We are cutting through the orbital debris for you. In other words, we’re keeping an eye on space news on the web so you don’t have to. Here is our round-up of the most important, and interesting, space news stories of November (space orders can be found in...
Every year Seradata Space Intelligence reports on the ‘Great Space Race’ – that is, which nation will be next to set foot on the Moon and which will be first to reach the surface of Mars. David Todd analyses the odds and picks his runners and riders from the main...
NASA has cancelled its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project 14 months before the golf-cart sized rover, which has already been completed, was set to launch. The news, announced in a teleconference on 17 July, sent shockwaves around the space...
When H G Wells imagined a species of space creatures called Selenites living under the lunar surface in his sci-fi novel The First Men in The Moon, it was still unknown if such spaces even existed. While lunar sink holes and pits have long been accepted as part of the...
The Chang’e 6 mission is under way. Its goal is to be the first to bring back a sample from the far side of the Moon. It uses backup hardware originally designed for the near side version of this mission, Chang’e 5, which flew in November 2020. Ahead of the mission, a...
The cost of NASA’s Mars Sample Return project has doubled from a projected US$5.3 billion to US$11 billion, prompting many to question whether it is worth continuing with the mission. In response, the US space agency has turned to its field centres for cost cutting...
