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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 orbit remains 'years behind schedule'
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 space missions
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
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
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
Space Tech Gets £2m Funding And Earth Observation Portal
The government is aiming to boost development of UK technologies based on earth observation satellites
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
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
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 digital radio broadcasts in the UK
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 congressional trade ban
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 of a black hole
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
Microsoft’s HoloLens Will Be Used By NASA In Space
WATCH: International Space Station reveals video showing astronauts training with HoloLens in parabolic flight
Airbus To Build Fleet Of 900 Internet Satellites
OneWeb selects Airbus Defence and Space as manufacturing partner for 2018 satellite constellation launch
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 Earth
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
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
In Pictures: Astronaut Launches HP’s Water-Cooled Apollo
Space legend Story Musgrave unveils HP's water-cooled Apollo 8000 supercomputer
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
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
NASA: In Space No One Can Afford To Fail
We can all learn from how NASA plans for failures, says Sean Michael Kerner
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
Met Office To Use MongoDB For Space Weather Forecasts
The open source NoSQL database will help predict solar flares
UK To Invest £200 Million In Space Technology
Reusable rocket engines and satellite tools could help the UK conquer the final frontier
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
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
International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian
Laptops in Earth's orbit will run Linux
ISS Astronauts To Host A Google+ Hangout
Google’s social network commands a huge market share in space
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