by admin | Dec 4, 2024 | Elon Musk, News, rocket, SLS, Space News, space travel, SpaceX, Trump NASA
Since Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory, rumours and speculation have circulated that NASA’s giant Moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), could be under threat. The rocket is one of several key elements needed for the US space agency’s Artemis programme,... by admin | Dec 11, 2023 | astronaut, Nasa, News, rocket, space, Space News, The Conversation
In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah... by admin | Oct 23, 2023 | Nasa, News, rocket, satellites, space junk, Space News, The Conversation
Reports this week suggest a near-collision between an Australian satellite and a suspected Chinese military satellite. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the US government issued the first ever space junk fine. The Federal Communications Commission handed a US$150,000... by admin | Feb 11, 2023 | explainer, International Space Station, ISS, News, rocket, Roscosmos, Soyuz 2.1a, Space News
Earlier this week Roscomsos, the Russian space agency, performed the latest of many (so many) International Space Station (ISS) resupply missions. The launch vehicle behind that trip to the ISS was the Soyuz 2.1a. It’ll also take centre stage later this month when it...