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‘Tis the season to ponder celestial bodies! With Christmas on its way, many of us are busy in the haze of gift-buying, ice-dodging, and trying to avoid the unceasing bombardment of our ear canals by Mariah Carey. However, Christmas is about more than presents and parties. It’s a time to remember the story of the nativity — and as stargazers, there’s one part of the story that’s particularly interesting to us at Sent Into Space: the three wise men, bearing gifts for the newbor

Today marks the passing of Joseph Kittinger, a pioneer in the field of high-altitude balloon flights. Born in 1928 in Tampa, Florida, Kittinger joined the United States Air Force in 1950 and served as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. Kittinger and Project Manhigh After the war, he became a test pilot and was chosen to be part of Project Manhigh, a program that investigated the effects of high altitude flights on humans in preparation for future space exploration. He was

Touted as the ‘material of the future’, carbon fibre is a highly popular invention leading the way in the fields of aerospace, civil engineering, motocross, and the military. If you need a strong and lightweight material, carbon fibre is the crème de la crème, and is sure to pave the way for technological advancements in the future. When was carbon fibre discovered? Carbon fibre was discovered in 1860 by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan and was originally used in an incandescent light

Over 50 years since man's last visit, the Artemis project marks the start of our return to the Moon — and Artemis 1 is our first small step.

Learn how Sent Into Space launched Rick's spaceship and launched it into space to premiere the first episode of Rick and Morty Season 5

A nanosatellite is any satellite that weighs between 1 and 10 kilograms. Initially, nanosatellites were only ever used in low Earth orbit for communications and remote sensing (measuring the reflected and emitted radiation of an object in order to study its characteristics), however, recent advancements have led to their application in interplanetary missions. rOne such project that utilised nanosatellite technology was NASA’S Mars Cube One (MarCO) which tracked the robotic l

Perhaps there's no better accompaniment to the green rolling hills of Yorkshire than a pair of decent running shoes, or for that matter, pretty much all walkable surfaces. Last month, we launched a pair of Brooks running shoes from our site in Sheffield in association with The Running Channel​. The Running Channel is your go-to site for all things running - advice videos, running-related gadgets and gizmos, training plans, as well as high-quality clothing made from breathabl

Since the first launch of a man-made spacecraft in 1957 with the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, humans have forged a relationship with space that is ever evolving, and certainly not without its complications. It is hard for us to explore space solely for peaceful and educational purposes when space itself is becoming crowded as a result of human activity, not to mention proliferated by military equipment that could very well increase conflict on home turf. There now exist several

What did the universe look like 13 billion years ago? A lot has happened in the field of astrophysics since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched in December 2021. Within a mere thirty days, the telescope travelled 1.5 million miles to its permanent home at the gravitationally stable location known as L2 Lagrange Point. From there, the telescope has since gathered the most advanced imaging of the distant universe we have ever seen. Joe Biden was in fact the first

Forget fifteen minutes of fame, for Logan Paul it only took six seconds. The former Vine star, now a YouTuber, boxer, and podcaster extraordinaire, is no stranger to a publicity stunt. When he launched his sports energy drink, ‘PRIME’, earlier in the year, the Youtuber explored quite a range of promotional strategies - filming a monkey appearing to steal the drink, pretending to be a castaway in need of quenching their thirst (replete with Momoa-esque facial hair), even catap

It’s only two weeks into July 2022 and already significant progress has been made in the world of aerospace. The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the universe’s deepest field of galaxies yet, NASA progressed further with its Mars Ascent Vehicle and the craft’s assignment to retrieve blast rock and atmospheric samples from the red planet; and a Skywatcher, Giuseppe Donatiello, found an ultra-dwarf galaxy, ‘Pegasus V’, considered a fossil of the first galaxies to have ex

Not his actual head... he is still very much alive. Up until now, the team at Sent into Space have been set with the task of keeping schtum about a Taskmaster-themed launch. With the Champion of Champions episode of the BAFTA award-winning show, Taskmaster, airing last week on Channel 4, we thought we’d share the details of the host’s vicarious trip to the stars. But first, a little info about the show. What is Taskmaster? If you have been living under a rock or are a rare br

The way space affects the range of human senses is pretty widely known - our eyes bear witness to a sea of endless black, peppered with specks of glittering stars, our ears become heavy with a silence that never ceases, our limbs, made buoyant with weightlessness that is hard to orientate; but what does the human nose identify in space? With the clouds of Earth flitting below as a distant memory, and the galaxies beyond spinning like great, whirlpools above, the heady aroma o

We collaborated with Dutch rapper and producer, Dopebwoy, sending a hard drive containing his new album tracks into space to be mastered.

After months of hard work, our engineering team have successfully designed and launched a craft that conducted the first ever bet in space!

Every year, during the week of April’s new moon, people across the world come together to celebrate International Dark Sky Week - a time to acknowledge how light pollution is damaging our planet and think about steps to mitigate this. If you haven’t heard of it before, put it in your calendar to keep in mind for next year’s event! Sunrise over a city in the UK What are the goals of International Dark Sky Week? To reduce light pollution and raise awareness about its effects En

The contemporary king of the crooners, Michael Bublé, premiers his new album’s title track, Higher , in a rather unusual domain… space. In a literal realisation of the new LP’s title, Bublé teamed up with Sent Into Space to promote his new music video in truly out-of-this-world fashion. How did ‘Higher’ play among the stars? In order to send the album into space, our engineers designed and built a bespoke, Bublé-branded spacecraft from carbon fibre and cutting-edge 3D printed

They say that dogs are man’s best friend, and what could be a greater present than a trip to the stars? Following in Sherpa’s footsteps (the famous canine YouTuber that is), we helped her fluffy counterpart—the limited edition Space Sherpa Plush —find their way into the cosmos. On a cool morning in Spring, Derbyshire, we launched the fluffy toy up into the stars. Here is the story of Sherpa’s journey. Jamie and Sherpa by the beach With a decade already behind the duo’s online

We helped Carter Sharer to launch a Team RAR plushie into space as an important milestone towards his

On December the 25th 2021, NASA launched the world’s largest observatory to date: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Despite the tennis court-sized craft's 344 single points of failure (SPOFs), a fault at any one of which would cause total failure, the deployment of the telescope was successful. It has now reached its home at L2 — a gravitationally stable spot known as a Lagrange point, over 1 million miles away from Earth. Inspired by an iconic image of distant galaxies