Satellites
Space One rocket explodes soon after launch in Japan
First attempt with private Kairos rocket was intended to test viability of homegrown commercial launch business
Guardian staff and agencies
13, Mar, 2024 @5:01 AM
Satellite to ‘name and shame’ worst oil and gas methane polluters
Leaks are driving 30% of the climate crisis and MethaneSat will provide the first near-comprehensive global view
Damian Carrington Environment editor
04, Mar, 2024 @1:54 PM
‘Taking the pulse of the planet’: could we monitor biodiversity from space as we do the weather?
With current data on global biodiversity either lacking or flawed, a global satellite scheme aims to fill the gaps to target protection of our seas, soils and wildlife
Patrick Greenfield
22, Feb, 2024 @6:00 AM
Uncontrolled European satellite falls to Earth after 30 years in orbit
ERS-2 breaks up into pieces and plummets into the ocean after reentering Earth’s atmosphere
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
21, Feb, 2024 @8:50 PM
Japan to launch world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution
The environmentally friendly LignoSat probe – set to orbit this summer – has been created to combat harmful aluminium particles
Robin McKie Science Editor
17, Feb, 2024 @8:00 PM
Shetland island to house UK’s first vertical rocket launch spaceport
Unst’s remote location makes it perfect place for SaxaVord site to launch rockets with greatest payloads
Donna Ferguson
17, Dec, 2023 @6:14 PM
Greenhouse gas emissions soar – with China, US and India most at fault
Satellite tracking data shows many countries and firms do not provide accurate figures
Fiona Harvey, Oliver Milman and Damian Carrington in Dubai
03, Dec, 2023 @6:01 AM
‘Nuclear tinderbox’: Kim’s threats put North Korea on wrong side of history | Simon Tisdall
As a distracted world looks elsewhere, US and China have a common interest in halting Asia’s accelerating nuclear arms race
Simon Tisdall
25, Nov, 2023 @3:50 PM
North Korean spy satellite team attend banquet with Kim Jong-un and daughter Ju Ae
Dictator seen with daughter at celebration for scientists and technicians who finally put Malligyong-1 into space after two failed attempts
Guardian staff and agencies
24, Nov, 2023 @5:05 AM
UK to build new satellite to monitor climate crisis and natural disasters
The pathfinder craft, co-funded by £3m from the UK Space Agency, will provide data to help detect and monitor natural disasters
Tom Ambrose
21, Nov, 2023 @12:01 AM
Billionaire space race: can Bezos’s Project Kuiper catch up to Musk’s Starlink?
As the world’s wealthiest men chest-thump in low-Earth orbit, others wonder how their mess will eventually be cleaned up
Adam Gabbatt
15, Oct, 2023 @11:00 AM
Amazon launches first two satellites in planned orbital internet service
Test satellites for Project Kuiper network, which will compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink, launched on Friday afternoon
Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington
06, Oct, 2023 @6:26 PM
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