Aerospace & Spaceflight Musk Wants a Million Satellites to Compute in Sunlight Engineers See the Bottlenecks David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 “The satellites will actually be so far apart that it will be hard to see from one to another,” this…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Perseverance’s AI Waypoints Put Rover Driving Through a New Safety Pipeline Stephen WallaceJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 “This demonstration shows how far our capabilities have advanced and broadens how we will explore other worlds,” said NASA Administrator…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Artemis II will fly farther than Apollo ever did, and the cabin details matter David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 There is no quick way home What does it take to launch people beyond Earth orbit the first time since…
Mechanical Design & Robotics Knee-like rolling joints cut alignment error by 99.6% and let small grippers carry 3.5× more Jonathan BarrettJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 Robots do not fail very often, except when the motors used are too small; the joints use the energy wastefully….
Aerospace & Spaceflight Space-based AI data centers would demand an industrial launch cadence, not just bigger chips David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 A million satellites is a software problem until it becomes an arithmetic problem and then manufacturing problem and logistics problem…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Too many satellites now leave operators only days to prevent a chain collision David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 How congested must the low-Earth orbit become, before “traffic” is a real engineering issue? The connectivity of the world is…
Aerospace & Spaceflight Investors may price “AI in orbit,” but Starlink’s day job carries the real constraints David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 Does a company make its sale of the idea of orbital data centres without the satellites already there in the…
Automotive Engineering The hidden bumper covers that decide how safely a car gets moved or “sees” ahead Thomas CaldwellJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 The difference between a controlled recovery and a shattered front bumper with a ripped out harness behind it can be…
Aerospace & Spaceflight How SR-71 Crews “Beat the Sun” and what it cost to fly that fast David WhitakerJune 9, 2026June 9, 20260 How come that an airplane can get to Friday night in California when it was flying on Saturday morning in…