Tag: Space

  • 3D-printed telescope used on ISS

    The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare or INFN), a government funded research centre, has 3D-printed the entire mechanical structure of a first-of-its-kind cosmic UV telescope that’s currently operating from the International Space Station.

  • Walking on the moon:

    Walking on the moon: Congratulations are in order to the European Space Agency, which has succeeded in landing a small craft on a fast moving comet. Sort of. Unfortunately the two harpoons that are meant to hold the Philae lander on the surface failed to fire so it may be bounced off its precarious perch…