Cathrine Versfeld
Volunteers Complete a Simulated Year on Mars
The crew of NASA’s first Mars habitat simulation, CHAPEA 1, exited their Earth-based environment after 378 days on July 6…
The Space Station Now Has Blisteringly Fast Internet
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation programme (SCaN) has demonstrated the first two way end-to-end laser relay system, deployed through an…
Chinese Astronauts Just Repaired Space Debris Damage Outside the Station
A pair of Chinese taikonauts have completed an eight-hour spacewalk repairing damage to the Tiangong Chinese Space Station's solar panels.…
27 to 78 cm of sea Level Rise Could be Locked in From Melting Greenland ice Caps
Recent climate research, published in the Nature Climate Change journal has confirmed that melting icecaps in Greenland will contribute a…
China uses drag sail to clear up space junk successfully.
Scientists at the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST) have devised an ingenious way to combat the growing problem of…
Should Low Earth Orbit be a protected environmental ecosystem?
An article published in Nature Astronomy makes a strong case to declare the orbital space around earth an ecologically protected…
The United States announces a stop to testing Anti-Satellite Weapons
The United States Government has declared that it will no longer be performing tests of Anti-Satellite (ASAT) weapons. In a…