80% Londoners think crime will rocket when lockdown measures eased

EXCLUSIVE: Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased as Tories condemn Sadiq Khan over plans to cut capital’s policing budget by £110m City Hall opinion poll found 80% of Londoners fear crime will rise after lockdown  And 61% expect crime to soar back to 2019’s record levels or … Read more

Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased

Four out of five Londoners believe crime will rocket when lockdown measures are eased as Tories condemn Sadiq Khan over plans to cut capital’s policing budget by £110m City Hall opinion poll found 80% of Londoners fear crime will rise after lockdown  And 61% expect crime to soar back to 2019’s record levels or above  … Read more

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record SEVENTH time

SpaceX launches a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster for a record SEVENTH time ahead of first high-altitude test of its Starship prototype next week Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday It was the seventh time that particular first stage booster had been used in flight The booster has … Read more

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches satellite which will measure sea level rise over the next 30 years

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA satellite into orbit to measure sea levels for the next 30 years and then returns to California in a stunning landing SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite blasted off from California on Saturday   It took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:17am and arced southward … Read more

Space: European Vega rocket that crashed to the ground may have failed due to a ‘wiring error’

European Vega rocket that crashed to the ground just minutes after launch destroying two satellites worth £280 MILLION may have failed due to one person’s ‘wiring error’ The VV17 mission blasted-off from French Guiana at at 01:52 GMT on Nov. 17 It was carrying payloads designed to study the Earth and its upper atmosphere Aerospace firm Arianespace said an … Read more

Rocket booster from 1966 returns to Earth’s orbit and will circle our planet ‘for a few weeks’ 

A rocket booster flung into the abyss of space during a 1966 mission to the Moon has been caught by Earth’s gravity and will orbit our planet ‘for a few weeks’. NASA launched the Surveyor 2 mission to the Moon in 1966 but an issue mid-flight resulted in the spacecraft losing control and NASA eventually … Read more

Pfizer chiefs pocket £5m as shares rocket on vaccine announcement

Pfizer chiefs pocket £5m as shares rocket on successful Covid vaccine trial announcement By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 November 2020 Bosses at Pfizer cashed in shares worth more than £5million on the day the firm revealed it had developed the first working … Read more

Halifax: House prices rocket 7.5% in a year to add £18,000 to average home

House prices rocket 7.5% in a year to add £18,000 to the cost of the average home, says Halifax, but is the lockdown mini-boom already slowing? Average house price reaches a new record high of £250,457, on Halifax index Property inflation at 7.5% is the highest it has been since mid-2016 October saw a monthly … Read more

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lights up Florida’s night sky while launching GPS satellite into orbit

Liftoff! SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lights up Florida’s night sky as it launches to orbit carrying an upgraded GPS satellite for the US Space Force SpaceX Falcon 9 marked its 20th launch this year with a mission Thurs evening The rocket took off at 6:24pm ET, carrying a US Space Force GPS into orbit This … Read more

Dead Russian satellite and discarded Chinese rocket avoid ‘very high risk’ collision

There is no indication of an out-of-commission Russian satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket colliding in orbit. LeoLabs, a firm that tracks space debris, identified the two craft this week, which had just a 10 percent chance of smashing into each other. Russian Kosmos-2004 was seen moving towards the southern poles and the Chinese Change … Read more