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California-based Rocket Lab has completed systems integration for its Photon spacecraft ahead of the upcoming LOXSAT mission with Eta Space and NASA. Designed to showcase in-orbit cryogenic refueling, the system will now complete environmental testing at Rocket Lab’s facility in Long Beach before launching atop an Electron rocket from New …

Rocket Labs has launched its Electron small launch vehicle over 60 times over the past seven years, and CEO Peter Beck has been talking up its viability as a direct competitor for the likes of SpaceX in the small satellite space. He claims that while other companies with larger rockets …

Engineering students at the University of Southern California (USC) have dramatically surpassed a 20-year-old world record for the highest altitude reached by an amateur rocket. Called Aftershock II, the suborbital spacecraft reached 470,000 feet in October, smashing the previous record by a whopping 90,000 feet.Aftershock II comes from the Rocket …

Right now the sweet spot for price and performance with SSDs is 1TB, as these drives are fast and affordable. That’s clearly not enough storage for some people though. (Definitely not – Ed) To answer the needs of those with projects as large as their bank accounts, Sabrent has announced …

An important test for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is slated to get underway (again). Earlier this year, NASA assembled the Artemis 1 SLS rocket and transported it to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. However, issues with fans on the tower and a valve in the rocket itself …

  Today, Intel is taking the wraps off Rocket Lake, formally launching its first new desktop microarchitectures since the launch of Skylake, 5.5 years ago. Our own review will be up later today, so consider this a sneak peek for what’s coming down the pipe. Rocket Lake retains the refined …

  Over the past few weeks, chatter has increased about Rocket Lake’s performance and corresponding benchmark leaks. We’ve seen a number of Geekbench results for various CPUs and written a few comparisons ourselves. Since the leaks keep coming, it seemed more helpful to round up expectations for RKL and how …

  NASA retired the Space Shuttle in 2011 and embarked on two projects that would eventually restore its access to space. There’s the Commercial Crew Program, which recently led to the SpaceX Dragon successfully transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The Space Launch System (SLS), which is …

  Many planetary scientists believe that Europa might be our best bet to find evidence of alien life in our own backyard. Although, it’s a big backyard, and the planned Europa Clipper mission needs a powerful rocket to reach the Jovian moon. Congress previously required that this mission launch on …

  This year, at the first-ever digital CES, Intel is announcing a slate of new processors across multiple product families. There are new updates coming for the budget Pentium Silver and Celeron families, new 11th Generation vPro and Evo vPro systems, upcoming eight-core Tiger Lake CPUs, new higher-end Tiger Lake …