It is inevitable. Spaceflight hardware tests sometimes lead to explosive results. In the most recent example, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin recently completed a successful blast test of the company’s under-scale inflatable space module. The test was conducted at the Lockheed facility in Denver, Colorado on June 14 on the same test rig used for the … Read more
The gray side of a metal test rig curves up like a bad elbow from the bottom right. It is the profile of what remains of the test bed of the historic Titan rocket. In the center of the image, a cloud of smoke rises from the ground as debris blankets the surrounding air. Two … Read more
A new unpublished study is causing an internet sensation by claiming that one of the brightest stars in the night sky could die in a spectacular explosion in our lifetime. The study, currently available on the onlinearXiv prepress server, hypothesizes that the red giant star Betelgeusethe left shoulder of the constellation Orion also known as … Read more
