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Mars helicopter Ingenuity goes faster and farther than ever on 4th flight

After proving powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter has new orders: scout ahead of the Perseverance rover to assist in its search for past signs of microbial life. The next phase extends the rotocraft’s mission beyond the original month-long technology demonstration. Now, the goal is to assess how well flyers can help future exploration of Mars and other worlds. “We’re going to gather information on the operational support capability of the helicopter while Perseverance focuses on its science mission,” Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, told reporters Friday. The type of…

Russia is withdrawing from the ISS, will create their own in 2025

Russia announced its withdrawal from the International Space Station (ISS) project from January 2025 and set up its own ISS, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said during the course of a TV interview. In place of ISS, the Russian space industry would gain ROSS – a new orbital station that’s name stands for Russian Orbital Service Station. Currently, the ISS is a collaborative project between the U.S.’ NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos. The ISS sometimes hosts astronauts from other countries as well. In 2019-20, the ISS was hit by several issues including a crack and air-leak noticed in October 2020. According…

A broken 12.9-Inch M1 iPad Pro will set you back by $699 if you don’t have AppleCare+

The latest 2021 iPad Pro series is an example of the pinnacle of advanced engineering, but that will also be the reason you have to pay a hefty sum to repair it, assuming you do not have AppleCare+ purchased. .If you don’t have AppleCare+ for the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro, the company can charge you $699. This also happens to be the starting price of the iPhone 12 Mini in the US. The fee update was added to Apple’s iPad Service and Repair chart earlier today after ‌iPad Pro‌ orders went live. At $699, it is $50 more expensive to…

AMD in an earnings call promised to ramp up production of RX6000 GPUs throughout 2021

Last year, AMD finally released a family of graphics processors that can compete against Nvidia’s high-end offerings in terms of performance. Unfortunately, AMD could not meet demand for new GPUs. But apparently there is light at the end of the tunnel as AMD is ramping up production.In their latest earnings call, AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, promised to ramp up production of the AMD Radeon RX 6000 RDNA 2 Gaming graphics cards. The RDNA 2 powered gaming graphics cards from AMD have been in short supply ever since they launched. Both AMD and NVIDIA have been facing severe supply issues…

Researchers found the main factor limiting solar cell performance: Hydrogen in Hydrogen Perovskites

Researchers in the materials department in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering have uncovered a major cause of limitations to efficiency in a new generation of solar cells. Various possible defects in the lattice of what are known as hybrid perovskites had previously been considered as the potential cause of such limitations, but it was assumed that the organic molecules (the components responsible for the “hybrid” moniker) would remain intact. Cutting-edge computations have now revealed that missing hydrogen atoms in these molecules can cause massive efficiency losses. The findings are published in a paper titled “Minimizing hydrogen vacancies to enable…