A gif showing a yellow-wrapped spacecraft with solar-panel wings in space. Just outside Hiroya Yamaguchi’s office is a blackboard crowded with exploded stars, spaceship schematics and spectral lines. The A4 printouts obscure almost all the free space, except for a tiny corner where he sometimes scribbles in white chalk. Right now, Yamaguchi, an associate professor […]
Pod Bay Door Astronomers are excited to glean new insights into the formation of the universe and dark matter with the help of a space telescope called the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a partnership between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA. The telescope was successfully launched in September 2023. But as […]
An RAF plane carrying UK defence secretary Grant Shapps had its GPS signal jammed while flying near Russian territory. The satellite signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes while the flight was heading back to the UK from Poland, it is understood. It happened near Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic, on Wednesday. […]
LONDON (AP) — A plane carrying British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps had its satellite signal jammed as it flew near Russian territory, the government said Thursday. The government said the Royal Air Force jet carrying Shapps, officials and journalists “temporarily experienced GPS jamming when they flew close to Kaliningrad” on a flight from Poland to […]
Content warning: This story contains graphic details. A man accused of beating an unhoused San Luis Obispo resident to death and jamming sticks into his body did so in self-defense, his attorney argued in opening statements Thursday. But the San Luis Obispo District Attorney’s Office claims the crime was murder. Marco Cota, 45, is accused […]