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...
September 2024
Hypersonics and the route to orbit
..., the company quotes travel times from Sydney, Australia, to New York, USA, of just 177 minutes, while London, UK, to Edmonton, Canada would be 75 minutes. However, this is really just the ‘headline promise’ of all proposed crew-rated...
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...
