Debris from a US SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has washed up on Britain’s shores November 27, 2015 Part of a rocket that took off from the US earlier this year has travelled across the Atlantic and ended up on the shores of the Scilly Isles. Bearing markings of the American flag, the 10m by 4m piece of metal has been identified as belonging to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blew up [...]
Nasa knocks Boeing out of race for $3.5bn International Space Station contract, leaving SpaceX, Orbital and Sierra Nevada to fight it out November 6, 2015 Boeing has fallen out of the race to win Nasa's $3.5bn (£2.3bn) contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). The Chicago-based company confirmed yesterday that its participation in the contest had come to an end. "We received some information as part of the letter we received from NASA this morning but until [...]
This new website from Nasa allows you to see how the Earth changes each day from a million miles away in space October 20, 2015 You can now see what the Earth looks like from space every day, thanks to a new website launched by Nasa. The US space agency is putting images taken by a camera on its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) up for public viewing, so that it is possible to see how the Earth rotates over [...]
Israel rockets into first place in race to complete first ever private mission to the moon October 7, 2015 A team of Israeli scientists has accelerated into first place in the race to send a privately-funded space mission to the moon. Calling themselves SpaceIL, they have just signed an official launch contract with the organisers of Google's Lunar X Prize competition to send a rocket to the moon before the end of 2017. The [...]
The entrepreneur space race: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos takes on Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt in the fight for space exploration September 16, 2015 A new kind of space race has taken off, and this time it involves entrepreneurs eager to dominate commercial spaceflight. Yesterday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, a key player in the field, announced his latest endeavour – his startup Blue Origin is investing more than $200m (£129m) in building rocket manufacturing facilities in Florida and [...]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has unveiled his space travel company Blue Origin’s new rocket – as well as launch plans from Cape Canaveral September 16, 2015 Amazon’s Jeff Bezos unveiled his space exploration company Blue Origin’s new rocket, announcing plans to fly from a classic launch pad in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The space travel startup announced a $200m investment to build a rocket manufacturing plant in the area, with plans to launch them from a pad that hasn’t been used [...]
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has unveiled his space travel company Blue Origin’s new rocket – as well as launch plans from Cape Canaveral September 15, 2015 Amazon’s Jeff Bezos unveiled his space exploration company Blue Origin’s new rocket, announcing plans to fly from a classic launch pad in Cape Canaveral in Florida. The space travel startup announced a $200m investment to build a rocket manufacturing plant in the area, with plans to launch them from a pad that hasn’t been used [...]
SpaceX is getting ready to launch its Falcon Heavy – the world’s most powerful operational rocket September 8, 2015 Not one to be perturbed by a couple of missed landings, SpaceX – the space company founded by Tesla entrepreneur Elon Musk – has announced plans to attempt one of its boldest rocket launches yet: sending the Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful rocket, into space for the first time. At a conference in [...]
Nasa’s extraordinarily detailed photo reveals what Earth looks like from a million miles away July 21, 2015 For the first time ever, humans can see what the entire sunlit side of the Earth looks like from a million miles away, and the quality is staggering. This morning, Nasa released a photo taken by a camera attached to its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which was sent up into space in [...]
Four business books to read this summer July 12, 2015 Develop a subscription service from your sunlounger. Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg founded an online bookclub, promising to read a new book every two weeks. From Jeff Bezos to Zappos’s Tony Hsieh, many top business leaders are bound by a love of books. It can be hard to pack 400 pages into a punishing [...]