A radio telescope located in the Australian outback has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, the country’s national science agency (CSIRO) has said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) carried out a continuum survey to create a map of the universe. Most of the millions of star-like points on the map … Read more
SpaceX’s latest altitude test of its Starship rocket ended in disaster, when the craft burst into flames as it attempted to land. However, the company hailed the test flight as a success. The Starship SN8 (Serial Number 8) was the latest iteration of a prototype rocket that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk hopes will one day send … Read more
A radio telescope located in the Australian outback has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours, the country’s national science agency (CSIRO) has said. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) carried out a continuum survey to create a map of the universe. Most of the millions of star-like points on the map … Read more
Britain could risk an “economic blackout” due to its heavy reliance on foreign satellites, the chairman of UKspace has said. Analysis by the trade body representing the UK’s space sector found that at least 90 per cent of the data sent through satellite services relies on those sent up by other nations including the US and … Read more
The attitude and orbit control system of an ESA satellite dubbed ‘the Claw’ that will remove debris from space will be designed and constructed in Britain. The OECD estimates that there are now more than 160 million objects in object, mostly space debris that varies from defunct satellites to flecks of paint. Due to the … Read more
A British firm has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop methods to process Moon dust into its constituent elements of oxygen and metal alloys. With plans afoot to build a base on the Moon (possibly powered by nuclear fission) as a jumping-off point for a mission to Mars, work is being undertaken to … Read more
Astronomers in Australia have discovered a new way to see the elusive dark matter haloes that surround galaxies. The new technique, created by researchers at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, draws on the effect called weak gravitational lensing – a feature of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Scientists estimate that up to 85 per cent … Read more
Aerospace manufacturer Thales Alenia Space – which maintains a presence in the UK – will construct a chemical refuelling station, to be launched in 2027, to support Nasa’s Lunar Gateway. The Lunar Gateway is a planned space station which will orbit the moon and serve as a hub for communications, experimentation and as a stepping … Read more
The origin of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRB) emanating from our own galaxy has been solved by Nasa scientists. FRBs are intermittent radio waves emanating from a distant object in space and are often so bright that they can be visible across much of the nearby universe. Their unique nature has led scientists to speculate on the … Read more
Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia has been selected by Nasa to deploy a “space-hardened” 4G network on the surface of the Moon, as part of its plans to establish a sustainable human presence on Earth’s planetary satellite by 2028. Nasa’s ambitious ‘Artemis’ project aims to return humans to the Moon; to set up a long-term human … Read more