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NASA just turned a retired Boeing 777 into the largest flying lab ever built, capable of carrying 100 scientists at once

A former Japan Airlines Boeing 777 has been turned into a high-capacity flying lab by NASA, giving the agency a serious ...
FLYING Magazine

Modified Boeing 777 Will Become NASA’s Largest Flying Science Lab

A heavily modified Boeing 777 -200ER formerly operated by Japan Air Lines will soon become NASA’s largest flying science ...
The Debrief

NASA Tests Prototype ‘Magnetoplasmadynamic’ Electric Propulsion Thruster Designed to Power Future Trips to Mars

NASA announced a successful test of a sci-fi-sounding lithium metal vapor electric thruster propulsion system that could ...
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NASA once rejected the sensor technology that is now in every smartphone camera

Image: Tech Transfer HQ CMOS sensors are now so ordinary that it's easy to forget how transformative they were. They're used ...

NASA's lithium-fed electric thruster could carry humans to Mars and beyond

Inside a long vacuum chamber in Southern California, a spacecraft engine glowed white-hot as it pushed toward a level of ...

NASA tests high-powered thruster that could send humans to Mars

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed a new thruster that increases power 25 times stronger than ...
autoevolution

NASA’s Largest Airborne Laboratory Will Fly Its First Mission in Early 2027

The first time the plane is expected to take to the sky is January 2027, when it will be part of a mission called North ...

NASA takes early delivery of next-gen flying laboratory

Delivered five weeks ahead of schedule in partnership with aviation services provider Yulista, the aircraft, a converted ...
ExtremeTech

NASA Tests New Electric Thruster, Finds It Could Power Crewed Mars Mission

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.