Beagle 2 - 20 years later
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
20 years ago, Beagle 2 (a feat of British engineering) journeyed to Mars but didn’t phone home to say it landed. What happened to Beagle 2?
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NASA Space Highlights 2023
- 6th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
2023 was a Lucy-JUICEy kind of year for space, let’s look back at some of the highlights!
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NASA/ JPL- Caltech/ASU/Peter Rubin Psyche Mission
- 26th Sep 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
The Psyche mission will study an asteroid that may be very similar to the core of the Earth and other rocky planets.
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ISRO Chandrayaan-3: India’s first soft landing on the Moon?
- 13th Jul 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Will the Indian Space Research Organisation become the fourth nation to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon with their Chandrayaan-3 mission?
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SpaceX SpaceX – The World’s Rocket Giant
- 26th Jan 2023
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
SpaceX has racked up some incredible achievements over 20 plus years. We delve into the past, present and the future of the rocket giant.
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NASA/Johns Hopkins APL DART: The First Asteroid Deflection Mission
- 27th Sep 2022
- Author: Catherine Muller
Launched on 24 November 2021, NASA’s DART Mission to asteroid Dimorphos is the first test of Earth-defence technology.
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NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester) The Planets: Jupiter
- 26th Sep 2022
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
What Juno about Jupiter? Your one stop shop for everything you need to know about the king of the planets.
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Curiosity Rover: 10 Years on Mars
- 4th Aug 2022
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
On 6 August 2022, the famous ‘Happy Birthday’ singing rover celebrates a staggering 10 years of operation on Mars.
