The Chinese commercial launch firm iSpace is once again putting satellites into orbit. The company’s sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 2:00 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT, 3:00 p.m. Beijing time) on Sunday (Dec. 17). Aboard was the recoverable Di’er-1 (DEAR-1) test […]
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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Reuters has this dispatch from Kyiv on now Ukraine plans to celebrate Christmas. Ukrainians are gearing up to celebrate their first Christmas according to a new calendar, another step towards erasing all traces of Russian influence […]
England cricketer Stuart Broad was awarded second place at the ceremony, with world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson coming third. Wheelchair tennis player Alfie Hewett, golf star McIlroy and jockey Dettori were also shortlisted for the public-voted award. Speaking after her success, Earps said: “I feel a bit sick actually! I’m […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Blue Origin’s tourism rocket — designed to vault paying customers on brief trips to the edge of space — successfully launched Tuesday morning on an uncrewed science mission. The New Shepard […]
Pre-Christmas sales may be starting in the High Street. But a ‘50 per cent off’ sale launched at Harvey Nichols last week is the one raising eyebrows. At this time of year, the Knightsbridge department store should be crammed with moneyed customers willing to splash a pile of cash at […]
Jeff Bezos’ space company successfully launched a rocket carrying experiments on Tuesday, its first flight since engine trouble caused a crash more than a year ago. The New Shepard rocket soared from West Texas, lifting a capsule full of tests, many of which were aboard the failed Blue Origin launch […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its space tourism rocket Tuesday following a 15-month suspension due to a previous craft malfunction. New Shepard took off at 11:43am ET from the firm’s West Texas facility and carried science experiments – no humans were on board. The reusable rocket, named after Alan Shepard, the first American […]
WASHINGTON — SpaceX ended an 11-day hiatus in launches late Dec. 18 with a successful Starlink mission, but the gap likely means the company will fall just short of its goal of 100 Falcon launches this year. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 49 at Cape Canaveral […]