It is, of course, posterity that gets the final say on whether a U.S. President was any good or not, but as he leaves office we can, at least, make a preliminary comparison of President Barack Obama’s record against that of his immediate predecessor, George W....
The Lucy mission, to be launched in 2021, was one of two missions to be selected for Discovery mission funding out of five contenders. The other winning contender was the Psyche mission which will be launched in 2023. Both missions are asteroid related. Lucy is...
A robot arm drill used on the Mars Opportunity Rover to bore out powder samples from rocks for analysis is reported to be suffering from a serious fault. The fault apparently involves loss of drill in and out feed movement (drill rotation is unaffected). The problem,...
The cause of the failure of the ESA ExoMars mission’s Schiaparelli landing on the planet Mars has been found. It was the inertial measurement unit (IMU) what done it! The investigation and computer simulation showed a satisfactory re-entry into the Martian...
The election of maverick businessman and official Republican candidate, Donald Trump, as president-elect, like the UK’s vote for “Brexit”, was seen as a “revolt against the establishment”. But what will this mean for the US space programme and the space industry as a...
While spaceflight has been previously of only minor interest to the leading pair of US Presidential hopefuls, Hillary Clinton (Democrat) and Donald Trump (Republican), a sudden realisation that to win the US Presidency both need to win the state of Florida has made...
