Meanwhile, next crew of astronauts all set to launch on Thursday The International Space Station performed a short engine burn on Wednesday to avoid potentially hitting a chunk of space junk.…
Lees meerProof of concept produces tiny volume of hydrocarbons, but makes a big point Scientists in Switzerland claim to have proved it is possible to create fuel from air and sunlight in the first field experiment of its kind.…
Lees meerThe space agency wants you to know they are still committed to the project NASA has delayed the first Artemis crewed mission to the moon until 2025, rather than the previously planned 2024.…
Lees meerPrivate-sector investment could unlock additional government cash British engineering and aerospace giant Rolls-Royce has secured funding to build nuclear power stations based on small modular reactor (SMR) technology.…
Lees meerPuts a whole new spin on 'To boldly go where no one has gone before' Four astronauts departed the International Space Station on Monday, and made their way safely back to Earth wearing diapers after their SpaceX capsule's toilet broke down.…
Lees meerA software workaround for an iffy component looms. Sound familiar? Ever had a component spew garbage and had to bodge around it? Engineers appear to be faced with a similar issue as they continue work to rouse the science instruments of the Hubble S…
Lees meerNASA and SpaceX to resume working on the next lunar lander The US Court of Federal Claims has dismissed Blue Origin’s complaints that NASA unfairly awarded its $2.89bn next-generation lunar lander system contract to SpaceX.…
Lees meerFeaturing two sidekicks: A rover using Nokia's 4G and a hopping recon bot NASA has selected a ridge close to Shackleton, a deep impact crater on the Moon's South Pole, to conduct its first-ever ice-water-mining expedition, which is expected to blast…
Lees meerScience suspended as engineers study synchronisation issue Attempts to restore NASA's stricken Hubble Space Telescope by turning it off and on again appear to have failed.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, SpaceX already has 1,000+ orbiting Starlink birds Amazon hopes to launch two prototype satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of 2022 as part of Project Kuiper – its $10bn effort to provide a commercial satellite broadband service tha…
Lees meerIt's not COVID-19 and it's not an emergency, insists NASA Four astronauts will not begin their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday as planned after NASA revealed an unspecified medical problem with the crew.…
Lees meerFrom Tatooine to Earth Star Wars-style moisture farming could provide safe drinking water for approximately 1 billion people here on Earth, according to research from a Google-owned research lab.…
Lees meerBoffins release treasure trove of findings from NASA probe, including weird cyclones around the poles Revelations that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is much deeper than believed and details on the planet's famous banded structures below its cloud layer w…
Lees meerAlas, we will have to wait 70 years to confirm the sighting Astronomers have for the first time discovered what looks like a planet outside the Milky Way, judging by a study published this week in Nature.…
Lees meerFrom developers to zettascale-by-2027 promises, the key things chip boss covered in speech this week Analysis Intel won't give up on Moore's Law, even though just about everyone has declared it dead or on its way out.…
Lees meerHorizons Europe carrot dangled amid protocol wrangling A report from the UK House of Commons' European Scrutiny Committee has blamed delays in Brussels for choking off revenue streams to British institutions and businesses.…
Lees meerPretty ambitious – none of this Blue-Origin-led consortium can put humans in orbit yet Blue Origin is leading a consortium hoping to put the first commercial space station into orbit. The craft is set to combine research and tourism facilities, and …
Lees meerFirst Artemis mission is stacked on a rocket – now for five punishing sets of tests before liftoff NASA has set a date for the test of the technologies it hopes will see it return to the Moon and explore Mars: February 2022.…
Lees meerNation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban South Korea today came close to joining the small club of nations that can build and launch their own orbital-class rockets, with its maiden attempt blasting off successfully, but failing to de…
Lees meerMeanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule, designed to carry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, will not fly until the first half of next year at the earliest, as the…
Lees meerError messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged Theranos blood-testing machines, which US prosecutors claim failed over 51 per cent of the time, provided no indication if things went awry during demonstrations for visitors, a court has …
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