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NZ Company reveals low cost rockets
New Zealand based company Rocket Lab has unveiled its low cost rocket, Electron, which they claim will revolutionise the commercial […]
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Dr Michelle Dickinson, a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University’s Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, spoke to TV3’s Firstline this morning […]
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New Zealand researchers are proposing a new method for identifying and recording Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars, anticipating there could […]
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UK SMC: Residents of the Russian city of Chelyabinsk are recovering after a meteor broke up over the city causing […]
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Kiwi space scientists are playing a key role in the fist commercial space mission. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was […]
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Two solar flares that occurred on the sun on 7 March have caused a large cloud of charged particles (a […]
Continue readingAll eyes on the sky for satellite re-entry
Our friends at the Australian Science Media Centre have collected useful background, resources and commentary ahead of the re-entry: NASA’s […]
Continue readingObserving Earth from above: remote sensing and satellite data
UPDATE: ATV Launch successful (see below) This week, top scientists from the European Space Agency are in New Zealand for […]
Continue reading3 News: Kiwi scientists aiding NASA’s new space shuttle design – Video
University of Canterbury scientists are helping their NASA counterparts to design new types of scramjets – super-fast planes which could […]
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