August 27th, 2026
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That botched re-boost/rescue of NASA’s Swift observatory now means an uncontrolled downing of the multi-wavelength scanning spacecraft that was fine-tuned to digging deep into gamma-ray burst science. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was hurled into orbit back in November of 2004. Over the years, it carried out its duties of studying gamma-ray bursts, the most […]
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A bullish look at a future lunar economy predicts that the infrastructure, markets and strategic forces for returning to the Moon could generate up to $566 Billion in economic value through 2050. The report has been assembled by Deloitte – an organization that tracks emerging technologies and markets, “ones that feel speculative today but may […]
China’s Chang’e-7 lunar probe sitting atop its Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket has been rolled back to the assembly and test building at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan. Chang’e-7 was ready to head for the Moon’s south pole on August 24 (Beijing Time) in a search for evidence of water ice. “China’s Chang’e-7 […]
A Heart for Space: An Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible by Eiman Jahangir; Forefront Books; August 2026; 224 pages (Hardcover); $26.00. In August of 2024, the author of this insightful and inspiring book flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket. “People often assume that achieving a dream means following a straight line,” explains […]
