Intuitive Machines - IM-1 mission
- 7th Feb 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Another private company, Intuitive Machines, attempts to land on the Moon in 2024 - but will it be the first to succeed?
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Astrobotic Technology Peregrine Mission 1
- 8th Jan 2024
- Author: Dhara Patel
Others have tried, but will Astrobotic’s Peregrine mission triumph in becoming the first private mission to successfully land on the Moon?
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NASA What’s Happening in Space in 2024
- 28th Dec 2023
- Author: Alex Thompson
Are you ready for arguably the biggest year for space in over fifty years?
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ESA 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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Stephen Rahn (Public domain) Solar System Summer: Venus
- 26th Jul 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis - Education Presenter
Known as the Earth's twin, Venus is far from the habitable and pleasant world that ours is.
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NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI Solar System Summer: Pluto
- 22nd Jun 2023
- Author: Elspeth Lewis
Just because it is no longer classed as a planet, doesn’t mean that Pluto isn’t worth learning about.
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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.
