Tethers Unlimited to provide hardware for NASA’s PUNCH sun-watching mission
Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide key communications and propulsion capabilities to Southwest Research Institute in support of a NASA mission to study how the sun's corona whips up the solar wind. Tethers Unlimited's SWIFT-XTS software-defined radio will be used for telemetry and control of the four suitcase-sized microsatellites that will conduct a mission known...
Hope for pangolins as protection boosted in China
China has removed pangolins from its official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, reports...
NASA astronaut from historic spacewalk becomes first woman to reach deepest point in ocean
Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space is also the first woman to reach the deepest point in the...
US challenges planned expedition to retrieve Titanic's radio
The Atlanta-based salvage firm RMS Titanic Inc., said it would exhibit the telegraph while telling the stories of the operators who broadcast the sinking ship's distress calls. The U.S. filed its arguments with the same federal judge who ruled last month that the salvage firm could dive nearly 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) to recover the telegraph...
Planet's satellites aim for still sharper view of Earth
Some locations on Earth, such as the UK, will be pictured at high resolution up to 12 times a...
Britain goes coal free as renewables edge out fossil fuels
On Wednesday, Britain will mark two months without burning any coal to generate...