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Giant space chamber installed in Oxfordshire
UK satellite manufacturers will soon have the use of one of the biggest test vessels in Europe.
Europe pushes ahead with ‘dune buggy’ Mars rover
Airbus-UK wins a contract to advance the design of a robot for the Red Planet with four big wheels.
UK-US sign agreement on space launch technology
Britain and America ease the path that will allow US companies to launch rockets from the UK.
How Elon Musk aims to revolutionise battery technology
Could the least exciting bit of Elon Musk’s empire end up being the most transformative?
A Bee C: Scientists translate honeybee queen duets
Queens “quack” when ready to hatch – but if two are free at the same time, they fight to the death.
Garden villages ‘locking-in car dependency’
A group promoting alternatives to the car said one garden village could be seven miles from a shop.
Green glow detected on the Red Planet
A joint European-Russian satellite observes a light in Mars’ atmosphere that’s generated by oxygen.
Our Planet Matters
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New global extinction target proposed
Weird weather: Can computers solve UK puzzle?
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Why CO2 matters for climate change
Historic SpaceX Launch
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Evolution of the spacesuit
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As it happened: The lift-off from Florida
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Plastic bags ban ‘one step towards island being greener’
BBC Radio Jersey
A new ban on single-use plastic bags in Jersey is just one small step towards the island becoming greener, and the States needs to bring in a complete waste strategy soon, a local environmentalist has said.
Sheena Brockie, from Plastic Free Jersey, said she was glad the States voted to prevent shops giving out thin bags.
But she said far more needed to be done on various issues to make the island more environmentally-friendly and islanders need to work together to make changes “through laws, incentives or education” .
She said: “It’s a case of looking at the whole waste stream because plastic bags are literally the tip of the iceberg.”
Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
Britain and America ease the path that will allow US companies to launch rockets from the UK.
The film will tell the story of the birds that migrate each year from Africa to southern Scotland.
Both plastic and paper bags will be banned from next year, and a minimum price set for “bags of life”.
This year’s “display” of flowering cottongrass in the Cairngorms has been described as particularly striking.
Justin Rowlatt
Chief environment correspondent
Could the least exciting bit of Elon Musk’s empire end up being the most transformative?
The 103-turbine Viking project in Shetland will cost £580m and create hundreds of jobs.
Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent
UK satellite manufacturers will soon have the use of one of the biggest test vessels in Europe.
The largest vessel in the UK to test spacecraft has just been installed in Oxfordshire.
The largest vessel in the UK to test spacecraft is delivered to the Harwell science campus.
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