All good things come to an end. As it neared the depletion of its fuel, NASA decided to destroy the CASSINI craft in a planned fiery atmospheric entry, rather than have the spacecraft crash into one of Saturn’s moons, potentially contaminating it. The CASSINI...
With Hurricane Irma bearing down on Florida and little chance for another attempt the following day, at 1400 GMT, 7 September, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted-off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, United States. The mission was for the US Air Force (USAF)...
While Atlantic Hurricane Harvey soon found itself downgraded to “just” a tropical storm, it soon became one of the most violent to visit the shores of Texas. For the storm brought over 50 inches of rainfall – the equivalent of about four years...
On 21 August 2017, citizens of the United States were able to observe a total eclipse of the sun from their own country. The landfall of the eclipse track started in Oregon on the west coast (at 1015 local time – 1715 GMT) and raced eastwards across the nation in a...
It is not just strangely attired types that turn up at the UK general election constituency results (see earlier story), official ones also take part in formal government ceremonies. These include “Black Rod”, who sounds more like a character out of a dodgy movie....
At 0300 GMT, a Long March 4B (CZ-4B) rocket lifted off from the Jiuguan Satellite Launch Center, China, carrying the long-delayed HXMT (Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope) payload. The mission was initially scheduled to launch in 2010, but had been delayed to 2015, then...
