Blue Origin Wednesday 23rd January saw Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket successfully launch eight different NASA sponsored satellites into orbit. This demonstrates the company’s trusted status as a partner of the US Government’s NASA organisation. It also continues the strong record of the company in using re-usable technology. Wednesday’s launch was the fourth [...]

SpaceX Launches Further Iridium Satellites Iridium is a large team of satellites which surround the Earth, providing a satellite telephone communication system which covers the entire globe. The original satellites were launched toward the end of the last Century, and have been working well ever since. It is this system which enables telephone [...]

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) detected Very strong radio signals have been detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity mapping Experiment (CHIME) observatory in British Columbia in Canada. They appear to originate from a very distant galaxy, around 1.5 billion light years away. These types of signals have been detected before, but by different telescopes [...]

NASA’s New Horizons successfully reaches Ultima Thule New Horizons is the spacecraft which took some spectacular photographs of Pluto back in 2015. It was no surprise that Pluto was found to be a very cold world. What was unexpected was the discovery that it remained so geologically active. Pluto was observed to be [...]