Centaurs

Astrobotic’s Peregrine is gearing up for a chance to land on the Moon, hoping to become the first commercial lunar lander to touchdown on the dusty surface of the celestial body and pave the way for other private ventures to follow.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe lunar lander will ride on board United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, which is scheduled for liftoff on Monday, January 8, at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The historic launch will be broadcast live on NASA Television, the NASA app,…

The first two Project Kuiper satellites, prototypes for Amazon's satellite broadband program, will head to Low Earth Orbit in the first quarter of 2023. Amazon previously announced that the prototypes will launch on top of an ABL Space Systems rocket by the end of this year. While the tech giant will retain its launches with ABL, Project Kuiper will debut with another provider entirely: Its first two satellites will fly on the maiden flight of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket.  Project Kuiper VP Rajeev…

Centaur may have disappeared for good, but remnants of the company's products remain if you look hard enough. Computer enthusiast Albert Thomas (opens in new tab) (aka Bizude) got his hands on Centaur's CHA chip and put it through its paces in various modern triple-A titles.The CHA processor has a die size of 194 mm² and features eight CNS x86 cores without simultaneous multithreading (SMT). Depending on the bin, the clock speed varies between 2.2 GHz and 2.5 GHz. The 16nm chip has 16MB of L3 cache, supporting AVX-512…