After months of extensive upgrades to its Deep Space Network dish in Australia, Nasa has made contact once more with the Voyager 2 probe, which had been flying solo since March. The Voyager 2 probe, which last year became only the second man-made object to leave the solar system after its sibling Voyager 1, can now only … Read more
Astronauts will soon be able to send high-speed data transmissions from space with the construction of a new optical communications station in Western Australia. The ground station has the potential to receive high-definition video footage in real time and will probably be how video from Nasa’s next Artemis mission to the Moon in 2024 is beamed back down … Read more
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the Moon in 2024, according to a senior official. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, announced the news, which follows the launch of a Mars probe earlier this year by the UAE. “It will be an Emirati-made lunar rover … Read more
A smart fibre, funded by the US Army, is being tested on the International Space Station (ISS). The material could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to ‘feel’ through their pressurised suits. Researchers at the Army’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT have developed an acoustic fabric so sensitive to vibrations that it can … Read more