From 2020, tourists will be able to visit Nasa’s International Space Station (ISS) from $35,000 USD per night. The space agency announced that they will allow two private astronaut missions…
Space exploration
Beijing-based OneSpace attempted – and failed – to send a solid propellant rocket, made to carry satellites up to 100kg (220Ibs), up into orbit. The failure to launch adds to a…
Bo Roe on Twitter signalofchange https://t.co/TD5IpCJ0de First full-colour motion video from satellites Earth-i, a mapping service based in England, has launched a prototype of the world’s first full-colour, full-motion video…
LiLin Loh on Twitter Nano satellites help multiple industries conduct better weather-related risk analysis @futurescentre https://t.co/IEwlyFGSr0
Dorothy Ng on Twitter Elon Musk is planning for a rocket that flies from New York to Shanghai in 39 mins #signalofchange https://t.co/zIY2awuN1w
James Goodman on Twitter More space stuff for @launshae @FuturesCentre https://t.co/NmduG22dTt giulio quaggiotto on Twitter As satellites get smaller, space programs in developing countries are getting bigger https://t.co/zX6MfjDQTb cc @anabjain
Elsewhere, things are looking up. Like, 12.5 miles up. Alphabet is close to deploying balloons to restore telecommunications to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria wiped out cell coverage…
“And in July, the parliament passed its law – the first of its kind in Europe, and the most far-reaching in the world – asserting that if a Luxembourgish company…
This is amazing new research that might be a solution to control space pollution! Sounds fascinating, not only for reducing space junk, but also as an alternative non-combustion fuel. Although…
Cotton Farming in Space: Submit Your Ideas for Sustainability Experiments A competition designed to bring cotton farming aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is now officially open for entries. Organized…
Breakthrough Starshot successfully launch world’s smallest spacecraft The smallest spacecraft ever launched are successfully travelling in low Earth orbit and communicating with systems on Earth, scientists have announced. Known as…
A team of physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei has teleported the quantum state of a photon from a high-altitude ground station in Tibet to…
