The No.31 Whelen Engineering Cadillac of Jack Aitken, Earl Bamber and Frederick Vesti have won the Battle on the Bricks in 2025 after a late FCY created a 2-lap shootout to end the race. The penultimate round of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship at Indianapolis Motor Speedway got underway at 11:40 local time, with Jack Aitken in the No.31 …
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The device operates like a 3D printer but replaces conventional heat sources with concentrated solar energy. A parabolic reflector gathers sunlight and channels it through fibre optic bundles, intensifying the light to more than 3,000 times the strength of sunlight at Earth’s surface. At the focal point, temperatures exceed 1,300°C, hot enough to melt regolith into solid, dense shapes. Tests …
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Chinese scientists have unveiled a solar-powered 3D printing device that transforms lunar regolith into durable bricks, potentially changing how humans will build on the Moon. The breakthrough, detailed in Acta Astronautica, showcases a method for creating construction materials entirely from Moon dust without importing resources from Earth. How the Device Works The system, developed at the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory …
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Both the U.S. and China have set their sights on the Moon, aiming to break ground on permanent lunar bases within the next decade. Though there’s no legal basis for claiming territory in space, whichever country gets there first will gain a coveted first-mover advantage, allowing it to set certain ground rules about who can do what, where. But getting …
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