space
Success for SpaceX 're-usable rocket'
Posted in Science on 31st Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
California's SpaceX company has successfully re-flown a segment from one of its Falcon 9 rockets.
ExoMars: Mars Rover scientists to study Mawrth Vallis location option
Posted in Hardware on 29th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
Europe is going to investigate a second site on Mars as a possible destination to send its 2021 rover.
SpaceX launch of private citizens on a lunar orbiting mission in 2018 will use new Falcon Heavy
Posted in Hardware on 29th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and will be the most powerful vehicle since Saturn V to reach orbit.
No one knows what to do with the International Space Station
Posted in Science on 28th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
Congress has only approved funding through 2024. What happens then?
Impact crater linked to Martian tsunamis
Posted in Science on 26th Mar, 2017
by Alex Muller
Scientists have located an impact crater linked to powerful tsunamis that swept across part of ancient Mars.