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The moon, Mars and beyond… the space race in 2020

05/01/202005/01/2020admin

Not since the 1960s have we witnessed such appetite for space missions. Here’s what to expect in the year ahead, from commercial launches to Chinese ambitions. Space missions of a startling variety and ambition are scheduled for launch this year. Indeed, space engineers have not planned so much activity – for both manned and robot […]

Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience

12/11/2015admin

Since it began operations in December 2009, NASA’s NEOWISE mission has observed 158,000 asteroids and discovered more than 35,000. The NEOWISE mission hunts for near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Funded by NASA’s NEO Observations Program, the NEOWISE mission uses images taken by the spacecraft to look for asteroids and […]

Crowdfunding to save the world: asteroid defence body seeks $200k

13/05/2015admin

Emergency Asteroid Defence Project needs funding for its research into spaceships that can ‘deflect or disperse’ asteroids and comets. Deflecting asteroids before they smash into the earth and kill hundreds of millions of people? That’s what Bruce Willis is for, surely? But now there’s an alternative strategy being touted by a body called the Emergency […]