April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... launch of Kepler were virtually unheard of. However, after overcoming a few technical hitches and eventually running out of fuel, Kepler has been placed in a safe orbit around the Sun to while away the rest of its days...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... and ready to go at any time because it can be kept on the launch pad at ambient temperatures, without risking evaporating fuel, frozen valves or other low temperature damage. According to Levykin: “Having rockets that are always ready to go at the...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... areas, in particular of water ice, has sparked visions for their utilisation. This may include the production of fuel for rocket stages, harvesting of water and generation of oxygen for astronaut life support, and other applications...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
... those years and how he manages to communicate with a world-wide network of Cosmo Cadets, is all imaginative rocket fuel for STEAM learning through entertainment. This is the story of ‘Cosmo’, a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
.... OneSpace, a startup based in Beijing, successfully launched its first 9-metre-tall, single-stage OS-X solid fuel rocket to an altitude of around 40 km from an undisclosed base in northwestern China on Thursday. This marks a significant milestone...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
.... With a Solar System doomed to be littered by defunct robots no longer able to continue operations as they have run out of fuel, the steam-powered space-hopper could be a boon for future exploration, where the vast majority of its...
