23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... their tidally locked planets are unlikely to have magnetic fields helping deflect their stellar winds,” says Daniel Horton, an assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the...
29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
... a Halcyon HTP propulsion system designed and built by Benchmark Space Systems for orbital maneouvers. Co-founded in 2018 by Daniel Faber and Jeremy Schiel, Orbit Fab, who were also the first ever private company to resupply...
04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... with the construction of MOONS (Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph) and contributions to DKIST (The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope), DESI (The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) and LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope...
25 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... a long-duration mission to the ISS but decided against it: “I calculated the date of my return as the week before Daniel would graduate from high school”, he says. “I’d miss seeing Gabby off to college. I’d miss everything. It wasn’t a hard...
25 April 2018
New Skyrora launch vehicle focused on UK lift-off!
... to show something real to the market as a result of that work is incredibly exciting for us!,” said Business Development Director Daniel Smith. How close are the company to realising their ambition of launching a rocket from the UK sometime soon...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... dots between what we see at the Sun and what we experience while soaking up the solar wind,” says Daniel Müller, ESA’s Solar Orbiter project scientist. “This will provide unprecedented insight into how our parent...
