👀🔭 Behold, the next generation of telescopes, capable of seeing everything except the irony in writing endless articles about them. 🚀🤦‍♂️ Ars Technica delivers another cosmic bore-fest, exploring tech so advanced, it might even spot their dwindling readership. 📉
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/tuesday-telescope-taking-a-look-at-the-next-generation-of-telescopes/ #nextgenTelescopes #ArsTechnica #cosmicTech #ironyInTech #dwindlingReadership #HackerNews #ngated

Boom goes supersonic with XB-1 jet’s flight test
Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator aircraft broke the sound barrier during a flight test today, becoming the first civilian jet plane to go supersonic in 22 years.

"Supersonic civil flight is back," Boom CEO Blake Scholl declared in a posting to X / Twitter.

XB-1 exceed
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/01/28/boom-goes-supersonic-with-xb-1-jets-flight-test/
#CosmicTech #Aerospace #Aviation #BoomTechnology #SupersonicTransport #Technology

Boom Supersonic gives its test plane a subsonic debut
After a decade of development, Boom Supersonic's XB-1 demonstrator jet took to the air today for the first in a series of test flights that will eventually lead beyond the sound barrier.

The flight at California's Mojave Air and Space Port achieved a top altitude o
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/03/22/boom-supersonic-gives-its-test-plane-a-subsonic-debut/
#CosmicTech #Aerospace #Aviation #BoomTechnology #SupersonicTransport #Technology

XPRIZE contest offers $5 million for quantum applications
Twenty years after staging its first competition for technological innovations, XPRIZE is offering $5 million to expand one of today's hottest tech frontiers: quantum computing.

The XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition is aimed at stimulating the development of quantum algorithms that c
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/03/05/xprize-contest-offers-5-million-for-quantum-applications/
#CosmicTech #QuantumComputing #Technology #XPrize

GoAERO Prize offers $2M for emergency vehicles that fly
A newly announced program called GoAERO is offering more than $2 million in prizes for the development of single-person flying vehicles that are customized for emergency responders --- four years after a similar competition ended without awarding its top prize.

The GoAERO Pri
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/02/08/goaero-prize-offers-2m-for-emergency-vehicles-that-fly/
#CosmicTech #Aviation #eVTOL #FlyingCars #GoAERO #GoFly #Technology

Super-quiet supersonic jet rolls out for a preview
Today's debut of NASA's X-59 low-boom supersonic jet brought not even a whisper of a sonic boom --- because it stayed on the ground at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, Calif.

But later this year, the long, pointy plane is due to test out technolo
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/01/12/super-quiet-supersonic-jet-rolls-out-for-a-preview/
#CosmicTech #Aerospace #Aviation #LockheedMartin #NASA #SupersonicTransport #Technology

Air Force picks its builders for a swoopy kind of aircraft
Get ready for another prototype airplane that looks as if it flew in from the world of science fiction.

The Department of the Air Force has selected JetZero's design for a prototype aircraft t
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/08/17/air-force-picks-its-builders-for-a-swoopy-kind-of-aircraft/
#CosmicTech #Aerospace #AirForce #Aviation #BoomTechnology #ElectricPropulsion #eVTOL #JetZero #RadianAerospace #SupersonicTransport #Technology

WiBotic unveils a pad that can manage drones on its own
Seattle-based WiBotic has made a name for itself with battery charging stations for drones as well as for ground-based robots, and now its best-known charger is getting smarter.

WiBotic's PowerPad Pro can bring in any type of drone for autonomous charging --- without needing a human op
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/05/04/wibotic-unveils-a-pad-that-can-manage-drones-on-its-own/
#CosmicTech #AutonomousFlight #Drones #WiBotic #Wireless

IBM marks medical milestone for quantum computers
IBM and Cleveland Clinic today unveiled the first quantum computer dedicated solely to research in health care and life sciences --- a sleek cube of glass and metal that's likely to generate sci-fi movie concepts for years to come.

Researchers also hope IBM Quantum System One will e
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/03/20/ibm-marks-medical-milestone-for-quantum-computers/
#CosmicTech #ClevelandClinic #Health #IBM #QuantumComputing #Technology

German robotics team wins Avatar XPRIZE showdown
Robotic life imitated art this weekend at a telepresence contest in California, and Germany's Team NimbRo is $5 million richer as a result. The payoff came at the end of the $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition in Long Beach, sponsored by Japan's All Nippon Airways and organized by the XPRIZE
https://cosmiclog.com/2022/11/06/german-robotics-team-wins-avatar-xprize-showdown/
#CosmicTech #NimbRo #Robots #Technology #Telepresence #XPrize