February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... Sputnik in 1958, for instance - or because they’re still in orbit around the Earth, or sitting on other celestial bodies. London s Science Museum s Space Descent VR exhibit uses state-of-the-art VR technology to allow visitors a 360° look inside...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... has been their lack of sustainability With an eye to this mixed history of lunar exploration, the privately-held, London-based company Spacebit plans to send the first UK rover to the Moon in 2021 as a payload on Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... of its time and the first to carry 100 guns. A contemporary engraving by J Jayne in the National Maritime Museum, London. High ground of space In Dolman and Bowen, two competing visions of space emerge. One, in which space and...
08 March 2017
The most distant galaxy yet observed by ALMA gives insight into first stars
...of astronomers, led by Nicolas Laporte of University College London, used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...a co-author of the study from ESO and University College London. “Remarkably, the required time is only about 200 million...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
... temperature to support water, he said. Tsiaras, and colleagues, who are all based at the University College London, London, UK, used the transit spectroscopy technique to determine that while K2-18 b is not Earth-like, it is wet, to some degree...
11 October 2019
Spacebit unveils its design of the UK's first Moon rover
...revealed the design of its lander - a walking rover that looks like a small mechanical spider. Developed by the London-based start-up company, Spacebit’s rover weighs just 1.3 kilogrammes, is solar powered and instead of wheels or tracks, is equipped...
