COVID’s been harder on airlines than space companies Richard Branson last week offloaded 10.4 million shares of Virgin Galactic, worth US$300M, to prop up his other businesses including pandemic-damaged airline Virgin Atlantic.…
Lees meerThis isn't Boeing very well, is it? Boeing's troubled CST-100 Starliner capsule, once expected to ferry astronauts to and from space, is heading back to the workshop after suffering mechanical failures.…
Lees meerBorked module and fingerpointing puts space relationship with US under strain Opinion NASA's relationship with its Russian International Space Station (ISS) partner is under a similar strain to, say, an orbiting outpost that has been given a surpri…
Lees meerNot a hardware or software bug, for a change Mars rover Perseverance failed in its first attempt to collect a sample of rock from the Red Planet because the material crumbled to dust, NASA scientists have said.…
Lees meerDon't get your hopes up about that Sept 24, 2182 end-of-world party Bennu, already considered the second most dangerous asteroid in the Solar System, has a slightly increased chance of hitting Earth in the coming centuries, NASA said this week.…
Lees meerUpper stage didn't ignite, Earth observation satellite likely lost India's return to space has failed, after the upper stage of a Thursday launch went awry.…
Lees meerIs that the sound of hammering we can hear? Boeing's Starliner CST 100 – aka the Calamity Capsule – continues to remain firmly wedded to Earth as engineers work to resolve a problem with valves in the spacecraft's thruster systems.…
Lees meerDon't rocket the boat, says agency - you'll hear from us soon NASA's Office of Inspector General has stuck another knife in the agency's dreams of a 2024 Moon landing by pointing out [PDF] that, er, the astronauts will have to be good at holding the…
Lees meerYou looked like you needed some good news In what is good news to everyone except possibly the most introverted masochists out there, boffins have decided that it is possible to rid the earth of COVID. In fact, it's probably easier to do than polio,…
Lees meerIndustrial parks in Bac Giang, home to Apple and Samsung suppliers, battled shutdowns and skyrocketing COVID infections among workers since May The Vietnamese province of Bac Giang, home to numerous factories that contribute to tech supply chains, i…
Lees meerWatts coming down may not go up Column There's a fine line between madness and magic in technology. Unless you're talking about wireless power transmission, where woo outweighs watts every single time.…
Lees meerSuspects rocks are the problem, not probe NASA's first attempt at having the Perseverance rover retrieve a sample of Martian rocks for later return to Earth has not gone as planned.…
Lees meerCaltech received $100m for the project and is only just telling us now Billionaire Donald Bren was behind a quiet $100m donation in 2013 that established Caltech's Space-based Solar Power Project (SSPP) in an attempt to harness solar power from oute…
Lees meer540 degrees total, not just 45, NASA tells El Reg The International Space Station actually spun one and a half times last week after the just-docked Russian Nauka module unexpectedly fired its thrusters.…
Lees meerHit us up next time you're free, though SpaceX is clear to build a lander with NASA to put the first American woman and next American man on the Moon – after Uncle Sam dismissed complaints that the $2.94bn contract was awarded unfairly.…
Lees meerCrew not in danger, NASA insists The International Space Station tilted 45 degrees today after Nauka, a just-docked Russian module, suddenly and unexpectedly fired its thrusters.…
Lees meerElderly lab negotiates tricky docking Russia's elderly Nauka module has made it to the International Space Station (ISS), some 25 years since construction of the research module began.…
Lees meerSpace is hard Two spacecraft with a lot to prove are ready for launch in the coming days.…
Lees meerWe speak to the scientists involved Plumes of water vapor on Ganymede have been spotted for the first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.…
Lees meer'Avatars' that roam around space station, or do work with high performance hands, to be controllable from the ground The International Space Station is getting mobile robot “space avatars” controllable by the public from Earth, courtesy of a joint p…
Lees meerIt's not a bribe when it's a payment waiver Blue Origins supremo Jeff Bezos has offered NASA a $2bn discount to keep his dream alive of transporting the next American man and first woman to the Moon's surface.…
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