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Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag
1969 and all that, or why NASA shouldn't be all about lunar footprints
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Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who
Something for the Weekend, Sir?Of course the ticket's real: it says 'Pan Am' at the top, doesn't it?
19 Jul 09:41 |
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Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book
There's a bit more to it than leaning down and fumbling for reset switch, though
17 Jul 08:46 |
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Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost
PicWait, did we get that the right way around?
17 Jul 05:58 |
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Experts: No need to worry about Europe's navigation sats going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!
Galileo, Galileo... time to stop doing the fandango and get on with the global positioning
17 Jul 04:53 |
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SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule
Anyone up for a second-hand SuperDraco? Slightly singed?
16 Jul 20:00 |
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50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon
Mind that pocket, Neil... oops
16 Jul 15:15 |
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All change at NASA while Proton launches and India's Moon dream suffers a snag
RoundupAlso: Virgin Orbit demonstrates it can drop stuff off a 747
16 Jul 10:30 |
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Humans may be able to live on Mars within halls of aerogel – a wonder material that can trap heat and block radiation
Just build houses near the ice caps to produce water and grow food. Easy!
16 Jul 01:18 |
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Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days
*Timing Is Terrible Say Users Plaintively
15 Jul 11:49 |
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Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time
Pic'Spooky action' caught on camera – see it for yourself
13 Jul 05:47 |
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Ex-NASA Mars InSight contractor sets legal eagles on JPL over whistleblower sacking
Hot on heels of $1.5m win against his employers
13 Jul 00:01 |
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Hayabusa2 stirs up rubble on surface of Ryugu, pokes asteroid with sampling horn
Second successful excursion for JAXA boffins
12 Jul 15:30 |
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Gone in 120 seconds: Arianespace aims for stars, misses, as UAE satellite launch fails
Vega or bust. Bust then
11 Jul 10:50 |
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Apollo at 50? How about 40 years since Skylab smacked into Australia
How the Sun and a delayed Space Shuttle led to the crash landing of Skylab in Oz
11 Jul 06:13 |
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Grav-wave eggheads come closer to nailing down Hubble's Constant – the universe's speedy rate of expansion
Not growing quite as fast as your Reg vulture's student debt, though
10 Jul 06:54 |
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Bloodhound gang rides again: That's the Super Sonic Car bods, not the bawdy novelty pop act
Plucky Brit Land Speed Record hopeful bankrolled for South Africa test runs in October
09 Jul 23:05 |
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Who cares about a Soyuz launch or a Vega delay when there's space gin to be had?
RoundupShetland Space Centre's sister company is a distillery. Cool
09 Jul 11:34 |
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Boffins find asteroid with the shortest solar year of any space rock in our Solar System
Kilometre-sized chunk of rock that was missed for decades
09 Jul 05:01 |
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Jodrell Bank goes full UNESCO while Dundee awaits the decomissioners
'Come to learn and be inspired about science' in Cheshire. Satellite tracking in Dundee? Nah...
08 Jul 11:30 |
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Crikey, that's FAST: China clocks 84 pulsars in 2 years using world's largest radio telescope
Tens of thousands still to find blinking in the darkness
04 Jul 10:10 |
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When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing
BT boss warns 16-min walk from current HQ to new London base 'just the tip of the iceberg'
Pair programming? That's so 2017. Try out this deep-learning AI bot that autocompletes lines of source code for you
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Finally in the UK: Apollo 11 lands... in a cinema near you
The Register goes to the flicks
04 Jul 08:15 |
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NASA smacks an Orion into the water with a successful Ascent Abort-2 Test
Parachutes not included as the Launch Abort System gets a work-out
02 Jul 14:30 |
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SARGE rocket splutters, Boeing shows us its 'chute, NASA trundles Mobile Launcher to pad
RoundupAlso, happy Asteroid Day! Let's party like it's 1908
02 Jul 11:15 |
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Has NASA's Mars Insight lander hit rock bottom? Heat probe struggles to penetrate Red Planet
Stop, hammer time
02 Jul 06:07 |
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Nah, yeah: New Zealand's Rocket Lab notches up another launch success
Launching every two weeks? Sure, so long as your satellites keep off the lard
01 Jul 11:22 |
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Look out, Titan. Plutonium robots from Earth are on their way
NASA announces plans to send RTG-powered drone to Saturn moon. Titanians only have 15 years to prepare
28 Jun 10:30 |
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Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Decommissioning to carry on while commercial interests sniff around Scottish satellite fanciers
27 Jun 09:00 |
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Vulture gets claws on Lego's latest Apollo nostalgia-fest
Hands OnPlastic-fantastic Moon shenanigans for Reg hack
26 Jun 08:10 |
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Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space
Tally ho, you can call me Buckyballs, what what
26 Jun 05:54 |
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We've Falcon caught it! SpaceX finally nets a fairing half after a successful Heavy launch
Although third time unlucky as the centre stage enjoys an explosive landing
25 Jun 10:00 |
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Sputnik? No, comrade, this is Spunknik: Frozen sperm manages to survive zero-grav in this totally realistic test
May mean humans can travel to and infect alien worlds using cryotanks of reproductive cells
25 Jun 05:57 |
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One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space
RoundupA trio of heavy lifters in rocket boffinry
24 Jun 15:00 |
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Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane
He who smelt it dealt it?
24 Jun 11:10 |
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Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims
Phone bone grown from shoddy body tone, it's shown
21 Jun 06:03 |
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Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring
Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told
21 Jun 05:06 |
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The European Space Agency is going to visit a new comet in 2028. Which one? We haven't discovered it yet
Let's hope it goes better than the Comet 67P mission, eh?
20 Jun 09:46 |
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After years of listening, we've heard not a single peep out of any aliens, say boffins. You think you can do better? OK, here's 1PB of signals
Massive data dump, code release for E.T. hunters
19 Jun 05:03 |
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What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present
RoundupAlso: The Bennu Thrill Show - coming to an asteroid near you
18 Jun 09:00 |
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Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g
But don't get too excited, it can't do much at the moment
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