The first scientist to confirm the presence of debris from a spacecraft on a Snowy Mountains farm has said the discovery will likely lead to more fragments being found in Australia.
Australian start-up Hypersonix Launch Systems is gearing up to bring a zero-emission spaceplane into commercial use, operating much the same as a traditional airline - without the passengers
The mission was previously scheduled for Monday and then Tuesday, but “consistent winds” forced its postponement with no new date publicly announced.
RMIT University physics lecturer Gail Iles examines why we’ll soon have huge demand for weightless “parabolic flights”.
It’s the first of three lift-offs planned from the Arnhem Space Centre, with the next happening on 4 and 12 July, and marked NASA’s first launch from a commercial port outside the US.
The experiment took advantage of the business jet's 40,000ft flying height to capture images of the 73p/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 comet that were free of atmospheric pollution.
