Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies The very-much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope is being pumped with fuel and prepared for liftoff after an anomaly knocked back its launch date to no earlier than December 22.…
Lees meerSubmissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong? Good news for those in the UK with primary school-aged kids and wondering what to do when the next bout of home-schooling hits: design a logo for the first UK satellite launch…
Lees meerA win in the rocketry world: 'Flames came out of the right end' UK nuclear fusion outfit Pulsar Fusion has fired up a chemical rocket engine running on a combination of nitrous oxide oxidiser, high-density polyethylene fuel and oxygen.…
Lees meerOh wait Interview "At 12km/s we'd be a really effective [anti-satellite] weapon," Daniel Lakey, Solar Orbiter spacecraft operations engineer at ESA tells The Reg.…
Lees meer'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes admitted in court this week she personally added Pfizer and Schering-Plough logos to her startup's presentations while trying to seal a deal with Walgree…
Lees meerBruce Willis not required NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory's (APL) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is under way following a successful launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.…
Lees meer... and a damn big radio telescope A team of scientists has managed to bounce a LoRa message off the Moon, setting an impressive record of 730,360km for the furthest distance such a data message has travelled.…
Lees meerDrug delivery, environmental clean up, building in space among possible applications Scientists say they have succeeded in producing programmable 3D printed objects from microbial ink produced by genetically modified E coli (Escherichia coli) bacter…
Lees meerSpace agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what's four more days? The European Space Agency has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope until 22 December so that it can undergo additional testing following an incident t…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if! A Chinese hypersonic glider that completed a test flight in July appears to be more sophisticated than first thought. It is reported the aircraft was able to fire a m…
Lees meerEvery debris cloud has a silver lining Opinion International politics proves Homo sapiens' kinship with purple-arsed baboons. There is yelling, there is exaggerated gesture, there is much ballistic propulsion of poo. The point to it all is surprisi…
Lees meer2022's plan: Playing with boosters and helicopters Rounding out a successful launch this morning, Rocket Lab has made good on CEO Peter Beck's promise to do pretty much everything bar catching the returning Electron booster in the company's recovery…
Lees meerTech promises to support boom in small satellites Scientists are trying to support the boom in miniaturised satellites with the development of a plasma engine using an iodine propellant — rather than the commonly used xenon — for the first time.…
Lees meerSimilar mistakes have been made in the past, after all Scientists should remain skeptical if they study rock samples drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover for evidence of alien life lest they be fooled by fake fossils, academics in the UK have warned…
Lees meerCaution: Story contains questionable Lego recreation Northrop Grumman has assembled a team to come up with a design for a new Lunar Rover.…
Lees meerMoscow slammed for 'reckless, dangerous, irresponsible' weapon test In a test of its missile technology, Russia destroyed an old space satellite on Monday, littering Earth's orbit with fragments and forcing astronauts on the International Space Stat…
Lees meerSystem Two takes modular, data-center-inspired approach. Plus: 127-qubit Eagle Big Blue hopes will fly Huge, monolithic quantum computers aren't in IBM's vision of the technology. Rather, the IT giant sees parallel, distributed systems made up of di…
Lees meerAll stacked up and nowhere to go NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has administered a kicking to the US space agency over its handling of the Artemis project, making grim reading for anyone hopeful of even a 2025 crewed lunar landing.…
Lees meerReflected light points to Moon-like material on recently discovered rock A freshly discovered train-sized rock that tags along with Earth as a constant companion orbiting the Sun is most likely a fragment of the Moon resulting from an ancient lunar …
Lees meerEverything but catching the thing: Rocket Lab prepares for recovery Interview New Zealand's Rocket Lab is set to launch another Electron rocket - a precursor to the rocketeer's first attempt at catching a descending booster. The Register caught up …
Lees meerMars Express wanted to demonstrate its relay smarts once again, but space agency mum on progress The European Space Agency (ESA) has made its first attempt to pick up data transmitted by the China National Space Administration's (CNSA) Zhurong rover…
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