New LightSail 2 spacecraft will boost solar-sailing interplanetary missions

LightSail 2, set to release no earlier than June 13, 2018, will show up to observers on the ground as it orbits Earth for a month or more.(Credit: The Planetary Society) A new solar-sailing spacecraft will be a call to all (future) residents of interplanetary craft. The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft will be a […]

Doomsday Clock reaches 2 minutes to midnight – closest point to nuclear annihilation since Cold War

(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) TheDoomsday Clock was proceeded Thursday to 2 minutes to midnight– marking the closest the symbolic point of international Armageddon that the clock represents has actually reached since 1953. CitingPresident Trump’s proactive rhetoric towards fellow international powers, North Korea’s continuing nuclear weapon and ballistic rocket tests and increased stress in between […]