Back to the future: UK scientists complete testing of AI-powered autonomous Mars robot January 2, 2019 To boldly go where no other robot has gone before, the UK Space Agency have finished testing a Mars rover that will be able to make its own decisions on where to explore, enabling it to travel much further than existing robots. The Martian robot will use artificial intelligence (AI) software, developed by researchers at King's College London [...]
Rosetta comet landing mission: Scientists think they’re on the brink of discovering alien life July 6, 2015 The Rosetta comet could be covered in tiny alien life forms, scientists involved in the European Space Agency's comet-landing mission reckon. Read more: Hope for the Rosetta comet-landing mission: Philae wakes up and sends signal to earth, European Space Agency says Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and Dr Max Wallis from the University of Cardiff believe [...]
Here’s everything you need to know about the EU’s Sentinel Earth-watching mission June 23, 2015 Late last night, the EU launched the Sentinel-2a satellite into space, from where it will take detailed photos of the world's food crops. Read more: How to stop climate change: Drop the hamburger The satellite was developed by the European Space Agency, and was sent up from Kourou in French Guiana aboard a Vega [...]
Hope for the Rosetta comet-landing mission: Philae wakes up and sends signal to earth, European Space Agency says June 14, 2015 The Philae probe that landed on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November has finally woken up from hibernation. According to the European Space Agency, which launched the Rosetta space mission to land on a comet in 2004, the probe radioed the agency this weekend for the first time in seven months. Read more: Rosetta takes a selfie in [...]
Rosetta mission: The European Space Agency is hoping comet lander Philae is about to wake up March 16, 2015 The European Space Agency is eagerly awaiting signs that the Rosetta probe Philae – which successfully landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November – is about to wake up. It was an historic moment last autumn when the signal was received in ESA's German mission centre that the probe had landed on the comet's surface. But [...]
ESA races ahead in space travel with Europe’s first space taxi launch February 9, 2015 Until its Space Shuttle programme was closed down in 2007, the US was the dominant force in the development of space taxis. Operated by Nasa, the 40-metre-long vehicles delivered satellites into space, conducted science experiments in orbit and helped construct the International Space Station. At the time, Europe had created nothing capable of [...]
Sainsbury’s Christmas advert, forex fines, Rosetta and the Double Donut Burger: 10 things we learned this week November 14, 2014 1. Sainsbury's has stolen the Christmas ad crown from John Lewis. Maybe. But have either of them done enough to be considered for our Christmas ad hall of fame, which includes a 1950s Coca-Cola number and the 1992 Yellow Pages classic? 2. Bankers' forex rigging was £1.1bn of bad. RBS, HSBC, UBS, JPMorgan and [...]
Here’s what you should know about the tattooed Londoner who landed Rosetta on a comet November 13, 2014 He's been trending on Twitter all day – the tattooed physicist from East London who was one of the key scientists behind yesterday's comet landing. Dr Matt Taylor is a project scientist for the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission, and he was so confident that it would prove successful that in January, he had [...]
Rosetta mission 2014 in pictures: ESA spaceship lands philae on comet 67P for first time ever November 13, 2014 After a fraught wait, this morning the European Space Agency (ESA) received confirmation: we did it. Humans have landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time ever. Having spent 10 years travelling through the solar system, the ESA Rosetta spaceship finally made it to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Yesterday afternoon was a crucial [...]
Did Rosetta land on comet 67P? ESA mission probe briefly bounced off but has just touched down again November 13, 2014 Humankind landed a spacecraft on a comet for the first time ever yesterday – and has now done it again. The European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta landing probe touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after spending seven hours descending from the mothership, sending a confirmation signal to Earth at 16:05 UK time yesterday. [...]