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Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009

Perhaps instrument-halting failure is due to compute and interconnect hardware, not memory, after all

24 Jun 01:10 | 5

Intrepid squid mission may help in kraken riddle of why zero-g makes astronauts sick

Boffins looking for changes to cephalopods' symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria on ISS

23 Jun 16:32 | 16

Spacey McSpaceface: Artemis takes shape ahead of '2021' launch – but first you need to name the crash-test dummy

Next up, the rocket stage to send mannequin to the Moon

23 Jun 15:45 | 13

USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4

Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays

22 Jun 17:14 | 42

Hubble Space Telescope sails serenely on in safe mode after efforts to switch to backup memory modules fail

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

21 Jun 11:22 | 78

UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire

Biz will develop Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the site

18 Jun 15:01 | 45

Your spacesuit ran into a problem and needs to restart

ISS solar array installation overran after a good old 'off and on again'

17 Jun 18:01 | 19

Toyota reveals its work on an honest-to-goodness cloak of invisibility

Though it's mostly just looking to make its cars safer, rather than hide them

17 Jun 12:15 | 66

Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane

Japan Supersonic Research wants to be in the air by 2030

17 Jun 06:32 | 79

Hubble Space Telescope to switch to backup memory module after instrument computer halts

Imagine the service ticket

16 Jun 21:58 | 44

Spacewalk veterans take a trip outside the ISS to pump up the power with new solar arrays

Lego ISS fans, look away now

16 Jun 13:07 | 13

China launching first crew to its own space station on Thursday

Plans four crewed missions to assemble “heavenly palace”

16 Jun 06:58 | 12

Michigan Micro Mote works well escargot: Tiny computer makes it into the field strapped to backs of predatory snails

Then solves a longstanding extinction puzzle

15 Jun 21:17 | 11

Fancy the ultimate no-Air-outside-bnb? NASA willing to rent out ISS for two weeks

Private companies to sort out the transportation, US agency's fees are non-trivial

15 Jun 03:35 | 17

It's safe to leave your bunker: Blame that Chinese nuclear plant alarm on fuel rod faults

Meltdown over a non-meltdown

15 Jun 01:43 | 24

Artemis I core stage finally pointing in the right direction at Kennedy Space Center

Had trouble getting vertical at the weekend? NASA used a pair of cranes to hoist the SLS core stage

15 Jun 00:03 | 6

Honda links arms with JAXA to prepare humans for life in outer space with 'circulative renewable energy system'

Car maker to draw upon its investments in hydrogen fuel tech

14 Jun 17:30 | 8

$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight

Burning dollars faster than liquid oxygen and hydrogen

14 Jun 11:26 | 33

Orbex is creeping towards orbit from a UK launchpad, but first there are courts, birds, and billionaires to overcome

Sutherland Spaceport: A Prime location?

14 Jun 10:08 | 11

Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before

All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars

11 Jun 05:01 | 13

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US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile

No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission

USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4

Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays

Register Debate

Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable

Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades

Have you tried turning server cores off and on again? HPE wants to do it for you from GreenLake

For those times when you run software on a box bigger than your license

John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

British-American infosec renegade faced trial in America for tax evasion

Monitoring is simple enough – green means everything's fine. But getting to that point can be a whole other ball game

Don’t take no for an answer, but be prepared to give it.

There's no 'Skype' in Teams: Microsoft lets signing key for its Debian Skype repository slip gently into the night

Summer Solstice: A time for dancing, druids, and certificate errors

'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode

Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries

Intel sponsors report on tech's role in decarbonisation and the irony isn't lost on us

Making computer components is a dirty business

From I'm feeling lucky to I'm feeling Brave: Browser maker erects web search engine beta

Even just to remind the world there's life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo

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'Ring of fire' headed to northern UK – a partial solar eclipse, not the sensation you get after a potent vindaloo

Russia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty

10 Jun 07:26 | 19

Baby Space Shuttle biz chases dreams at Spaceport Cornwall

Sierra Nevada Corporation eyes a landing site in the UK

09 Jun 22:03 | 30

There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself

With his brother in tow, poor sod

07 Jun 19:16 | 50

NASA doubles down on Venus missions, asking what made the planet uninhabitable

VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's concept selection

03 Jun 13:40 | 17

Wyoming powers ahead with Bill Gates-backed sodium-cooled nuclear generation plant

We wanted to post a dad joke about sodium, but we thought: Na, people will groan...

03 Jun 12:13 | 137

South Korea's first fully indigenous rocket now on launch pad, ready for tests

Plans test launch this year, satellite-lifting in 2022 and moonshot not long after

02 Jun 11:31 | 12

Space extenders

Surviving eclipse season and resurrecting 25-year-old software with Windows for Workgroups 3.11: One year with Mars Express

ESA's veteran probe left for its mission 18 years ago today

02 Jun 08:30 | 44

Space junk damages International Space Station's robot arm

Space boffin tells Reg it's stupidly hard to clean up orbiting trash after Canadarm2 survives encounter with item too small to be tracked

01 Jun 06:44 | 75

NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it

Three years to go and space agency is way behind schedule

28 May 02:04 | 64

Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID

Former UK.gov spin doctor talks of mess in response to crisis

27 May 08:30 | 111

Japan to send ‘transforming robot’ to the Moon in 2022

It’s a pathfinder for Toyota’s planned self-driving lunar buggy, and tiny compared to Optimus Prime

27 May 04:28 | 27

Who gave dusty Soviet-era spacecraft that unwanted lick of paint? It was an idiot, with a spraycan, in Baikonur

'This is why we can't have nice things'

26 May 19:32 | 70

Google employee helped UK government switch from disastrous COVID-19 strategy, according to Dominic Cummings

Explosive Whitehall testimony also reveals former Faculty data scientist Ben Warner’s influence on decision making during national emergency

26 May 14:21 | 81

Seeking an escape from the UK? Regulations aimed at rocket and satellite launches from 2022 have arrived

Unclear if 'space' is on the green, amber or red list

26 May 10:02 | 15

Astroboffins think strangely porous boulders found on asteroid Ryugu may be the stuff of proto-planets

Pumice-like stuff spotted by Japanese Hayabusa2 probe would float on water

26 May 08:00 | 10

When and where to see the Super Blood Moon in a total lunar eclipse this week

Prime viewing in the Pacific Rim

25 May 01:31 | 18

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