NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed a highly successful flyby of Mars, giving the mission a carefully planned gravitational boost…
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! Astronomers capture clearest image yet of famous star’s elusive companion
Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in the Atacama Desert region of Northern Chile to discover…
The software that landed men on the Moon was not loaded onto the Apollo Guidance Computer so much as woven into it, with women at a Raytheon plant threading wire through or around thousands of tiny magnetic rings by hand, one pass for a one and one miss for a zero, until the whole program was a physical textile
The software that guided Apollo 11 towards the Moon did not reach its computer as an electronic download.…
Meet space startups at ESA’s Industry Space Days
Agency 27/07/2026 693 views 17 likes Startup companies which have come up with brilliant ideas for using space…
‘Crazy idea’ succeeds: Scientists monitor space junk with radio telescopes
Radio telescopes are designed to listen for signals from the stars and from distant galaxies, but scientists are…
Elon Musk Says ‘I Will Not Forget About Mars,’ Reaffirms SpaceX’s Multiplanetary Vision – SpaceX (NASDAQ:
Musk Rejects Claims He Abandoned Mars Musk said he had always understood that dangers originating on Earth could…
White & Case advises SPACEBEL on satellite contract with Democratic Republic of the Congo
Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised SPACEBEL, the Belgian space systems and software engineering company,…
Apply now to the ESA Academy’s Mission Success through Product Assurance Training Course 2026
Agency 27/07/2026 203 views 2 likes In brief The ESA’s Education Office is announcing the new edition of…
Vertical liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time
Ariane 6 launches to the sky on 9 July 2024 on its inaugural flight VA262. Europe’s newest heavy-lift…
Ingenuity was funded as a technology demonstration with five flights and a thirty-day window, assembled partly from mobile phone components because nothing space-rated was light enough, and it flew seventy-two times across nearly three years before a rotor tip touched the ground and permanently grounded the first aircraft to fly on another planet
Ingenuity arrived on Mars with no scientific instrument, no requirement to help Perseverance find rocks and no promise…
SpaceX at $100 could mean investors see zero value in its AI
The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning…
World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain | Astronomy
On a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out…