Matías S. Zavia

30 published news

December 2024

1. 22 December
2. SpaceX Rockets Are Creating Red Holes in the Atmosphere. Scientists Call Them ‘SpaceX Auroras’
3. 21 December
4. China Has Connected the World’s Largest Onshore Wind Turbine. It’s So Massive That It’s Changing the Local Microclimate
5. An ‘Ownerless’ Rocket That Many Believed Belonged to Elon Musk Crashed on the Moon in 2022. They Were Wrong
6. Intermittency Has Always Been a Problem With Wind and Solar. MIT Just Turned It Into an Advantage
7. 15 December
8. Perovskite Solar Panels Are Said to Be the Future of Energy. China Has Covered a Mountain With Them
9. 13 December
10. Electricity Prices in Germany Have Skyrocketed. The Reason: A Weather Phenomenon That Challenges Renewable Energy Suppliers
11. 12 December
12. Jeff Bezos Says Blue Origin Will Be Bigger Than Amazon. Its Rocket Needs to Successfully Lift Off First
13. 08 December
14. Many Companies Aspire to Be ‘China’s SpaceX,’ but Few Come Close. Here Are the Top Contenders
15. 05 December
16. A Mysterious Energy Pulse Repeats Every Three Hours On the Outskirts of the Milky Way. Astronomers Have Discovered Its Origin

November 2024

1. 25 November
2. A Nauseating Smell Has Permeated the ISS Following the Arrival of the Russian Progress MS-29 Spacecraft
3. 18 November
4. The Ruins of the Soviet Space Program in Kazakhstan Are in a Hangar That Embodies Both Death and Fascination
5. 15 November
6. Someone Has Moved the UK’s Oldest Satellite. No One Knows How or Why, But There’s One Suspect
7. 12 November
8. These Aren’t Impressionist Paintings, They’re the Latest Photos of Jupiter Taken by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
9. 09 November
10. SpaceX Puts the Pedal to the Metal: It Will Launch the Last Starship of the Current Generation in Less Than Two Weeks
11. 06 November
12. The Hubble and James Webb Telescopes Worked Together to Observe the Disk Around Star Vega. Something’s Not Right
13. New Material Revolutionizes Carbon Capture Technology: 200 Grams of It Can Absorb as Much Carbon Dioxide as a Tree
14. 04 November
15. After Elon Musk’s Starlink Left Europe at a Disadvantage, Officials Are Working on a Homegrown Solution: IRIS2
16. The Green Spot That Could Have Changed History: NASA Leaves Behind Its Best Clue to Past Life on Mars

October 2024

1. 30 October
2. It’s Alive! NASA Reestablishes Contact With Voyager 1 Thanks to a Transmitter That Was Last Used in 1981
3. 28 October
4. NASA Hasn’t Heard From Voyager 1 for a Week. The Spacecraft Is Currently Unreachable in Interstellar Space
5. 24 October
6. Geothermal Energy Is Gaining Momentum. One U.S. Plant Has the Capacity to Power Two Million Homes
7. The Euclid Telescope Is Creating the Largest Map of the Universe. It’s Already Produced 2 Million Megapixels, and It’s Only 1% Complete
8. 23 October
9. The James Webb Space Telescope Has Detected ‘Little Red Dots’ That Are Nearly as Old as the Big Bang. They Shouldn’t Exist
10. 22 October
11. A Boeing Satellite Exploded in Geostationary Orbit. Its 57 Fragments Will Float On for Thousands of Years in the Universe
12. SpaceX Is Asking for Permission to Position Starlink Satellites at Lower Altitudes. This Is the First Step Toward 1 Gbps Internet Connections
13. 18 October
14. NASA Received a Laser Signal From 290 Million Miles Away. This Marks the Start of a New Era in Interplanetary Communication
15. 17 October
16. Chinese Scientists Confirm That Covering a Desert With Solar Panels Positively Impacts the Ecosystem
17. 16 October
18. SpaceX Reveals the Cost of Developing Starship. The Question Is Where It Gets So Much Money From
19. 15 October
20. Super Heavy’s Successful Maneuver Changes Everything: SpaceX Goes From Being Years Ahead of the Industry to Being Unrivaled
21. 14 October
22. SpaceX Has Achieved What Seemed Impossible: Catching the Starship’s Booster on Its First Attempt