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Three robotic explorers launched by three different nations are due to reach Mars within days of each other, after hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space. The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter, called Hope, reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo, Tianwen-1. NASA’s rover, Perseverance, will arrive a week later, on … Read more
China shares incredibly detailed photo of Mars as its Tianwen-1 spacecraft inches closer to landing on the Red Planet Black and white photograph was published by the Chinese space agency It was snapped from a distance of 1.4million miles away from the Martian surface The uncrewed Tianwen-1 launched on July 23, 2020 and projected to land in May … Read more
NASA’s Hubble spacecraft discovers evidence of a WEATHER system on nearby ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanet – despite blistering surface temperatures of 2,192°F Researchers examined images of WASP-31b taken by the Hubble telescope WASP-31b is an extremely hot ‘puffy planet’ 1,305 light years away from Earth It is tidally locked, with one side facing the star and the … Read more
Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency team up to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft engine that could get us to Mars in just three months The firms will explore the potential of nuclear power as a source of energy A nuclear-powered spacecraft engine could cut journey times to Mars in half They could also reduce the dose of … Read more
Government announces new spacecraft to track down comets and map them in 3D will be built in Britain By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:01 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 14 December 2020 A new spacecraft to track down comets and map them in 3D will be built in Britain, … Read more
NASA prepares for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu with OSIRIS-REX mission where its robotic arm will collect rock samples during brief contact before launching back into space NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready to reach out its robotic arm and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu’s surface 200 million miles away from Earth Tuesday evening … Read more
NASA will ‘tag’ the Bennu asteroid later tonight, taking a sample of rock from its boulder-strewn surface and returning it to Earth in about three years. The space agency’s van-sized OSIRIS-REx craft will touch down for a handful of seconds on the space rock following a carefully orchestrated 4.5-hour descent. The spaceship is scheduled to … Read more
There are three major missions bound for Mars in the space of just 10 days this month – the UAE’s Hope orbiter, China’s Tianwen-1 craft and NASA’s Perseverance rover. The countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a relatively short journey. July 20: Hope (UAE) The 3,000lb (1,350kg) craft (pictured) … Read more
NASA has started work on a spaceship that will be sent to explore a metal-rich asteroid called Psyche that could be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion. There are so many precious metals buried within the asteroid that it could make every single person on Earth a billionaire if it were to be returned to the planet. … Read more
Foam-spewing spacecraft could collect space junk ‘like a spider web’ and toss pieces into Earth’s atmosphere to burn Space junk in orbit continues to multiply and a Russian startup has a solution Foam Debris Catcher is a series of small and autonomous satellites Inside the device is a sticky polymer foam that it uses to catch … Read more