03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... affect its orbit, unlike other small, icy objects that are known to populate the disk. Currently sat at a distance of around 92 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun, DeeDee will be closest to the Sun at a distance of around...
11 August 2017
Satellite launch demand to grow tenfold in next 20 years
Orbital Access Limited (OAL), is a UK based launch systems and aerospace services business, and its latest small sat market forecast for the period 2017 to 2036 identifies mega-constellations such as OneWeb, SpaceX and Planet ...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
... of Musk, Bezos and Branson for a while now, but that does not mean competitors have been sat idly by and to prove that the rocket launching business is still an open game, Chinese company OneSpace became...
08 June 2018
Curiosity discovers ancient organic molecules on Mars
... trundling around the Gale Crater has found organic material in samples of mudstone, that once upon a time sat at the bottom of an an ancient lake. Coupled with new evidence of seasonal methane variations in the martian atmosphere, these...
01 March 2019
Crew Dragon gets ready for first liftoff
... place; a flight which is expected to take place later this year around July, if all goes well tomorrow. Sat quietly waiting, Ripley prepares for the critical Crew Dragon test launch scheduled for tomorrow. Image...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... test target, a 740 kilogram satellite launched by India two months earlier for the purpose of the exercise, sat in an orbit at 300 kilometres, said the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below...
