Elon Musk reveals ‘catch and quick release’ plan for SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster that uses the tower arm to grab the engine so it can ‘refly in under an hour’ Elon Musk revealed the Starship Heavy booster would be caught on its return Musk suggests using the launch tower arm used to stabilize the vehicle … Read more
Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline set to cap a £100m spending spree with two major drug deals either side of Atlantic By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 22:28 GMT, 19 December 2020 Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline is this week set to cap a £100million spending spree with two major … Read more
It is a mystery that puzzled scientists for months, but NASA has officially confirmed the object temporarily orbiting Earth is a discarded piece of the 1966 Surveyor 2 rocket. Dubbed 2020 SO, the object was first spotted by the Pan-STARRS survey in Hawaii on September 17 and initially classified as an asteroid. However, NASA’s top asteroid expert, … Read more
SpaceX launches a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record SEVENTH time ahead of first high-altitude test of its Starship prototype next week Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday It was the seventh time that particular first stage booster had been used in flight The booster has … Read more
A rocket booster flung into the abyss of space during a 1966 mission to the Moon has been caught by Earth’s gravity and will orbit our planet ‘for a few weeks’. NASA launched the Surveyor 2 mission to the Moon in 1966 but an issue mid-flight resulted in the spacecraft losing control and NASA eventually … Read more
Could a Covid booster shot revive your ailing funds? Shrewd investors target medical firms leading the hunt for a vaccine More than 100 vaccine programmes underway with 20 drugs in development British companies, including Novacyte and Avacta, have seen their shares rocket But experts warn many firm will end up spending money for no actual benefit … Read more
China’s Long March 4B rocket booster explodes into a massive cloud of orange smoke after crashing into a nearby town and narrowly missing a school China launched its Long March 4B rocket carrying a satellite into orbit Monday Shortly after the launch, the rocket booster was spotted falling back to Earth The booster veered off course … Read more
China’s Long March 4B rocket booster explodes into a massive cloud of orange smoke after crashing into a nearby town and narrowly missing a school China launched its Long March 4B rocket carrying a satellite into orbit Monday Shortly after the launch, the rocket booster was spotted falling back to Earth The booster veered off course … Read more
Can you possibly imagine Margaret Thatcher ever having had to reassure her audience that she was ‘not a Communist’? The Iron Lady, after all, made her name by standing up to Communism wherever she encountered it, whether in the Kremlin or the hard Left British trade unions whose leaders she crushed. Yet Boris Johnson, in … Read more
Glaxosmithkline pledges 1 billion doses of special chemical to improve effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 28 May 2020 Glaxosmithkline has delivered a major boost in the search for Covid-19 vaccines, vowing to pump out one billion doses of a … Read more