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...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
...Institute) and instrument developers (such as University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory) will be able ... second-year Earth and Planetary Science student at Imperial College London and an active member of the science team at the ...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... rising awareness of space weather as a systemic risk to modern day infrastructure and power systems. In March 2025, Lloyd’s of London hosted a high-level briefing on extreme space weather, citing its specially commissioned Marsh McLennan report that...
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...
