Space-Based Solar Power Plants… We have lift off!

The ESA has given the green light to two concept commercial-scale power plants

Could electricity power your home from space?

Scientists are investigating whether energy can be beamed wirelessly to Earth from satellites in orbit

Have you packed for a pee-powered mission to Mars?

A space technology researcher spoke to ELN about a new system that converts astronauts’ urine into fuel on Mars

Breathe in Martians!

Estonian startup aims to produce oxygen from the planet’s CO2

Space the new frontier in renewable energy?

Scots energy group and ESA team up to use satellites to improve wind farm efficiency

Scientists develop device that uses bacteria to mine rocks on Mars and the Moon

Researchers found using microbes to recover metals and minerals could be possible in all gravity conditions

European Space Agency launches new tool to combat climate change

The new technology will make it possible to track and attribute methane emissions around the world

Blue skies across Europe as coronavirus lockdown slashes air pollution

The change in the amount of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere is particularly broad in Paris, Milan and Madrid, according to the European Space Agency

Coronavirus slashes Italian emissions

Following the nationwide lockdown, a ‘massive decline of nitrogen dioxide emissions’ is particularly visible in northern Italy, according to the European Space Agency

Space-based mission aims to dodge solar flare damage

A space-based mission aims to set up an early-monitoring system for solar flares and geomagnetic storms. The European Space Agency (ESA) project, which will be led by Airbus UK, aims to put a spacecraft between the sun and the Earth to keep track of when the sun ejects material. This causes ‘space weather’, which can […]