First launch from New Mexico facility goes off without a hitch, ticks regulatory boxes and even does some science On Saturday, Virgin Galactic completed its third spaceflight and first from its new launch location outside White Sands National Park i…
Lees meerSeries of 8 spin-torque oscillators improves efficiency, but parallel design better for wireless transmission A research team from the National University of Singapore and Japan’s Tohoku University say they have improved on the use of spin-torque os…
Lees meerAnother NASA-awarded mission. Lucky those first stages are reusable, eh? SpaceX has notched up another order for a mission to the Moon, this time from Firefly Aerospace for a 2023 launch for its lunar lander, Blue Ghost.…
Lees meerTextbooks aren't everything A couple of Swedish scientists have been able to show that practising maths is not the only way to get better at the subject.…
Lees meerNever mind the Clacton-on-Sea pier. They've got £600k to build power plant butlers The University of Essex has secured £600,000 in funding to develop radiation-resistant robots for use in nuclear facilities.…
Lees meerSurrey Satellite and Airbus to ponder a fleet of Moonlight satellites The European Space Agency (ESA) has inked a deal with a pair of consortia aimed at providing telecommunication and navigation services for Moon missions.…
Lees meerMothership checks out, so VSS Unity will fly again As bidding intensifies for a seat on Blue Origin's first crewed hop into space, Virgin Galactic has announced the next rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo test flight will take place on May 22.…
Lees meerExpensive free fall experience plus 'astronaut' bragging rights Comment If you want to spend a few minutes in free fall and get a view few others have seen in person, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space tourism venture has set its price for just such an…
Lees meerProbe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released images and video snapped during the landing process and checkout of its Zhurong Mars rover.…
Lees meerFirm working with FAA to 'investigate the anomaly' after second stage sputters What was supposed to have been a milestone in Rocket Lab's march toward reusability turned into a mishap over the weekend as a borked second stage sent the payload on the…
Lees meerSurviving the 'seven minutes of terror' may not be easy, but hey, 祝你好运！ China’s National Space Administration will today attempt to land its first Mars rover Zhurong on the Red Planet.…
Lees meerVisible from the launchpad... when it finally gets there NASA has slapped its worm logo on the side of the Crew Module Adaptor (CMA) for the Orion spacecraft as the first Artemis mission to the Moon inches closer.…
Lees meerIt's Space Race 2 for Russia and America Internet clothing mogul Yusaku Maezawa on Thursday said he and an assistant will take a 12-day trip to the International Space Station in December.…
Lees meerA few final tests then it's bags packed for French Guiana – and about time too ESA, CSA and NASA's James Webb Telescope opened its giant primary mirror one last time on Earth ahead of being packed up for long awaited launch later this year.…
Lees meerBoffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft carrying NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample, has started its two-year journey back to Earth, the space agency confirmed on Monday.…
Lees meerShould cover the cost of the air leaking out of the Russian segment Fancy a stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS)? It is about to get a lot pricier for future private astronaut missions.…
Lees meerLong March 5B lands 45km from the Maldives Bits of China's Long Match 5B rocket have returned to Earth without inconveniencing anyone, but did irritate NASA enough for the agency to issue a sternly-worded statement.…
Lees meerNASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick Video One of the microphones on Perseverance, NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, has recorded the sounds of its autonomous helicopter Ingenuity flyin…
Lees meerSatellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years Tired of space junk and weapons, US military commanders presented to Congress on Wednesday an argument to create a framework for rules-based order in space.…
Lees meerComing to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe IBM Research says it's made the world’s first 2nm chips, squeezing 50 billion transistors onto each of the fingernail-sized dies.…
Lees meerThere was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody Video SpaceX’s latest test of its Starship vehicle has stuck its landing for the first time.…
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