NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California re-established contact with the spacecraft on October 24. The spacecraft, which is in interstellar space over 15 billion […]
Israel’s ‘Iron Beam’, designed to use high-power laser to down projectiles, will be operational within a year, according to reports. The laser defense system will complement the country’s Iron Dome and other defense systems, heralding in a “new era of warfare”, the Israeli defence ministry said. Costing Israel over $500 million, the Iron Beam will […]
Rescuers raised the death toll in Spain’s worst floods for a generation to 205 on Friday and fears grew for the dozens missing as hopes of finding survivors faded. The floods that have tossed vehicles, collapsed bridges and covered towns with mud since Tuesday are the European country’s deadliest such disaster in decades. The organisation […]