…– when the South Plaza is opened up. Ticket prices have not been announced for the full opening from 2014. Members of the media were given a sneak preview of the experience on Friday morning. At 114.5 metres (376 ft), the Orbit is the tallest sculpture in the UK – twice the height of Nelson’s Column. The tangled steel lattice – 63% of which is recycled steel – incorpo…
…arefully calibrated pursuit of each other. As the lead spacecraft flies through the uneven gravity field, it will experience small accelerations or decelerations. The second spacecraft, following some 100-200km behind, will detect these disturbances as very slight changes in the separation between the pair – deviations that are not much more than the width of a human red blood cell. When the…
…capsule to a speed of 5 miles per second at 30G using high-powered electromagnets. “The resources of our own solar system are vast. The energy from the Sun hitting our small planet everyday is roughly 10,000 times our current energy needs. The raw materials locked up in asteroids and comets could support economic growth for millennia to come,” say the scientists. Startram is a proposed “space tra…
…he star’s peculiar chemical composition. Spectroscopic analysis of BD+48 740 revealed that it contained an abnormally high amount of lithium, a rare element created primarily during the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. Lithium is easily destroyed in stars, so its high abundance in this ageing star is very unusual. “Theorists have identified only a few, very specific circumstances, other…
ouncil. Reports suggested this could take place later on Wednesday. The launch comes a week ahead of the South Korean presidential election and roughly a year after the death of leader Kim Jong-il, on 17 December 2011. The three-stage rocket was launched from a site on North Korea’s west coast. “The launch of the second version of our Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite from the Sohae Space Cen…
European Space Agency’s rocket Vega is finally set to make its maiden flight on Monday. 30m-tall Vega, first conceived in the 1990’s, will launch on what is termed a qualification flight from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Vega will carry nine satellites into orbit but the object of the mission is really to prove the rocket’s systems all work as designed. The vehicle has been…
The Russian Soyuz rocket system has been pressed back into service, five days after a failed launch. The vehicle successfully put six spacecraft in orbit for US satellite phone and data company, Globalstar. The Soyuz lifted away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 17:09 GMT, ejecting the last of the six Globalstar platforms an hour and 40 minutes later. Last Friday, a Soyuz malfunctione…
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The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has begun. A Falcon rocket carrying a Dragon cargo capsule lifted clear of Cape Canaveral in Florida at 20:35 (00:35 GMT). The robotic Dragon ship will deliver 400 kg of food, clothing, experiments and spares to the orbiting platform’s six astronauts. It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 miss…
…timate purpose. Tuesday’s launch had been pushed back from October, delayed by two satellite launches. Patrick Air Force Base in Florida gave notice of a hazard from a launch in a window between 10:45 to 17:15 local time. The X-37B craft, designed by aerospace giant Boeing, shares more than just a passing similarity to the now-retired space shuttle. It is just a quarter the size of the shutt…
China is about to launch its fourth manned space mission and is sending a crew of three, including the nation’s first female astronaut, to the orbiting Tiangong space lab. Chinese Shenzhou-9 capsule is set to lift off from the Jiuquan spaceport on the edge of the Gobi desert at 18:37 local time (10:37 GMT). A Long March 2F rocket will put the astronauts on a path to dock with Tiangong in a…
…arily mean it all fell into the sea, said NASA and the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center. “NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell back to Earth between 11:23 p. m. EDT Friday [3:23 a.m UTC Saturday], Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT [05:09 a.m. UTC Saturday] Sept. 24. The Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California said the sa…
…the Korean peninsula. North Korea said its scientists were assessing what had caused the failure. North Korea says the aim of the rocket was to launch a satellite into orbit – a move marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of national founder Kim Il-sung. But the US and other nations say the launch constituted a disguised test of long-range missile technology banned under UN resolutions….
Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe that’s been stuck in Earth orbit for two months has crashed down in the Pacific Ocean on late Sunday. “Phobos-Grunt fragments have crashed down in the Pacific Ocean,” Russia’s Defense Ministry official Alexei Zolotukhin told RIA Novosti, adding that the fragments fell in 1,250 kilometers to the west of the island of Wellington. The spacecraf…
…d worth nearly $1,600 an ounce. An upcoming NASA mission to return just 60g (two ounces) of material from an asteroid to Earth will cost about $1billion. The inaugural step, to be achieved in the next 18 to 24 months, would be launching the first in a series of private telescopes that would search for asteroid targets rich in resources. The intention will be to open deep-space exploration to priva…
…of the first generation of stars to burst into life. To do so, James Webb will use its infrared detectors to look deeper into space than Hubble, and further back in time – to a period more than 13 billion years ago. “The other instruments on James Webb will do massive surveys of the sky, looking for these very rare objects; they will find the candidates,” explained MIRI’s…
Supermoon – the nickname for a perigee full moon, closer to the Earth than usual – could cause tides to rise around the world as the moon’s close “fly past” exerts 42% more tidal force. The moon will appear bigger and brighter tonight – sky-watchers promise this supermoon will be 16% brighter than most when it begins today at 3:35 p.m. GMT, 11:35 a.m. EDT. At 11:34 p.m., t…
…over its entire life cycle. This includes the cost of manufacturing the spacecraft bus, or chassis, launching the satellite and operating it until 2033. This sum does not however include Juice’s 11 instruments. Funding for these comes from the member states. When this money is taken into account, the final budget for Juice is expected to be just short of 1.1 billion Euros. It has not yet bee…
Asteroid 2012 JU passed within nearly 119,000 miles of Earth on May 14, just a whisker away from us in astronomical terms. Indeed, the bus-sized asteroid came closer to us than the moon does, with our celestial partner spinning around us at a distance of 238,000 miles. Luckily, we were never in any danger from the 12-metre wide asteroid, but it is another reminder of the risk we face from these r…
Herschel space telescope in Europe has imaged one of the most popular subjects in the sky – the Horsehead Nebula – and its environs. Horsehead Nebula is a distinctively shaped molecular gas cloud sited some 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Constellation Orion. It is in a region of space undergoing active star formation – something Herschel has been most keen to study. The Hub…
…nd even from scientific sea-floor moorings that profile the ice floes as they pass overhead. “We can now say with good confidence that Cryosat’s maps of ice thickness are correct to within 10-20 cm,” said Dr. Seymour Laxon, from UCL’s Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM). Tuesday’s release shows a complete seasonal cycle, from October 2010, when the Arcti…
The latest spacecraft in Europe’s long-running Meteosat series has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket. It is now being manoeuvred into a position some 36,000 km above the Earth from where it can keep a constant watch on developing weather systems. The spacecraft is the 10th Meteosat platform to go into service since 1977. Its pictures will soon be feeding into the daily forecasts prov…
Shenzhou-9 capsule, with its crew of three, including the first Chinese woman astronaut, has docked with the Tiangong-1 space lab. The coupling of the vehicles occurred just after 14:00 Beijing time (06:00 GMT) over China itself. The latest Shenzhou mission was launched on Saturday, taking the nation’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, into orbit. Thirty-three-year old Liu Yang flies with C…
North Korea appears to be struggling to control Unha-3 satellite it put into orbit last week, a space expert has said. The Unha-3 satellite was launched on board a long-range rocket on December 12, in defiance of sanctions and international warnings. Pyongyang says the device, the size of a washing machine, is working and is beaming revolutionary songs to Earth. But US astronomer Jonathan McDowel…
Phobos-Ground, the $170 million Russian probe, is now heading back to Earth and will crash between January 6 and January 19, but it’s not possible to predict where until a few days beforehand. The Phobos-Ground craft, which was supposed to travel to Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, became stuck in Earth orbit after its thrusters failed. What’s more, one of the probe’s gauges has a small amount of…
G8 Meeting Northern Ireland: Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama admit they disagree on how to solve Syria crisisPresidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin have acknowledged at the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland that they have a different stance on Syria, but agreed to push for a summit…
Turkish government may use army to end Gezi Park protestsThe Turkish government has announced it could use the army to end nearly three weeks of unrest by Gezi Park protesters in Istanbul and other cities. The government would use…
Czech PM Petr Necas to resign over Jana Nagyova corruption and spying scandalCzech PM Petr Necas has announced that he will resign on Monday after days of political turmoil. Petr Necas’ ruling coalition will try to form a new government led by…
Istanbul mass rally for PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan amid new clashesTurkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rallied tens of thousands of supporters in Istanbul, telling them it was his duty to clear a city square that has been the…
Pope Francis blesses bikers in Sunday Mass for Harley-Davidson's 110th anniversaryPope Francis blessed crowds of motorcyclists at the Vatican for the 110th anniversary of Harley-Davidson. Leather-clad bikers lifted their arms to greet the pontiff as he…
Turkey protests: clashes continue in Istanbul after Gezi Park raid Gezi Park protesters have clashed with Turkish police in Istanbul, after riot squads used tear gas and water cannon to eject demonstrators from the park. The protesters…
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