Elon Musk once branded Jeff Bezos a ‘dilettante’ of space exploration, but the Blue Origin founder is poised to beat SpaceX to Mars. NASA announced Wednesday that it will send two scientific spacecraft to the Red Planet aboard the first Blue Origin New Glenn rocket in August 2024 – a contract that costs $20 […]
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WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are asking NASA not to slow down work on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program now while also lobbying fellow members to provide more money for the effort in 2024. In a Nov. 21 letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, six members of California’s congressional […]
WASHINGTON — NASA expects that a Mars smallsat mission will be on the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle within a year, although with some risk about whether the rocket will be ready in time. NASA selected Blue Origin in February to launch the Escape and Plasma […]
The guidelines for naming a planet’s surface features are not inclusive enough and are biased towards men, an academic has said, as research shows fewer than 2% of Mars’s craters are named after women. An analysis of the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) database has also revealed that only 32 (2%) […]
Deal announcements are meant to explain rather than confuse. Citigate, communications adviser to Hotel Chocolat, outdid itself with an email to the media in which the founder of the confectionery company, Angus Thirlwell, mysteriously rambles on about Queen Bee and Beekeeper. Maybe he and the Hotel Chocolat board are so […]
By Eirian Jane Prosser and Jane Denton Updated: 14:47 GMT, 16 November 2023 Mars will buy Hotel Chocolat in a staggering £534million cash deal to help boost the luxury British chocolate brand expansion overseas. The co-founders of Hotel Chocolat, Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris, will each get £144million after agreeing […]
LIVE By Live Commentary Updated: 08:35 GMT, 16 November 2023 The FTSE 100 will open at 8am. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are IDS, Young’s, City Pubs, Hotel Chocolat, Burberry, Amigo Holdings and Aviva. Read the Thursday 16 November Business Live blog below. > If you are […]
HAMBURG, Germany — NASA is slowing down work on Mars Sample Return (MSR) amid uncertainty about its budget for next year and an ongoing review of alternative architectures for the program. Speaking at a meeting of NASA’s Planetary Science Advisory Committee, or PAC, Nov. 13, Sandra Connelly, deputy associate administrator […]