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Space exploration

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    SpaceX abandons attempt to catch Starship booster as Trump watches

    Test was setback for owner Elon Musk, who has become an influential figure in president-elect’s transition team

    Elon Musk, pointing, next to Donald Trump
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Nuclear energy
    Rolls-Royce sets sights on providing nuclear power to space missions

    UK aerospace and engineering group in early talks over commercial opportunities for planned technology

    Spectators watch as the Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 16 2022
  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    How cold warriors used hard science

    Two revealing historical books show how the Soviet bloc weaponised space exploration and biochemistry during the cold war

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Vintage space photography is blasting off

    Images of the universe are in hot demand. Could the prices go astronomical?

    Andromeda galaxy, c1950, captured by the Mount Wilson observatory, POA, gadcollection.com
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Europe
    German space chief defends Europe investment model against Draghi’s proposal

    Former Italian PM recommended abolishing ‘georeturn’ principle in report to European Commission

    ESA satellite launcher Ariane 6 rocket taking off from Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana in July 2024
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Elon Musk’s feat of engineering

    Starship shows what the entrepreneur can achieve when he sticks to what he does best

    SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster lands in Texas during Starship’s fifth flight test
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    Musk’s SpaceX catches returning booster rocket in technical milestone

    Successful test is step forward in billionaire’s bid to create fully reusable spacecraft

    Starship’s Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Will space tourism really lift off?

    The FT’s senior science writer explores how far we can go

  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    Sinead O'Sullivan
    How Europe and the US can regain space power

    New reports on both sides of the Atlantic offer cause for concern and opportunity for change

    The four commercial crew astronauts representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission are pictured in their Dragon spacesuits for a fit check aboard the International Space Station’s Harmony module
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Astronauts complete first private spacewalk

    Polaris Dawn mission boosts prospects for space exploration missions undertaken by commercial crews

    This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Explainer
    How will Nasa return two US astronauts stranded in space?

    Agency turns to Elon Musk’s SpaceX after Boeing’s Starliner meant to take them home suffered technical problems

    Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, aboard the International Space Station’s Quest
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa turns to Musk’s SpaceX to bring stuck astronauts back to Earth

    US space agency will not use Boeing spacecraft that ferried crew to International Space Station

    Nasa administrator Bill Nelson
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Water on Mars presents scientists with an unearthly challenge

    Evidence of an underground reservoir is an obvious destination to look for life on the Red Planet

    Andy Carter illustration of a NASA lander opening Mars to see under the surface, discovering a large amount of liquid water.
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Nasa
    Nasa may ask SpaceX to retrieve astronauts stuck at space station

    US space agency is being ‘conservative’ about whether to use Boeing’s Starliner for return mission

    Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft
  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Last days of the lonely interstellar spacecraft

    When the 50-year-old Voyager probe stopped sending messages home, Nasa had a problem. No one remembered how to fix it

    A model of a Voyager spacecraft against a space backdrop
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    What do we gain from going back to the Moon?

    Nasa is leading a global race to live and work on the lunar surface. But for all the investment there are no guaranteed rewards

  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Emma Jacobs
    Would you survive 378 days of team bonding? Nasa takes the test

    Lengthy simulation of life on Mars illuminates the universal features of work, including petty irritations with colleagues

    The CHAPEA crew
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Space industry
    Europe launches countdown on its return to space

    Ariane 6 rocket must pass multiple carefully orchestrated milestones before lifting off on its first flight on Tuesday

    A test run of the Ariane 6 rocket at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, in September last year
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Boeing Company
    Boeing rejects claims Nasa crew ‘stranded’ by spacecraft

    Delayed return of Starliner from International Space Station comes at worst possible time for US aerospace group

    The two astronauts wave  as they each hold a rose
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Space Exploration Technologies Corp
    SpaceX’s Starship completes fourth test flight despite last-minute hitch

    Successful mission boosts Elon Musk’s plans to build a spacecraft able to take humans to Moon and beyond

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    China lands probe to collect first samples from far side of Moon

    Beijing hopes Chang’e-6 will help to determine whether little-known region can become lunar base

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    European Space Agency
    European Space Agency aims for own version of SpaceX

    Body awards contracts to two companies to develop cargo services to International Space Station

    The Exploration Company’s Nyx vehicle
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Rejoice! Voyager 1 is back from the dead

    The craft embodies a golden age of space exploration

    This artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft with its antennapointing to Earth
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    ReviewScience books
    Alien Earths — fascinating adventures in the cosmos

    Lisa Kaltenegger is an enthusiastic guide to the search for life beyond our planet — and the new technologies that could help it succeed

    A woman with long brown hair stands smiling in a booklined room. Next to her is a picture of the planets
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Space agencies race to find water on the moon

    Tapping supplies near the lunar south pole could be critical for future settlements

    High resolution mosaic of lunar south pole region
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