Jan 5, 2023 | Satellites, Space
NASA’s Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the Orion capsule attached, launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 16, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Artemis I mission will send the uncrewed spacecraft around the moon to test the vehicle’s...
Jan 5, 2023 | Satellites, Solar, Space
Harnessing the power of the sun is all the rage right now. At the end of 2022, US scientists announced a nuclear fusion breakthrough that could, in a few decades, see a clean, renewable and essentially unlimited energy source powering the world. In reality,...
Jan 5, 2023 | Featured, Solar, Space
Following over a decade of research, including two years of testing origami-inspired components, a small prototype satellite designed to harvest solar energy launched yesterday morning aboard SpaceX’s most recent Falcon 9 rocket...
Dec 15, 2022 | Energy, Fusion, Space
The announcement this week of fusion ignition is a major scientific advancement, one that is decades in the making. More energy was produced than the laser energy used to spark the first controlled fusion triumph. The result: replicating the fusion that...
Dec 8, 2022 | Featured, Space, UK
We’re going to have to wait a little longer to see the first ever orbital space launch from UK soil. Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company had pencilled in next Wednesday for the historic Cornwall flight, but it is now going to slip until after...
Dec 1, 2022 | Featured, Space
A new video shows how a team of NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft plan to relay Martian rock samples to Earth. Key moments of the unprecedented and highly complex Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission are detailed in a 106-second NASA/ESA video(opens in...
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