09 March 2018
Juno gives insight into Jupiter's epic winds
... on beneath Jupiter’s atmosphere and Kaspi and fellow co-workers are hoping that by studying some of Jupiter’s other iconic features, such as the Great Red Spot, with the same methods they developed to characterise the jet...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... there is much more to learn about the dynamics at play in the gas giant’s atmosphere. “Saturn’s northern hexagon is an iconic feature on one of the most charismatic members of the Solar System, so to discover that it still holds major mysteries...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... dummy on their test flight, but this one is called “Rosie the Astronaut” in honor of “Rosie the Riveter,” an icon of World War II honouring the contributions of women in aircraft and armament factories. “Rosie embodies everything you would...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... climate change and its associated rise in sea levels could prove a significant threat to some of the world’s iconic coastal space launch sites, including Florida’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). NASA is building a massive artificial dune...
31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
Over a century ago Einstein predicted in his iconic theory of General Relativity that rotating bodies in space should 'drag' the very fabric of space time around ...
19 June 2020
US firm offers flights to edge-of-space under high-tech balloon
... regulated by the FAA Office of Commercial Spaceflight. The human space flight company plans to launch from the iconic Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, but also has additional planned launch...
