Passant Rabie

New York

News Reporter at Gizmodo

Award-winning journalist with an interest in space, rockets, and lasers. The Beyoncé of astrophysics. Space Reporter at Gizmodo [email protected]

Articles

Rogue Pulsar Snaps Galactic Bone in Milky Way’s Spine

5 days ago | technewstube.com | Passant Rabie

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Rogue Pulsar Snaps Galactic Bone in Milky Way’s Spine

5 days ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

A galactic filament that stretches across 230 light-years in the Milky Way has suffered from a strange kink that has distorted its magnetic field, appearing as a fracture in a massive bone. New X-ray images captured by the Chandra Observatory may have finally helped astronomers diagnose its ailment, naming a fast-spinning neutron star as the culprit. The center of the galaxy is marked by enormous, bone-like structures threaded with parallel magnetic fields and swirling, high-energy particles.
NASA Has a Badass Moon Rover but No Way to Get It to the Moon

5 days ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

NASA’s VIPER is designed to search for water ice around the Moon’s south pole. But instead of exploring the lunar terrain, the fully assembled four-wheeled robot is in storage at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. After canceling its VIPER mission last year, NASA is still searching for alternatives to launch its lunar rover, and the agency just took another step backward in making it happen.
NASA May Accelerate Mars Mission Timeline Following Trump Budget Proposal

6 days ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week after the U.S. administration released its proposed budget for the agency, which emphasizes the national goal of landing a human on Mars.
Pentagon's Hypersonic Drone Hits Mach 5 in Record-Breaking Tests

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

A California-based startup pulled off two hypersonic flights of its reusable aircraft, which became the first fully autonomous drone to reach Mach 5 speeds. Stratolaunchâ€™s Talon-A2 completed a series of test flights for the Pentagonâ€™s Missile Defense Agency, part of a hypersonic testbed program that echoes Cold War-era efforts like the X-15, which retired in 1968.
Pentagon’s Hypersonic Drone Hits Mach 5 in Record-Breaking Tests

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Passant Rabie

Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
53-Year-Old Soviet Spacecraft Will Plummet Back to Earth This Week

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

Kosmos 482 has been trapped in Earth’s orbit for 53 years but its wandering journey is coming to an end. The failed Venus mission is expected to reenter through the atmosphere in a dramatic fall toward its home planet, where it may remain intact or scatter its bits across a still unknown location on either side of the equator. The Soviet-era spacecraft will plunge through Earth’s atmosphere sometime between May 8 to 12.
Musk Believed a Sniper Took Out a Falcon 9 Rocket in 2016, Report Claims

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

In 2016, a Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a wet dress rehearsal, creating a massive ball of fire that destroyed an onboard satellite. The reason for the eruption was unclear at first, leading to one of the wildest theories in spaceflight history that apparently got the feds involved. In Reentry, a book about the early years of SpaceX, veteran space reporter Eric Berger explores the details of the Falcon 9 anomaly.
Musk Got His Company Town-Starbase City Is Official

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Passant Rabie

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Musk Got His Company Town-Starbase City Is Official

1 week ago | gizmodo.com | Passant Rabie

It’s official: SpaceX has its own company town on the southern tip of Texas despite concerns that it would expand the company’s control of the area. Residents living near SpaceX’s launch site, the majority of whom are company employees, voted in favor of turning Starbase into its own city. It was a sweeping win for SpaceX, with 212 voting in favor of the rocket city and six against, according to the Cameron County Elections Department.