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India set to launch five UK satellites

Posted in Science on 10th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

India is set to put in orbit five foreign satellites, built in Britain, to observe the earth.

Buzz Aldrin: SpaceX Failure Shows We Need More Commercial Space Travel, Not Less

Posted in Science on 10th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

The recent failure of the commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is a near-term setback.

New Zealand is Joining the Private Space Race

Posted in Science on 8th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

A company called Rocket Lab is to build a new facility near Christchurch which will launch a payload into orbit before the year is out.

After the SpaceX rocket failure, supplies are finally on their way to the ISS

Posted in Science on 4th Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

The previous three missions to the ISS have ended in disaster.

The Air Force sent a self destruct command to the faulty SpaceX rocket

Posted in Hardware on 1st Jul, 2015
by Alex Muller

The Air Force has just announced that its safety officers sent the command for the rocket to destroy itself after it started to malfunction.