Fourth of nine scheduled planetary assists completed as spacecraft inches closer to releasing its orbiters The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) joint mission BepiColombo sent back its first photos of Mercur…
Lees meer'Putting rocket boosters the size of Saturn V's F1 under Brit space biz.' Yikes. But where's the money, Boris? UK government has published its National Space Strategy [PDF], a document full of big ideas but according to some, no new funding.…
Lees meerAlso plans remote-controlled robots with fingers and jar-opening capabilities, to help run a moon base Japanese auto-maker Honda has set its sights on developing its own rockets and running a satellite launch business.…
Lees meerAt Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, billionaire egos create fear of flying A group of 21 current and former employees of Blue Origin, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’s rocketry side hobby, have penned an open letter that describes the company as fostering …
Lees meerInfrastructure to support lower-emission aircraft, is the hope More than a dozen projects that might someday provide the infrastructure at airports to sustain zero-emission aviation are on the receiving end of grant money to continue their research.…
Lees meerMore airspace and a hotline to the authority fixed up for the next flight Virgin Galactic has received clearance by US flight regulators to resume spaceflights.…
Lees meerPublic health experts wonder what took so long YouTube says it will remove anti-vaccine videos from its service and has already blocked the channels operated by several widely viewed anti-vaccine advocates.…
Lees meerThanks, science Scientists studying Mars now reckon flooding from lakes contributed to around a quarter of the planet's land erosion and not just continuous flows of water that had been assumed to be the cause.…
Lees meerWho wouldn't want a break from Earth's noise? Martian spacecraft will get a temporary break from their normal work schedules when NASA pauses sending any commands from mission control during the upcoming Mars solar conjunction.…
Lees meerAstronomers are still figuring out how the planet's storm continues to rage Video The winds whirring round the outer edge of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have grown more powerful over the past decade, reaching speeds of at least 400 miles per hour, the…
Lees meer'Here I am, 100 billion neurons and all you want me to do is calculate all the ways this could possibly go wrong?' Industrial mega-conglomerate Samsung is working to "copy and paste" the structure of the human brain onto computer chips.…
Lees meerCommercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022 Airbus and the Mexican Space Agency (MSA) have agreed to collaborate on tech to extract resources on the Moon.…
Lees meer'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more Video As autumn arrives in the northern hemisphere, scientists have shown how tiny connected semiconductors can be distributed on the wind in a similar way to the seasonal spreadin…
Lees meerUS company equips cybernetic pooch to help in building inspections, post-disaster assessments Boston Dynamics' creepy robot dog Spot has found another new employer for its unique skillset.…
Lees meerNothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors Two intelligence funding appropriation bills currently awaiting approval from the US Congress contain within them sections for the creation of a new o…
Lees meerSlaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and docks with Tianhe China has advanced preparations for the next crewed mission to its Tianhe space station, successfully launching a robo-truck carrying enough…
Lees meerThe environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact SpaceX took another step towards launching the orbital version of its Starship last week with the release of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (DPEA) from the US Federal …
Lees meerPlenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules The first crewed mission to China's space station has ended successfully.…
Lees meerSome sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip The space tourist crew who spent three days orbiting Earth in a SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to our planet in one piece.…
Lees meerGreen machine will also suck up microplastics between Glasgow and Belfast A hydrogen-powered cargo-carrying submarine has received taxpayer funding as part of the UK government's goal to slash maritime emissions by 2050.…
Lees meerVision from window seats didn’t stream, everything else worked SpaceX has successfully launched its first all-civilian crew into space.…
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