SPHEREx – Discovering Our Cosmic Origins
- 24th Feb 2025
- Author: Katie Holland
After more than a decade in the making, NASA’s SPHEREx is set to launch at the beginning of March 2025, surveying the skies to determine our Universe’s origins.
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Blue Origin New Glenn, Blue Origin's Flagship Launch Vehicle
- 8th Oct 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is set to launch no earlier than November 2024, carrying a Blue Ring spacecraft platform. But who are Blue Origin? And what celestial targets do they have their sights on?
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National Space Centre Mission Europa
- 1st Oct 2024
- Author: Katie Holland
Europa Clipper is the newest mission to the smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moons. But what is there to learn about this little icy world?
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ESA Hera: ESA's Mission to a Damaged Asteroid
- 23rd Sep 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
Hera is ESA's mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, to investigate the recent impact of NASA's DART spacecraft, helping to save planet Earth from future hazardous asteroids.
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NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
- 29th Apr 2024
- Author: Katie Holland
Could China become the second country to land people on the Moon?
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ESA Orbits and Their Descriptions
- 19th Feb 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
We often talk about satellites, but what do all their different orbits mean? What's the difference between a Lagrange Point and a GEO?
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NASA 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?
