Aeronautics & Aerospace

Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry

The Conversation: The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday 11 July,…

Rats took over this Pacific island. Now drones are leading the fightback

Wired UK: When the people who would become the first Polynesian islanders ventured out into the remote Pacific some 3,000 years ago, they took three main animals with them; pigs,…

The Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious glitch in a decade and NASA really wants to fix it

Space.com: The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious malfunction in more than a decade, and while NASA is eager to restore the iconic observatory, the agency…

Greening Air Travel Through Sustainable Fuels Will Be A Tough Climb

Forbes: As concerns about Covid-19 slowly fade, the skies are becoming friendlier again, with domestic flight traffic creeping up toward pre-pandemic levels. But it’s not there yet. By March 2021, passenger traffic increased by 30% from last month, and airlines…