30 May 2016
BEAM module fully expanded on ISS
... worked for over seven hours with ISS astronaut Jeff Williams to ensure BEAM deployed successfully. Shortly afterwards, air tanks..., air had to be added manually and gradually. At times, Williams was asked to open the valve for as little as just one...
14 June 2016
Astronomers discover a giant planet orbiting two suns
...than finding planets around single stars," said SDSU astronomer William Welsh, one of the paper's coauthors. "The...population of large, long-period circumbinary planets", said SDSU astronomer William Welsh, one of the paper's coauthors. Members of the ...
28 November 2016
UK capital investment company initiates pioneering space technologies fund
... sectors, however the shift towards space-related businesses was the idea of David Williams, CEO of UK satellite operator Avanti Communications Group plc. Williams recognised the need for a venture capital fund to help boost the most...
07 October 2019
Salty rocks found by Curiosity supports theory that Mars once had vast lakes
...rock surfaces to identify the chemical and mineral composition of rocks and soils, a US-based team of scientists headed by William Rapin at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, analysed samples from a rock formation with different layers...
09 July 2021
Astronomers solve 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras
...minutes later, XMM sees a burst of X-rays,” says William Dunn, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, who ...energy from one place to another across the cosmos,” says William. More will be learnt about the auroras and other aspects...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... July, raising questions among more outspoken commentators as to whether its crew of two Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will need to be offered an alternative means of returning to Earth. It was revealed in a statement at the weekend that NASA wants...
