Engineering
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SpaceX rockets evolve from near disasters to routine flights
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 15 — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, first launched in 2010, has logged over 300 successful…
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Space Race: Rocket Science, Orbital Mechanics, and Mission Planning
MANILA, July 15 — For communities across Asia watching the night sky, the science that put humans on…
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Key Players: Scientists, Engineers, Astronauts Who Made History
MOSCOW, July 15 — On the ground at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the ghosts of the Space Race still…
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Panama Canal Locks: Engineering a 110-Year-Old Water Elevator
PANAMA CITY, July 15 — The Panama Canal is one of those feats of engineering that seems almost…
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Transcontinental Railroad Unites Coast-to-Coast America in Record Time
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The first transcontinental railroad in the United States was built between 1863 and 1869.…
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Geosynchronous Orbit Faces New Risks and Mitigation Strategies
PARIS, July 14 — Against this backdrop of a rapidly filling orbital environment, the question of what happens…
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May 10, 1869: Golden Spike Unites Nation at Promontory Summit
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah Territory, May 10 — The final spike was driven here today, completing the first transcontinental…
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Sidney Loeb and Srinivasa Sourirajan: The Scientists Whose Reverse
LOS ANGELES, July 14 — The membranes that turn seawater into drinking water have a birthday worth noting.…
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Russia’s 1990s Znamya Space Mirror Experiments: Historical Precedents Analyzed
MOSCOW, July 14 — Against this backdrop of renewed interest in space-based solar reflection, a little-known chapter of…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Achieved First Orbital-Class Booster Landing In 2015
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 14 — When the first stage of a Falcon 9 booster settled onto the concrete…
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Rudolf Diesel’s 1893 “Rational Heat Motor” Patent Surpasses Steam Engines
AUGSBURG, July 13 — On paper, the patent looked like a theoretical exercise. In practice, it rewrote the…
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Rudolf Diesel’s 1893 Engine Revolutionized Global Industry
AUGSBURG, July 13 — The shift is hiding in plain sight, powering 90 percent of the world’s freight.…
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John L. Savage designed Hoover Dam and 60 other dams worldwide
WASHINGTON, July 11 — The strategic calculus of American water and power infrastructure owes a significant debt to…
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Hoover Dam and TVA tamed rivers, reshaped the American nation
BOULDER CITY, Nevada, July 11 — The Hoover Dam stands as a monument to a particular kind of…
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Babbage’s Engines: The Mechanical Origins of Modern Computing
LONDON, July 11 — Against the backdrop of the Science Museum in South Kensington, a gleaming brass-and-steel contraption…
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GPS Trilateration: Science of Satellite Signals Explained
WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Global Positioning System, the invisible architecture that guides everything from precision munitions to…
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China Unveils YF-100K Engine with 130-Ton Vacuum Thrust
BEIJING, July 10 — China’s most powerful domestically produced rocket engine is now ready for its first flight,…
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Long March 10B vs Falcon 9: Vertical Landing Design Compared
BEIJING, July 10 — On a launchpad in China, a rocket has just made history. The Long March…
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Engineering the Impossible: How the Panama Canal Was Built
PANAMA CITY, July 10 — The Panama Canal stands as one of the most audacious and strategically consequential…
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Jet Engine Pioneers Whittle and von Ohain’s Parallel Inventions
LONDON, July 10 — Against this backdrop of a century defined by speed, it is worth recalling that…
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Long March 10B: Payload, Costs, and Recovery Success Rate
BEIJING, July 10 — The numbers coming out of China’s Long March 10B program are the kind that…
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China Achieves Second Maritime Landing of Reusable Rocket Booster
BEIJING, July 10 — China has successfully landed a reusable orbital-class rocket booster on a barge in the…
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Long March 10B vs. Falcon 9: Reusable Rocket Tech Compared
NEW DELHI, July 10 — For years, India’s space ambitions have benchmarked against the Falcon 9, the reusable…
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China’s Long March 10B Recovery Rivals SpaceX, ISRO Rockets
BEIJING, July 10 — How do you catch a rocket that has just hurled itself toward space? The…
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