This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.
Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.
The maiden launch of the European Space Agency’s next generation Ariane 6 rocket system now definitely won’t happen until 2024 at the earliest, the agency’s Director General Josef Aschbacher said Tuesday.
Aschbacher said that the ESA, French space agency CNES and rocket developers Arianespace and Ariane Group “confirm that the inaugural launch is now targeted for 2024.”
As earlier reported by POLITICO, the ESA had wanted to get the heavy launcher system ready for use this year, with full commercial
The Moldovan government will kick out 45 Russian diplomats over the next month.
Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu announced Wednesday that he will cut the number of Russian envoys in the Moldovan capital of Chișinău so that there are “fewer individuals acting to destabilize the situation in our country,” reported local news outlets.
“This decision comes as a result of numerous unfriendly actions toward the Republic of Moldova, unrelated to diplomatic duties, as well as attempts to destabilize the internal situation
When his phone rang, Berrien Moore III, the dean of the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, was fumbling with his bow tie, preparing for a formal ceremony honoring a colleague. He glanced down at the number and recognized it as NASA headquarters. This was a bad sign, he thought. In Moore’s experience, bureaucrats never called after hours with good news.
For roughly six years, Moore and his colleagues had been working on a space-based
The UK government yesterday announced a raft of new measures designed to drive sustainability in space and help clear up the millions of shards of debris clogging up near-Earth orbit.
The measures include an ‘Active Debris Removal’ programme, which involves launching a new spacecraft to physically collect and destroy pieces of space junk floating around the Earth.
The project, which will receive £5 million in funding from the UK government, is set to launch in 2026.
It is not a
Cornwall is set to join the space race when it launches two shoebox-sized satellites for the UK government this summer.
The mini cube-shaped satellites (‘cubesats’) will be blasted into space on a rocket called LauncherOne, which itself will be unleashed from a jumbo jet from Spaceport Cornwall, part of Newquay Airport.
Once deployed, they will deliver high-tech imaging sensors, allowing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to monitor Earth and its oceans.
MoD’s so-called ‘Prometheus-2’ mission will strengthen ‘defence capabilities’ and
Virgin Orbit has successfully launched seven new satellites into space, on a rocket that was unleashed from an adapted Boeing 747 flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Richard Branson’s space firm put the small satellites into a 310 mile orbit, launching from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 16:39 ET (21:39 GMT) on Thursday.
The jet, known as Cosmic Girl, flew up 35,000ft over the Pacific Ocean for an hour, before RAF pilot Matthew ‘Stanny’ Stannard unleashed the
