SpaceX celebrated a milestone that brings the firm’s Starship rocket one-step closer to Mars. CEO Elon Musk shared on Twitter that the Raptor engine did not explode after reaching a new high combustion chamber pressure during a controlled burn test. The engine, a crucial piece of the Starship rocket, hit a record breaker of 330 … Read more
A team of French firefighters were trapped in a hellish blaze as wildfires tore through 2,500 acres of forest this week. Footage showed the fire crew’s panic as they were stuck in their engine and surrounded by dramatic flames near the Mediterranean coast. As one fireman cries that he cannot get out, the driver activates … Read more
New junk rating spells engine trouble at Rolls-Royce: Demand for its services to fall further By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:58 BST, 27 July 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 27 July 2020 Rolls-Royce was dealt yet another blow as a second influential agency slashed its credit rating to ‘junk’ status. Moody’s made … Read more
Save the Children Patron The Princess Royal, has marked the end of Save the Children’s hugely successful Save With Stories initiative by reading ‘Thomas and the Royal Engine’. The video, which has been shared on Save the Children UK’s Instagram page, is the final installment of the fundraising initiative which has seen over 70 well-known … Read more
Four firefighters are treated in hospital and driver of Land Rover is cut free from the wreckage of his 4×4 after it collided with fire engine on emergency callout Five people, including four firefighters were taken to hospital after a collision A Land Rover crashed into a fire engine in Streatham, South London on Monday … Read more
A Polish website called PimEyes uses facial recognition to search the internet for pictures of a person based on a single image. That photo can be taken from a news site, social media, or an uploaded selfie, and the computer algorithm then shows matches on the web. The free part of service shows photos it … Read more
Michael Angelis dead aged 68: Long-term narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine series Thomas & Friends passes away at his home The actor, who hailed from Liverpool, narrated the classic children’s show from 1991 to 2012 after taking over the role from The Beatles icon Ringo Starr Michael was the longest serving narrator for the … Read more
A NASA engineer has claimed that getting a ‘running start’ would be the key to ensuring that a real-life, Star Trek-style warp engine is in drive, and not reverse. In Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity, our Universe comes with a speed limit — with nothing able to travel faster than the speed of light. … Read more
Engineering giant Rolls-Royce preparing to cut up to 8,000 jobs in jet engine business By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:57 BST, 2 May 2020 | Updated: 14:04 BST, 3 May 2020 Engineering giant Rolls-Royce is preparing to cut up to 8,000 jobs in its jet engine business. An insider said the company’s … Read more
SpaceX halts rocket launch at the LAST second before lift-off when its auto-abort computer detected an engine issue SpaceX was set to launch Falcon 9 with 60 Starlink satellites on Sunday The rocket’s software detected an engine problem and aborted the mission The technology shut off the engines just milliseconds before the rocket took off By Stacy … Read more