Seeding humanity: Our fastest route to the stars?
Sebastian Evans explores the possibility of humans overcoming the challenges of space travel, in hopes of traversing between stars
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ESA’s exploration of the Sun: What can ‘Solar Orbiter’ teach us?
At 5:03 CET on Monday 10th February, a NASA Atlas V4 11 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying with it ESA’s aptly named latest mission: Solar Orbiter. Within an hour, the spacecraft detached from the rocket, and began flying solo, carefully guided by a team on the ground in Germany. Since then, the…
