Northern Taurid Meteor Shower 2024
- 20th Oct 2024
- Author: David Southworth (updated by Dhara Patel)
Join stargazers across the globe to gaze upon the annual Taurid meteor shower – active in October and November.
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Pavel Danilyuk (public domain) Who owns space?
- 9th Oct 2024
- Author: Jasneet Kaur
What are the rules when exploring and operating in space and who decides what they are?
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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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National Space Centre British Science Fiction Technology
- 21st Sep 2024
- Author: Emma Mosley
Ahead of our BritSciFi weekend, we’ve been looking at technologies used in British Science Fiction shows that exist in real life!
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Bob Hines/NASA Stranded In Space
- 9th Sep 2024
- Author: Joseph Walters
Astronauts stranded in space - how does an eight-day mission turn into eight months?
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NASA/Bill Ingalls A Brief History of Space Travel
- 21st Aug 2024
- Author: David Southworth
Join us for a whistlestop tour through the history of human space flight, and some brief thoughts on what might come next
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Polaris Program/John Kraus Polaris Dawn
- 19th Aug 2024
- Author: Ed Kellond-Turner
The Polaris Program hopes to demonstrate operational capabilities that will help further human exploration to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
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NASA Astrolympics
- 11th Aug 2024
- Author: Sophie Allan
What would the Olympic records be if the games took place on the Moon and Mars?
