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The Galaxy S22 will use plastic from recycled fishing nets

February 7, 2022
The Galaxy S22 has leaked extensively, but there’s only so much you can tell from renders. For example, it turns out that Samsung has created a “new material” to use in the product — one made from the plastic in discarded fishing nets. Samsung says it’ll soon “incorporate repurposed ocean-bound plastics” across its whole product lineup, and the first example will be the Galaxy…
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Elon Musk’s first Starship update in two years is next week

February 4, 2022
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced plans to give an update on his company’s next-generation Starship rocket next Thursday evening. The presentation will come more than two years after Musk’s last update on the vehicle in 2019. Starship is the massive new deep-space rocket that SpaceX has been developing at the company’s test facility in Boca Chica, Texas, for the last few years. The fully…
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SpaceX planning to launch up to 52 missions in 2022

January 28, 2022
Commercial space company SpaceX plans to launch a whopping 52 flights in 2022, a NASA safety panel revealed today during a meeting. If successful, it would be the most launches the company has ever conducted in a single year, with its previous record last year at 31…
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Caltech Names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL

January 28, 2022
. Caltech Names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL The distinguished geochemist and space scientist brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in academic and government service to JPL. Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester…
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NASA’s MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought

January 27, 2022
. NASA’s MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago. Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life. As the planet’s…
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NASA’s revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope reaches final orbit in space

January 24, 2022
After traveling hundreds of thousands of miles through space over the last month, NASA’s revolutionary new James Webb Space Telescope performed its last big course correction maneuver this afternoon, putting itself into its final resting place in space. Now, the observatory will live in perpetuity at a distance of roughly 1 million miles from the Earth, giving the vehicle a front-row view of the…
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