De-orbiting systems could be as simple as deployable solar sails like the experimental Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment-7 (CanX-7.) It was launched in 2016 and achieved a decay rate of 20/km per ...

De-orbiting systems could be as simple as deployable solar sails like the experimental Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment-7 (CanX-7.) It was launched in 2016 and achieved a decay rate of 20/km per ...

A missile is launched during an air defence drill in an undisclosed location in Iran. Intelligence officials say chemicals are being shipped to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the elite arm ...

Lightweight space structures like CubeSats, deployable solar panels, antenna arrays, and space telescopes rely on compact, efficient designs to minimize launch costs and maximize functionality. New ...

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...

The harbour was open to all vessels at the time, they said, "and SailGP organisers had been notified of all ferry sailing channels within the harbour". The ferry slowed down for several SailGP ...

A sailor from Cornwall has suffered a major blow in the Vendee Globe round-the-world race when the mainsail on his boat "exploded". Sam Goodchild, 35, from Falmouth, was in fifth place in his ...

The sinews of a thousand ropes sing as sails wake from their slumber. Billowing into a canvas canopy, they pierce the horizon with a silhouette from another age. On the bridge, Captain Bruno ...

In Auckland’s debut on the SailGP calendar, the home-town Black Foils had to watch the final from the sidelines. On one of the more chaotic days of racing the SailGP fleet has seen, the Black ...

After being starved of America's Cup and SailGP action last year, Auckland has a chance for a small measure of compensation when it finally hosts the professional sailing circuit for the first time ...

TES-22 carries three main payloads: the Exo-Brake, a deployable drag sail designed to help deorbit the satellite; a radiation detector to measure solar and cosmic radiation levels; and an experiment ...