NASA Built A Computer For Artemis II That Can't Fail, Here's The Engineering Behind It

When the Artemis II four-person crew left Earth’s orbit, they were protected by a computing system designed to move beyond simple redundancy (a la the Apollo missions) to a fail-silent architecture.

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly

Some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. The Artemis II mission will reenter the Earth’s atmosphere ...
Communications of the ACM

How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

The computer system aboard the current Artemis II lunar space mission is from a different world that the one from the Apollo ...
FLYING Magazine

Planning to Watch an Electric Air Taxi Flight? So Are ‘4D’ Models

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi prototypes are only just beginning to fly in the U.S. National ...

Artemis mission shares office space—and physics—with Apollo

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge ...

LaGuardia crash bolsters case for using AI in air control towers

Inside a mock control tower next to Hong Kong International Airport, a virtual near-miss plays out on multi-panel screens. A passenger jet descends in the computer-generated sky, seconds away from ...

How The US Air Force Is Training Its Missile-Dodging AI 'Pilots'

The USAF is increasing the AI capabilities of some of its aircraft. In simulations, modified F-16s are being trained how to dodge enemy attacks.
Morning Overview on MSN

ZX Spectrum with 48KB RAM pulls off a Kerbal moon landing

YouTuber and orbital mechanics expert Scott Manley has successfully landed a virtual Kerbal astronaut on the Mun, the in-game moon of Kerbal Space Program, using a ZX Spectrum home computer equipped ...
TweakTown

MOZA expands its Flight Simulation hardware in a big way with its new cockpit lineup

TL;DR: MOZA Racing has expanded its Flight Simulation Ecosystem with four new modular cockpit products, including the MA3F Electronic Flight Control Module, MA3F Flight Computer Display, MGX1000 ...
Wired

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...
Geeky Gadgets

Jetson ONE Personal eVTOL Demonstrated Flying Along the Coastline.

The Jetson ONE is an electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) aircraft designed to make personal flight more accessible and practical. With a lightweight frame made from aluminum and carbon fiber ...
USA Today

Miss your flight after abnormally long TSA line? Don't expect a refund

Nearly a month into a partial government shutdown that leaves Transportation Security Administration agents unpaid, the lines at airport security are getting longer and longer. At major airports ...