US VP Mike Pence announces another Race to the Moon The United States’ policy has been directed toward further moon landings for some time, as a first step on the way to Mars. The [...]

Virgin Atlantic edge closer to first commercial passenger flight into space The latest Virgin Galactic test flight reached almost 90km in height as its Unity rocket plane completed another successful outing. Dave Mackay [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]