Matías S. Zavia

Matías S. Zavia

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Aerospace and energy industries journalist. LinkedIn

121 published news

December 2024

  1. 03 December
  2. Voyager 1 Successfully Resumes Communication With Earth Thanks to NASA’s Latest Rescue Efforts

November 2024

  1. 29 November
  2. Starship’s Heat Shield Has Fallen Short. Elon Musk Is Already Considering Going Back to a Scrapped Design
  3. 22 November
  4. As Energy Prices Rise in California, Utility Companies Point to Roofs and Blame Solar Panels
  5. Astronomers Capture a Close-Up Image of a Star Outside of Our Galaxy for the First Time in History
  6. 21 November
  7. Starship’s Sixth Flight Has Proven One Thing: Elon Musk Made the Right Decision in 2018
  8. 20 November
  9. Elon Musk Is Ready to Colonize Mars. His Chosen Form of Government: A Direct Democracy, With Some Nuances
  10. 18 November
  11. Wind Used to Be the Darling of Renewables, But There’s a New Source on the Block: Solar Has Overtaken Wind in Record Time in the U.S.
  12. There’s a Backup Plan to Reverse Global Warming: Launching Diamonds Into Space. But It’ll Cost More Than $200 Billion
  13. 17 November
  14. Iceland Pulls Ahead of the Crowd in the Race to Put Solar Panels in Space
  15. 15 November
  16. Everything Is Ready for Starship’s Sixth Launch: SpaceX Will Push the Spacecraft to the Limit With Multiple Re-entry Modifications
  17. Artemis Faces Crisis as Rumors of SLS Cancellation Swirl and NASA Remains Silent on Orion Shield Issues
  18. 08 November
  19. China’s Einstein Probe Spots Extremely Bright Blinking Object. It May Have Discovered a New Transient Event
  20. 06 November
  21. Amazon Planned to Connect Its New Data Center to a Nuclear Power Plant. Regulators Had Other Plans

October 2024

  1. 31 October
  2. The Perseverance Rover Is Emerging From the Martian Crater Where It Landed for the First Time. The Views Are Breathtaking
  3. 29 October
  4. After the Starliner Fiasco, Boeing Reportedly Looks to Sell Off Parts of Its Struggling Space Division
  5. A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
  6. 25 October
  7. The Pentagon Has Its Eyes on a Company That Wants to Install Thousands of Solar Panels in a Place With Constant Sunlight: Space
  8. 22 October
  9. Elon Musk Says the Government Asked SpaceX to ‘Kidnap’ Two Seals to See if They Would Experience Stress From Rocket Launches
  10. 21 October
  11. France Has a Striking Plan to Recycle Some of Its Nuclear Waste: Turn It Into Forks, Doorknobs, and Saucepans
  12. 18 October
  13. SpaceX Is Replacing Boeing: NASA Cancels Starliner Spacecraft Flight Contracted for 2025
  14. After Years of Waiting, NASA Has Finally Unveiled the Spacesuit for Its Moon Return. It Features an Unexpected Collaborator: Prada
  15. 16 October
  16. The U.S. Has Produced Its First Plutonium Pit Since 1989. The Goal: Refurbishing All Its Nuclear Warheads
  17. 15 October
  18. After 20 Years of Waiting, NASA Has Successfully Launched One of the Largest Spacecraft in History. Its Mission: Searching for Life on Europa
  19. 14 October
  20. There’s Video Proof That Starship Successfully Landed at Its Target Location Before Exploding
  21. 11 October
  22. SpaceX Leaves Rivals Speechless With the First Successful Landing of the Starship With ‘Half a Centimeter Accuracy’
  23. 10 October
  24. Scientists Thought the Milky Way Was Part of Laniakea. It Turns Out That an Even Larger Superstructure Controls Its Movements
  25. 09 October
  26. SpaceX Always Gets What It Wants: The FAA Has Moved Up Its Most Controversial Starship Launch to This Sunday
  27. 04 October
  28. Boeing’s Last Hope in Space: If the Vulcan Rocket Is Successful, It’ll Have a Chance to Compete With SpaceX
  29. 02 October
  30. A New Problem in the Falcon 9 Rocket Has Paralyzed SpaceX Launches at the Worst Possible Time
  31. Elon Musk Says All of the World’s Energy Will Come From Solar Panels Once People Understand the ‘Kardashev Scale’
  32. 01 October
  33. Minnesota Installed Solar Panels on Two Large Fields. Five Years Later, They’re a Haven for Bees
  34. Too Much of a Good Thing? The Amount of Solar Panels in Australia Almost Caused the Country's Electric Grid to Collapse

September 2024

  1. 30 September
  2. As China Makes Progress, NASA Is Facing Several Challenges in Its Efforts to Return to the Moon. Tensions Are Rising
  3. 28 September
  4. China Scientists Have Solved the Biggest Issue of Silicon Solar Panels by Creating One That’s 100% Recycled
  5. Oxford University Researchers Have Created an Ultra-Thin Perovskite Film That Can Turn Any Object Into a Solar Panel
  6. 26 September
  7. The Spacecraft That Will Rescue Boeing Astronauts Is Prepared for Liftoff. With It, SpaceX Will Debut a New Launch Tower
  8. 25 September
  9. China Plans to House 5,000 Scientists Worldwide to Its Upcoming Lunar Base. The First Arrivals Are Scheduled for 2035
  10. 23 September
  11. Microsoft Will Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant That Has Been Closed Since 2019 to Power Its AI
  12. Elon Musk’s Warning to the U.S. Government Is True: China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship
  13. 22 September
  14. NASA Manages to Get Voyager 1 to Switch On Its Inactive Engines for the First Time in Decades, Ensuring the Spacecraft Lives to See Another Day
  15. 20 September
  16. An Italian Winery Installed Solar Panels in Its Vineyards and Made an Unexpected Discovery: They Improve the Quality of Wine
  17. 19 September
  18. NASA Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Spiders on Mars. It Recreated Them on Earth
  19. 18 September
  20. A Million Miles Without Refueling: Why No One Is Making Cars Out of Thorium, the World’s ‘Most Powerful Fuel’
  21. 17 September
  22. Scientists Have Been Searching for Planet Nine for Years. More Than 3,000 New Simulations Suggest That It’s Not a Planet and Never Was
  23. 15 September
  24. Bill Gates Is Building the 'Most Advanced Nuclear Facility in the World' in a Small Wyoming Town of 2,000 People
  25. 13 September
  26. A Billionaire Has Just Ventured Into Territory Previously Explored Only by NASA. It’s a Warning About What the Future of Space Exploration May Hold
  27. 12 September
  28. Polaris Dawn Is a Success: SpaceX’s First Commercial Spacewalk Is Game-Changing
  29. 10 September
  30. SpaceX Makes History Again With Polaris Dawn. It Launched Four Civilians Into the Van Allen Radiation Belt
  31. 09 September
  32. A Bittersweet Ending for Boeing’s Starliner: Its Return Flight Was Nearly Perfect, Except for a Few New Issues
  33. An Ode to The World’s Unluckiest Astronaut: He Trained for 14 Years to Go Into Space, Only to Be Replaced by an Actress
  34. 05 September
  35. Elon Musk’s Starship Opened an Unprecedented Hole in the Ionosphere, Russian Researchers Say
  36. 03 September
  37. NASA Has Successfully Stopped the ‘Strange Noise’ Coming From Starliner’s Loudspeaker. The Spacecraft Is Set to Return to Earth Soon
  38. 02 September
  39. Starliner Has a Plan to Return to Earth: If It Fails to Land in the Desert, Boeing Will Probably Never Fly Again
  40. Do Fridge Magnets Increase Energy Consumption? Here’s What Manufacturers Say

August 2024

  1. 31 August
  2. Cobalt Is Responsible for the High Cost of Batteries. Japanese Scientists Have Discovered a More Cost-Effective Alternative
  3. ESA and NASA Sent Two Spacecraft to the Sun. Together, They Successfully Solved a Long-Standing Puzzle: Why Solar Wind Doesn’t Cool Down
  4. 30 August
  5. SpaceX’s Riskiest Flight Is Set to Launch Soon: How to Watch the Polaris Dawn Mission Live
  6. 29 August
  7. U.S. Temporarily Halts SpaceX Flights. The Reason: A Failed Landing After 267 Successful Trips
  8. 27 August
  9. The Starliner Spacecraft Isn’t Just a Big Embarrassment: It’s Become a Huge Financial Loss for Boeing

July 2024

  1. 17 July
  2. We Have Two Hours to Protect the Electric Grid From an Extreme Solar Storm. The Recent Auroras Prove It
  3. 12 July
  4. China Is Reinforcing Its Space Station Against Potential Impacts Following the Explosion of a Russian Satellite
  5. 11 July
  6. The James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a Blue Planet With Various Problems. The Weirdest One: It Smells Like Rotten Eggs
  7. 10 July
  8. NASA Has Discovered X-Shaped Structures in the Ionosphere That Scientists Are Struggling to Explain
  9. 09 July
  10. After Invading Ukraine, Russia Threatened to Move to Its Own Space Station. It Just Approved Its Launch
  11. 'Everything That Could Go Wrong Went Wrong.' After Four Years, ESA’s Finally Ready to Launch the Ariane 6 Rocket
  12. 07 July
  13. The Webb Telescope Has Observed a Planet With Weather So Extreme That Clouds Are Made of Rock and Nights Reach 1112 Degrees Fahrenheit
  14. 04 July
  15. The Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Failed Before It Was Ever Turned On. ITER Will Need a Decade to Implement Changes
  16. 03 July
  17. Space Pioneer Was Once Called 'China's SpaceX.' It Just Mistakenly Launched a Rocket Near a Big City
  18. 02 July
  19. Scientists Had Theories About the Origin of the Moon. Now, Samples Taken by a Chinese Satellite Have Cast Doubt on Them
  20. The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power

June 2024

  1. 28 June
  2. Astronauts on the ISS Had to Take Shelter After a Huge Russian Satellite Broke Into 100 Pieces for Unknown Reasons
  3. NASA's Perseverance Rover Hasn’t Just Collected Rocks on Mars: Its Tubes Contain Another Valuable Sample
  4. 27 June
  5. SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station—at NASA’s Request
  6. 26 June
  7. Europe Has Installed So Many Renewable Energy Sources That It Now Faces an Unusual Problem: Electricity Is Now Too Cheap
  8. It's Not a Mistake: China Continues to Endanger People by Allowing Rockets to Fall From the Sky After Completing Their Missions
  9. 23 June
  10. France Connected Its First Solar Panels to the Grid in 1992. Three Decades Later, They Still Have an Astonishing Power Output
  11. 21 June
  12. Japan Is at the Forefront of Efforts to Clean Up Space Trash. It Just Deployed a 'Space Garbage Truck' Next to an Old Rocket
  13. For the First Time in History, Astronomers Are Seeing a Black Hole Waking Up in Real-Time
  14. Scientists Have Been Trying to Understand This Star for 50 Years. The Webb Telescope Figured It Out Quickly: It Wasn’t a Star
  15. 20 June
  16. NASA Continues to Deliver Bad News for Artemis, Its Mission to the Moon: Now There's a Problem With the Sun
  17. 19 June
  18. The New Energy Era Is Here: Seven Chinese Solar Companies Now Produce More Capacity Than Oil Companies
  19. 17 June
  20. NASA Will Send Two Astronauts on a Spacewalk Outside the ISS to Search for Living Organisms
  21. The Day Jeff Bezos Came Across the Coordinates of the Apollo 11 Rocket Crash Site Online and Went to Go Look for It
  22. 14 June
  23. A SpaceX Flight That Only Lasted for Three Days Brought Its Astronauts Back Genetically Younger
  24. 13 June
  25. The ISS Said an Astronaut Was in 'Critical Condition' on Its Radio. It Forgot to Say It Was a Drill
  26. Boeing Stated That Starliner Could Safely Withstand Up to Five Helium Leaks. It Just Found the Fifth One
  27. 12 June
  28. After the Latest Launch, Elon Musk Is Convinced That Starship Will Reach Mars in 3 Years. How Realistic Is It?
  29. The First Diamond Solar Panels Have Introduced a Material That Surpasses the Limitations of Photovoltaic Systems
  30. Starship Has 9 Months to Complete NASA's Lunar Contract. Against All Odds, SpaceX Believes It’s Doable
  31. 10 June
  32. Spaceflights Have Always Experienced Radio Outages During Re-entry. Starlink Has Now Made Them Obsolete
  33. Elon Musk Made the Right Call When He Decided to Scrap Starship's Carbon Fiber Exterior and Replace It With Steel
  34. 07 June
  35. Boeing’s Starliner Successfully Transported Astronauts to the ISS Despite Having Five of Its Thrusters Fail
  36. SpaceX Has Just Left Its Competition in the Dust: Starship Is One Step Away From Becoming a 100% Reusable Rocket
  37. 06 June
  38. Starship Successfully Completes Fourth Flight. SpaceX Celebrates That It Didn't Explode
  39. Boeing Identifies Two Leaks on the Starliner, Which Has Astronauts Onboard Headed to the Space Station
  40. What To Expect From Starship’s Fourth Launch: Here’s Everything SpaceX Will Test for the First Time in Today's Flight
  41. 05 June
  42. A Red Supergiant and the Solstice Moon: The Two Biggest Night Sky Events for June
  43. 04 June
  44. Two Days Before Starship’s Next Launch, Elon Musk Remains Worried: ‘We Are Not Resilient to Loss of a Single Tile’

May 2024

  1. 31 May
  2. SpaceX Has Realized That Starship Is Too Heavy to Land, So It’s Going to Try Something New in a Few Days
  3. 29 May
  4. A Historic Milestone in Power Generation: Renewables Have Reduced the Use of Fossil Fuels for the First Time
  5. 28 May
  6. NASA Had Two Major Short-Term Goals, but China Is Threatening to Beat Them Both
  7. For the First Time Since the 1970s, It’s Not Clear if the U.S. Can Actually Send Astronauts to the Moon
  8. 25 May
  9. A Coal Billionaire Is Building the World’s Largest Renewable Energy Farm
  10. 24 May
  11. The Electrical Grid is Suffering: Not Because of Electric Cars, but Rather Because of the Huge AI Demand
  12. 23 May
  13. SpaceX Has Just Made the First Video Call With an iPhone Connected Directly to a Starlink Satellite
  14. 22 May
  15. The North Pole Is Moving So Fast, It's Forcing Many Airports to Rename Their Runways
  16. NASA Has Sent a Spacecraft to Observe a Dead Robot on Mars to See How It Collects Dust
  17. 21 May
  18. Six Months Later, Voyager 1 Is Finally Sending Back Scientific Data After NASA Completes Historic Rescue
  19. 20 May
  20. Viral Video of Fiery Object Wasn't Actually a Meteorite, European Space Agency Says
  21. 18 May
  22. California Has Defeated the Sun: 20% of the Power It Uses at Night Comes From Solar Panels
  23. 17 May
  24. This American Lake Is Actually One of the Largest Batteries in the World
  25. 16 May
  26. Sunspot AR 3664 Has Grown as Large as the One That Caused the Carrington Event 165 Years Ago
  27. 15 May
  28. Elon Musk Reveals Details About Starship’s Next Flight. It’s Not Good News for Those With Little Patience
  29. How and When to See Comet A3 As It Passes By Earth (and Possibly Its Live Disintegration)
  30. 14 May
  31. A Family of Farmers Found Carbon Fiber Debris on Their Land. It Turned Out to Be Part of a Spacecraft
  32. 13 May
  33. Latest Images From Dark Energy Camera Show 'God’s Hand' Trying to Catch a Nearby Galaxy
  34. 09 May
  35. Japanese Researchers Have Found the Holy Grial to Produce Cheaper, More Effective Green Hydrogen
  36. 08 May
  37. There's Something Strange About China's New Moon Base Concept Video
  38. 07 May
  39. Caltech Researchers Find ‘Strongest Evidence Yet’ of an Unknown Planet in Our Solar System
  40. 05 May
  41. Californians Installed Too Many Solar Panels. It's Causing a Problem for Their Electrical Grid
  42. No More Gibberish: NASA Makes Progress on Fixing Its Voyager 1 Spacecraft After Months of Agony
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