Space

Latest SpaceX Funding Round Could Value Company At £28bn

Elon Musk's rocket company looks to raise additional $250m as it builds satellite broadband network, NASA orbital vehicle and Mars…

5 years ago

SpaceX Shows ‘Starship’ Mars Rocket Prototype

Giant stainless-steel space vehicle is set to begin tests in the coming weeks, as SpaceX system for delivering crew to…

5 years ago

HPE Supercomputer Is Big Step Towards Building Tech For Mission To Mars

HPE and NASA hope Spaceborne computer will work in space for a whole year, paving the way for long range…

7 years ago

Queen’s Speech Targets Data Protection, Driverless Cars, And Space Travel

Brexit focus, but tech still features in Queen's speech, including new data protection laws and driverless cars

8 years ago

Quest For Global Wi-Fi Could Result In Explosion Of Space Junk

European Space Agency calls for measures to prevent 50 percent increase in catastrophic satellite collisions

8 years ago

Hack Attacks On Satellites Pose ‘Catastrophic’ Risk To The World

Chatham House researchers warn space assets are ripe targets for cyber criminals, hackers and terrorists

8 years ago

Space Tech Gets £2m Funding And Earth Observation Portal

The government is aiming to boost development of UK technologies based on earth observation satellites

8 years ago

Elon Musk, SpaceX, Artificial Intelligence And Iain M Banks

BLOG: The story behind Musk's intriguing names for SpaceX's Falcon 9 landing drone ships

9 years ago

BBC Will Live-Stream Scotland V England Six Nations Match To Space

British astronaut will be able to watch the six nations match live from International Space Station

9 years ago

Decommissioned GPS Satellite Knocked Out UK Digital Radio Broadcasts

A GPS satellite taken out of service last week by the US Air Force caused a software glitch that affected…

9 years ago

Amazon Founder Signs Deal To Develop American-Made Rocket Engines

Bezos' Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance will co-develop rocket engine based on Russian RD-180, no longer available since a…

9 years ago

Helium Hard Drives Capturing The Supermassive Black Hole In The Centre Of The Galaxy

HGST to deploy helium drives that function better than air-filled HDDs at high-altitude observatories to store data from the edge…

9 years ago

Inmarsat Gets European Space Agency Backing For Mobile Satellite Services

ESA funding for Inmarsat will go on study looking at next generation of mobile satellite technologies

9 years ago

Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Be Used By NASA In Space

WATCH: International Space Station reveals video showing astronauts training with HoloLens in parabolic flight

10 years ago

Airbus To Build Fleet Of 900 Internet Satellites

OneWeb selects Airbus Defence and Space as manufacturing partner for 2018 satellite constellation launch

10 years ago

SpaceX Files Satellite Broadband Application

Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to the FCC for a trial of two satellites that will beam down broadband to…

10 years ago

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Completes Test Flight Of New Spacecraft

Amazon founder's Blue Origin space firm carries out maiden test flight of re-usable spacecraft in Texas

10 years ago

Fancy Making Contact With Little Green Men?

UK space organisations team up with Raspberry Pi offer kids the chance to send your computer code into space

10 years ago

In Pictures: Astronaut Launches HP’s Water-Cooled Apollo

Space legend Story Musgrave unveils HP's water-cooled Apollo 8000 supercomputer

11 years ago

Winklevoss Twins Use Bitcoin To Pay For Virgin Galactic Space Trip

The twins who claim to have invented Facebook praise the spirit of exploration, compare Richard Branson to Marco Polo

11 years ago

UAE Alleges US Backdoors Found In Its Spy Satellites

The United Arab Emirates has allegedly discovered two US-supplied 'security compromising components' in French-provided military satellites

11 years ago

NASA: In Space No One Can Afford To Fail

We can all learn from how NASA plans for failures, says Sean Michael Kerner

11 years ago

Stuxnet Infected Russian Nuclear Plant, International Space Station, Claims Kaspersky

According to the charismatic CEO, malware created to disrupt Iranian nuclear research has travelled to space

11 years ago

Met Office To Use MongoDB For Space Weather Forecasts

The open source NoSQL database will help predict solar flares

11 years ago

UK To Invest £200 Million In Space Technology

Reusable rocket engines and satellite tools could help the UK conquer the final frontier

11 years ago

PayPal To Take Its Payment Platform To Space

PayPal Galactic initiative will look at the challenges facing the electronic payment industry in Earth's orbit and beyond

11 years ago

Apple Plans Hiring Spree For Spaceship Campus

Apple has revealed plans to hire up to 7,400 new staff as it files documents for its new 'spaceship' campus

12 years ago

ISS Astronauts To Host A Google+ Hangout

Google’s social network commands a huge market share in space

12 years ago

IBM £26.6m Exascale Project To Power World’s Largest Radio Telescope

The Square Kilometre Array will process twice the amount of data generated on the Internet every day

13 years ago