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- The shocking stupidity of the smart meter system | Letters Wed, 15 May 24, 2:00amJim Fleming notes that the European Space Agency can wake up a satellite but his power supplier cannot wake up his smart meters. Plus letters from Andrew Warren and David Redshaw
- Odysseus Achieves First Ever Private Lunar Soft Landing Sat, 24 Feb 24, 1:00amAn exciting new milestone in the quest to conquer space.
- Next frontier in government waste: Giant space mirrors could beam the sun onto solar panels Tue, 16 Jan 24, 6:27amBy Jo Nova We know it’s a cult when we have thousands of years of nuclear power available but scientists want to build giant mirrors in space to reflect the sun onto solar panels on Earth.
- Another Warning Shot from Space: Melbourne, Australia Experiences a “Loud Bang” Fri, 20 Oct 23, 8:00amWhy are we wasting resources on the imaginary climate crisis, when there are real threats to address?
- NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room Mon, 25 Sep 23, 11:00amCongratulations to the OSIRIS-REx team on a picture-perfect mission – the first American asteroid sample return in histor
- Tim Peake backs idea for solar farms in space as costs fall Mon, 18 Sep 23, 3:37amAstronaut says rockets from Elon Musk’s SpaceX can reduce price of launching equipment
- Concerns Over Interstellar SUVs: Greenhouse Gas Fears Reach a Cosmic Scale Sat, 15 Jul 23, 3:40amIt might not be long before we see the Milky Way's first interplanetary carbon tax
- Could space-based solar power be future of clean energy? Fri, 3 Feb 23, 4:30amSpace-based solar power is the cool technology of the future, although the concept was conceived hundreds of years ago. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian scientist, proposed the idea of harnessing space-based solar power...
- ‘So the next step is space, right?’: Australia’s first female astronaut on the year she realised limits don’t exist Sat, 31 Dec 22, 1:00amMeganne Christian is training for the ‘coolest job in the world’. It’s a long way from Wollongong for the 35-year-old scientist
- Space Based Solar Power: Like Terrestrial Solar, but More Expensive Wed, 21 Dec 22, 5:00am"... we think we can build and commission a 2GW power station every year. ..."
- Apollo 17: 50th Anniversary of the Most Successful Manned Space Mission… So Far Thu, 8 Dec 22, 1:00amGuest “What a field trip!” by David Middleton On December 7, 1972 (a date which should no longer “live in infamy”) at 12:33 a.m. EST astronauts Gene Cernan, Harrison “Jack”…
- Good Citizen China carelessly crashes 23 tons of space junk on Earth, gets lucky, but 300 flights in Spain delayed Sat, 5 Nov 22, 6:20amBy Jo Nova Well that was lucky. Early reports suggest the Chinese space junk from the launch four days ago has crashed in the Pacific 1,000 km short of Mexico. However, if I am reading those maps (below) correctly, on this...
- Beam me down: can solar power from space help solve our energy needs? Sun, 9 Oct 22, 10:00pmThe latest developments in solar tech offer potential solutions to the energy security crisis – including satellites that would convert sunlight into power for Earth
- 26-year-old engineer plans to make solar energy at night Fri, 16 Sep 22, 5:30amTons of Mirrors, an energy company that focuses on making solar energy cheaper and accessible, plans to make sunlight a 24-hour phenomenon. The company CEO Ben Nowack is a 26-year-old technology innovator who previously worked...
- Scientists discover potential planets suitable for life Sat, 10 Sep 22, 5:30amA team of international researchers discovered two new "super-Earth" planets. Both planets are larger than Earth and are less than 100 light years away. And one of them may even be suitable for life.[...]