• Five space missions for 2023

    Ian Whittaker     |      January 1, 2023

    Interest in the space sector remains high and with a tranche of bold advances and launches due in 2023, we are entering a new phase of progress echoing the “Golden era” of space launches in the 1960s and ’70s.

  • 6 space missions to light up 2021

    Ian Whittaker     |      January 4, 2021

    While manned missions to the Moon and Mars seem as far away as ever, there are many interesting unmanned missions planned by an ever-wider range of countries planned for 2021.

  • We can send people to Venus

    Ian Whittaker     |      October 20, 2018

    While the surface of Venus is utterly hostile, it should be possible to float in its clouds and study a planet which was once Earth’s twin and may hold clues for the future of climate change.