UK Space Agency funds tech for orbital awareness

UK approves another COVID vaccine as its new virus variant shows up in US

Enlarge / UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photograph with a vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 candidate vaccine. (credit: WPA Pool/Getty Images) This week, the UK released more data on the newly evolved strain of SARS-CoV-2, providing further evidence that it spreads more readily than previously circulating strains of the virus. Despite […]

Rocket Report: Russia responds to Western sanctions, UK spaceport moves ahead

Enlarge / As the space world watched Russia threaten to withhold Soyuz launches, SpaceX causally sent its ninth rocket of 2022 into orbit on Thursday, another batch of Starlink satellites. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica) Welcome to Edition 4.34 of the Rocket Report! There is a famous quote said by Vladimir Lenin, of all […]

Darwin’s missing notebooks returned to Cambridge Univ. Library after 20 years

Two notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin, one of which contains his iconic 1837 “Tree of Life” sketch, have been safely returned to Cambridge University Library, more than two decades after first being reported missing. Twenty years ago, two small notebooks written by 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin mysteriously disappeared from the archives of Cambridge University Library. One […]