Pandemics and university disinterest apparently no match for ingenuity and determination Dundee Satellite Station's home turf at Scotland's Errol Aerodrome is to host an Optical Ground Station to test and demonstrate satellite quantum secure communi…
Lees meerEnjoy the slideshow from Tianwen's orbital adventures China is claiming that as of Wednesday, its Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter has officially photographed the entire Red Planet. And it's shown off new photos of the southern polar cap and a volcano to prov…
Lees meerESA ruins our day with some bad news An asteroid predicted to hit Earth in 2052 has, for now, been removed from the European Space Agency's list of rocks to be worried about.…
Lees meerConsumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum NanoAvionics has unveiled a 4K satellite selfie taken by a GoPro Hero 7 as the company's MP42 microsatellite flew 550km above the Coral Sea and Great Barrie…
Lees meerAll these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace Scientists at top universities in China propose sending a spacecraft powered by nuclear fission to orbit Neptune – the outermost planet in our …
Lees meerGyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too A piece of Soviet-era physics equipment may be the key to worldwide geothermal energy.…
Lees meer25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon Rocket Lab has sent NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) spacecraf…
Lees meerMoving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently Interview NASA has set late August as the launch window for its much-delayed Artemis I rocket. Already perched atop the booster is the first flight-read…
Lees meerNASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Pic When space junk crashed into the Moon earlier this year, it made not one but two craters on the lunar surface, judging from images revealed by NASA on Friday.…
Lees meerFirst steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite NASA is finally ready to launch its unmanned Orion spacecraft and put it in the orbit of the Moon. Lift-off from Earth is now expected in late August using a Space Launch System (SLS) roc…
Lees meerSpace boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years NASA has chosen the three companies it will fund to develop a nuclear fission reactor ready to test on the Moon by the end of the decade.…
Lees meerMove over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend Scientists in Germany claim to have developed bipolar transistors from organic materials, opening a path for flexible and transparent electronics.…
Lees meerMega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together' Amazon unveiled its first "fully autonomous mobile robot" and other machines designed to operate alongside human workers at its warehouses.…
Lees meerSpace boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory! Pondering what services to switch off to keep your laptop going just that bit longer? NASA engineers can relate, having decided the Mars InSight lander will go out o…
Lees meerAnd over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!? The software on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is to be upgraded after nearly two decades, giving the orbiter capabilities to hunt for water beneath the planet and study its larger moon, Phobos.…
Lees meerSatellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks South Korea's Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) yesterday succeeded in its endeavor to send the home-grown Nuri launcher into space, then place a working satellite in orbit.…
Lees meerFundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help Not that anything in the quantum hardware world is fully cooked, but quantum computing is quite a bit farther along than quantum networking. Not to be left out with the …
Lees meerPlus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? NASA engineers had to work fast to avoid another leak affecting the latest Artemis dry run, just hours after an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) via the …
Lees meerWith operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory The SOFIA aircraft has returned to New Zealand for a final time ahead of the mission's conclusion later this year.…
Lees meerAsked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them SpaceX has reportedly reacted to an open letter requesting accountability for Elon Musk by firing those involved.…
Lees meerFigure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement In the hype-tastic world of quantum computing, consulting giant McKinsey & Company claims that the still-nascent field has the potential to create $80 billion …
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