Author: Daniel Tom

Fast paced head-spinning, and informative, Greatest Ever is a top ten count down of the marvels of modern technology. You may not agree, but you’ll be grabbed and not let go as our picks are put through their paces in front of our cameras. Pilot one of the most unique fighter jets ever made in…

The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is shown at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022. The unmanned U.S. military space plane landed early Saturday after spending a record 908 days in orbit for its sixth mission and conducting science experiments. The solar-powered vehicle, which looks like a miniature space…

  Captain Akira Tanaka thought of a decomposing carcass of a dead whale, in fact he ordered it thrown back into the sea before it infected the catch. The other fishermen weren’t so sure it was a whale and thought of a giant sea turtle with its shell off. Years later, various reconstructions of what…

The υпiverse is fυll of sυrprises, bυt two discoveries iп the oυter solar system are domiпatiпg astroпomy пews this week. First, astroпomers reported yesterday that they have foυпd a distaпt, tiпy world – a small, icy body that lives iп the darkпess far beyoпd the orbit of Neptυпe. Ϲalled 2012 VP113, the world’s existeпce challeпges…

Like loпely travelers waпderiпg across the vastпess of space. Α team of astroпomers from the Natioпal Αstroпomical Օbservatory of Japaп has jυst aппoυпced a rare aпd distυrbiпg discovery: a black hole the size of Jυpiter waпderiпg across the Milky Way galaxy. Kпowп black holes have differeпt categories accordiпg to their dimeпsioпs. The smallest Black Holes,…

The weather conditions were poor due to a nearby storm, but the KC-135 crew was able to extend the boom and make contact with the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. A KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft crew from the 171st Air Refueling Wing responded to an urgent request for fuel from a B-2 bomber on Oct. 25, 2022,…

Space weather experts at the NOAA have analyzed a stream of solar particles spewing from the south of the Sun. The experts revealed the solar wind is travelling at a staggering 500 kilometers per second, or 1.8 million kilometers per hour. Forecasters have stated the particles are currently voyaging the 150 million kilometre journey from the Sun, and could…

The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” is a long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. It was operated by both the United States Air Force (USAF) and NASA.   Just do a sr71a blackbird speed check! The SR-71 was developed as a black project from the Lockheed…

      The first of McDonnell Dauglas’s (Boeing from 1997) Hornet upgrade concepts to reach fruition is the F/A-18E Super Hornet. The first F/A-18E made its maiden flight in November 1995 and the first aircraft was formally accepted into service with VFA-122 on 15 January 1999. The avionics upgrade is centred on the Raytheon…

The asteroid, dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2019 BC3, will make a so-called “Earth Close Approach” tomorrow. NASA’s asteroid trackers have narrowed down the asteroid passage to 5.59pm GMT on Thursday, January 31. When this happens, Asteroid BC3 will swing by the Earth at incredible speeds of more than 29,500mph or 13.22km per second. Thankfully, there…