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PRIMARY school pupils had a space and science themed week to spread the word about reducing plastic and doing their bit for the environment. They teamed up with the Cornish Waste Company and hosted NASA's Paul Brundage and Learning By Questions (LBQ) ambassador ad author Kate Brindle, who read stories ahout space to the children. Ambassadors from various fields also attended and taught the children how to make space games, including how to manufacture rockets, spacesuits, and solar systems out of fruit. St Bede's also got funding from the Engineering Education Grant Scheme of the Inst...

There isn’t any oxygen in space, and yet one Israeli startup has found a way around that problem, developing a technology that can produce oxygen from lunar soil. The project, Helios, was recently granted funding from the Israeli Space Agency and the Ministry of Energy to develop a system that will be launched in two space missions over the next three years.  Helios' technology will produce oxygen from the lunar surface through a soil-fed reactor in addition to other various metals. The process does not require consumable materials from Earth, and can enable mankind to establish actual co...

Simulated lunar sand melted at 1600 degrees celsius by Helium to develop oxygen (Courtesy) An Israeli startup, Helios, says it has developed technology that can produce oxygen needed for fuel from the lunar soil. This will make multiple and long-term missions to the moon economically viable, as it will allow moon colonies to “live off the land” instead of having to carry all of their fuel and other resources from Earth. The initiative has been awarded funding from the Israeli Space Agency and the Energy Ministry to develop a system that will be launched in two space missions over the next...

Background In 2013, the African Union adopted the Africa Agenda 2063 as the main compass to guide its strategic focus for the following 50 years. The African scientific community has developed Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa (STISA-2024) as the scientific implementation leg of the Agenda 2063. Both the Agenda 2063 underscore the critical role of space in addressing development challenges, and hence identified an African Outer Space programme as one of the flagships. This is also well reflected in the pillars of STISA-2024. This is a strong indication from the highest a...

0 April 8, 2021 12:12 by Matthew Bird Christina Giallombardo Looking up at the night sky with the naked eye and seeing nothing but darkness and a few stars, it’s hard to imagine the sheer volume of space debris (also known as space junk) orbiting the Earth. The space junkyard gives us a glimpse back in time. The orbiting debris is a disarray of past missions to space, including 1950 discarded rocket stages and defected satellites, as well as a plethora of shrapnel. The near 9000 tons of space debris orbits Earth in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), which is approximate...