The heavens from London can be more interesting soon. The California-based electricity company announced a virgin Atlantic on Saturday that will lead to an exclusive partnership in the United Kingdom to launch vehicles. The partnership will see Joby’s services integrated into the application and website of the Virgin and unite passengers at Heathrow and Manchester … Read more
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, will finally launch its first orbital-class rocket on Sunday, January 12, from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The three-hour launch window for the mission, called NG-1, opens at 1 a.m. EST (6 a.m. GMT). Coverage will begin approximately one … Read more
Among the many reasons why we ought to cut climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and sharply as possible, the weakening of a system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, ranks high indeed. Several key scientific papers over the last couple of years have put this long-percolating climate concern back … Read more