Meltdown over a non-meltdown You may have seen in the news some panic about a Chinese nuclear reactor going wrong, and a warning of an "imminent radiological threat." Well, don't worry: it's a routine fuel rod problem.…
Lees meerHad trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage Engineers have hoisted the core stage of NASA's mega-rocket, the Space Launch System, vertical ready to bolt on its boosters and roll the stack to th…
Lees meerCar maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in outer space.…
Lees meerBurning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen $28m has secured someone a seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard, with the mystery bidder scoring the right to breathe the same air as fellow passenger Amazon founder Jeff…
Lees meerSutherland Spaceport: A Prime location? Interview We spoke to Chris Larmour, the CEO of UK rocketeers Orbex, about the challenges of launching a rocket from the UK and scaling things up.…
Lees meerAll systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars NASA has finished the Perseverance Mars rover's post-landing shakedown and the vehicle has therefore embarked on its first sample collection mission, the space agency confirmed on Wedn…
Lees meerRussia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty Dust off your funky eclipse sunglasses and your homemade pinhole projector – a partial solar eclipse is set to cast a blurry shadow across parts of the UK on Thursday.…
Lees meerWith his brother in tow, poor sod Jeff Bezos has confirmed he will buckle up with his brother, Mark, next month and head into space as part of the first human flight on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.…
Lees meerVERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's concept selection NASA announced yesterday that it will fund two new missions to Venus to study its atmosphere and topography, both chosen from the Discovery Program.…
Lees meerWe wanted to post a dad joke about sodium, but we thought: Na, people will groan... TerraPower – the Bill Gates-founded nuclear company – and Warren Buffett-owned PacifiCorp are hooking up to build a Natrium reactor at a decommissioned coal plant in…
Lees meerPlans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after South Korea has revealed a test version of a locally developed rocket with satellite launch capabilities.…
Lees meerESA's veteran probe left for its mission 18 years ago today Space extenders Today marks the 18th anniversary since the European Space Agency' (ESA) launched the extraordinarily long-lived (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome i…
Lees meerSpace boffin tells Reg it's stupidly hard to clean up orbiting trash after Canadarm2 survives encounter with item too small to be tracked The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has revealed that a piece of space debris had punctured the Canadarm2 robotic o…
Lees meerThree years to go and space agency is way behind schedule The chances of NASA sending the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 is looking less and less likely, according to a report this month by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).…
Lees meerFormer UK.gov spin doctor talks of mess in response to crisis The UK’s Health Secretary put plans to create the test and trace system to combat the spread of COVID-19 back by more than month by needlessly introducing his own targets, the Prime Minis…
Lees meerIt’s a pathfinder for Toyota’s planned self-driving moon buggy, and tiny compared to Optimus Prime Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will send a transforming robot to the Moon.…
Lees meer'This is why we can't have nice things' A further indignity has been heaped upon Russia's Buran Space Shuttle as images surfaced showing at least one of the surviving Soviet-era spacecraft was defaced by a graffiti "artist".…
Lees meerExplosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, now part of Google, is said to have been instrumental in con…
Lees meerPumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water Asteroid Ryugu, the rock from which Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe brought home some samples, is home to highly porous boulders that might just have been the stuff of which planets …
Lees meerPrime viewing in the Pacific Rim Skygazers will be treated to a total lunar eclipse on Wednesday, May 26, when the Moon passes through Earth’s shadow and it’ll appear particularly large and reddish in color.…
Lees meerESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes China's Mars rover has taken its first tentative trundlings on the surface of Mars, a week after the vehicle's landing in Utopia Planitia.…
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