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Titan

Podcast

OceanGate and Stockton Rush — the inside story, in his own words

by Todd Bishop on June 24, 2023June 24, 2023 at 9:30 am

“Our rule is, we risk capital — we don’t risk people.” That was a guiding principle for Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate, as described by its CEO, Stockton Rush, in a talk… Read More

Illustration: Flying boat in Titan's skies
Video

NASA provides funding for way-out space proposals, including a flying boat for Titan

by Alan Boyle on January 10, 2023January 10, 2023 at 2:31 pm

NASA says it’ll distribute up to $2.45 million to 14 teams in support of experimental projects that would be right at home in the pages of a science-fiction novel —… Read More

Video

NASA picks Dragonfly mission to send a nuclear drone to Saturnian moon Titan

by Alan Boyle on June 27, 2019September 11, 2019 at 10:52 am

NASA has chosen to commit up to $850 million to creating an interplanetary probe unlike any seen before: a rotor-equipped spacecraft that will fly through the smoggy atmosphere of Titan,… Read More

OceanGate CEO pilots submersible to 4,000-meter depth — to get set for Titanic dives in 2019

by Kurt Schlosser on December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm

OceanGate, the Everett, Wash.-based maker of crewed submersible vessels, reached a new milestone this week during a dive in the Bahamas. CEO Stockton Rush became just the second person in… Read More

Carolyn Porco
Video

Breakthrough Discuss turns spotlight on search for life elsewhere in solar system

by Alan Boyle on April 13, 2018September 13, 2020 at 11:15 am

STANFORD, Calif. — Are there microbes falling in the snows of Enceladus? Could a drone fly to biological hot spots on Titan? Is life floating in the sulfurous clouds of… Read More

Dragonfly probe

NASA picks a drone for Titan and a return to a comet as prospects for future probes

by Alan Boyle on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017 at 2:10 pm

A rotorcraft that could flit around the Saturnian moon Titan and a probe that could bring a sample back from an already-famous comet have emerged as top prospects for a… Read More

Cassini's end
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Cassini orbiter’s team turns Saturn crash into cause for celebration – and for science

by Alan Boyle on September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 at 4:10 am

Twenty years after its launch to Saturn, NASA has set the Cassini orbiter on a course for certain destruction on Friday – but there’s a decidedly positive spin to the… Read More

Apple reportedly gearing up to challenge Tesla with an electric minivan

by Blair Hanley Frank on February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 at 3:54 pm

According to new reports, Apple may be entering the electric car market with…a minivan. The Wall Street Journal wrote today that the company has hundreds of people working on a… Read More

Cray-Z speed: Meet the world’s fastest supercomputer from Seattle-based Cray

by Taylor Soper on November 12, 2012November 12, 2012 at 11:57 am

We wrote about the latest supercomputer creation from Seattle-based Cray a few weeks ago, and now it’s official: Titan is the world’s fastest computer. Titan, an open science computer located… Read More

Cray debuts Titan, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers

by Taylor Soper on October 29, 2012October 29, 2012 at 4:40 pm

The latest creation from Seattle-based Cray has a new name, a new update and possibly a new title: fastest supercomputer on the planet. Titan, an open science computer located at… Read More

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