Six scientists will be spending the next eight months on a remote Hawaiian volcano as a part of a human-behaviour study for future missions to Mars. The group consisting of ...
January 20, 2017 at 9:46 pm by Ron Perillo
Japan launched a cargo ship this week, heading out to the ISS and taking their new ‘space junk’ collector along for the ride. The Kounotori, which means Stork in ...
December 10, 2016 at 3:00 pm by Peter Donnell
Mars is the next frontier that mankind is set on, there can not be any more doubt about that. The US Congress mandates a manned Mars Mission within 25 Years and Elon Musk who ...
September 28, 2016 at 5:51 pm by Bohs Hansen
When sending something into space, it is important to consider how big it is. Something large may be useful in space, but it is no good if it can’t be carried up there ...
March 26, 2016 at 11:30 pm by Alexander Neil
Meet Stratolaunch, the largest plane on Earth! Codenamed the “Roc” after the mythical bird of prey, this ‘beast’ looks to be a true king of the sky. In ...
August 4, 2015 at 11:00 am by Gabriel Roşu
NASA are cooking up something big, very big! The simple-named Space Launch System, a 384 feet tall rocket, the biggest ever created. To put this into perspective the Saturn V ...
September 2, 2014 at 9:59 am by Peter Donnell
Another successful test by NASA this week, their Orion capsule that’s designed to get astronauts back into space after landing on another planet has been recovered by ...
August 8, 2014 at 11:55 pm by Kyle Williams
The main problem faced when talking about sustainability in space travel missions is the lack of oxygen. Due to this, many space-related missions executed so far are close to ...
July 30, 2014 at 12:21 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Opportunity first touched down on the red planet back in 2004, at which point its original mission plan only required it to drive for 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) within its first ...
July 29, 2014 at 10:21 am by Peter Donnell
Canada is said to be teaming up with NASA to work on its Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer mission, or OSIRIS-REx for short, having ...
July 19, 2014 at 7:08 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Moving further out in to space is still one of NASAs main goals, but to do so would require new and more up to date rocket technology. Fortunately, Boeing have just been given ...
July 7, 2014 at 8:23 am by Peter Donnell
If you want to test a new rover for a mission on the red planet you’ve got two options. One would be to spend billions and fire your creation through space to Mars and ...
July 1, 2014 at 9:03 am by Peter Donnell
China has announced yesterday that they successfully landed their craft on the moons surface, and later deployed their Jade Rabbit rover, a great success for the nation as ...
December 14, 2013 at 7:47 pm by Peter Donnell
The mystery of was there ever oceans or rivers on Mars is one we no longer scratch our heads about, we’re certainly there was. However, we still can’t really find ...
November 18, 2013 at 2:46 pm by Peter Donnell
