Orbiter nearly built ahead of ride with SpaceX in August '22. But first, a home-grown rocket launch in a month or so South Korea's first lunar expedition is on track for lift-off in August 2022.…
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Lees meerHopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth NASA’s Perseverance rover will make a second attempt at collecting a sample of Mars rock for eventual return to Earth – though it's going to scratch its latest target first to m…
Lees meerNext stop, Kourou It's been a big week for the much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as testing of the observatory was completed and operations to ship the spacecraft to the Kourou launchpad began.…
Lees meerStill, that'll be 100 quid, please Scientists in Japan have 3D printed an approximation of one of the nation's delicacies, Wagyu beef, in an experiment involving bovine stem cells.…
Lees meerTwo-day hackathon to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and where to put them The UK's venerable Ordnance Survey is to fling open its electronic doors in an effort to tackle infrastructure challenges faced by the UK's rollout of ele…
Lees meerApologises for slow processing, says those invited for further tests will hear by November The European Space Agency's Parastronaut feasibility project – an effort to recruit astronauts with a physical disability – has far exceeded its most optimist…
Lees meerISS installation work to be carried out some other time NASA on Tuesday postponed a spacewalk after one of the astronauts due to work outside the International Space Station had a “pinched nerve” in his neck.…
Lees meerBoffins ponder where Usain Bolt of space rocks came from Astronomers have discovered the fastest asteroid orbiting the Sun yet, a one-kilometre-wide space rock that completes a lap of our star every 113 Earth days.…
Lees meerAn interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab has been tapped to provide a pair of Photon spacecraft for a mission to Mars in 2024.…
Lees meerWhat do we want? Rockets! When do we want them? In the next few years Scotland has taken another step towards commercial vertical launch capability with the dismissal of objections instigated by Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen.…
Lees meerBut first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun China's National Space Administration has announced that the Zhurong Mars rover has ticked off everything on its to-do list, and is still ticking over, so has been assigned an extended …
Lees meerUS agency agrees to pause in exchange for 'expedited' schedule. That'll be a first for Artemis NASA is calling a halt to work on its Human Landing System for more than two months while the legal shenanigans triggered by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin run t…
Lees meerHope to address the noise of airflows over flaps and other parts as that can be louder than engines The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has teamed with Boeing on a joint research project to make quieter mid-sized passenger planes – by figu…
Lees meerRemote sensing data to be shared among BRICS bloc, so they can all watch the world from above The space agencies of the BRICS bloc – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – have agreed to share some satellite sensing data.…
Lees meerThe Reg speaks to chief scientist in fuel-compression experiment The US government's nuclear physicists say they are close to achieving fusion ignition – the point at which a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining – in the lab by compressing matter…
Lees meerAm I blue? Am I green? Government isn't quite transparent The UK government has released its delayed hydrogen strategy which – in a strange move for a colourless gas – hedges its bets between green and blue.…
Lees meerThe saying is that they aren't making any more land yet here we are A new island formed by a submarine volcano was spotted off the coast of Japan this weekend.…
Lees meerInternal structure extends to 60% of gas giant's radius, study shows New analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has revealed Saturn possesses a fuzzy or diffuse core without clearly defined boundaries.…
Lees meerGround facility to be finished this year as early trials focus on balloons just 300m away A Chinese ground-based facility for converting solar energy bounced to Earth is scheduled for completion by the end of 2021 and has already conducted energy tr…
Lees meerIn Jeff's world, it's not 'you snooze, you lose', it's 'you lose, you sues' Updated Blue Origin sued NASA late on Friday, claiming the space agency unfairly awarded top rival SpaceX a $2.94bn contract to develop the next lunar lander.…
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