October 11th, 2023
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Often linked (perhaps wrongly so) to alien-occupied flying saucers that have stopovers on Earth from the outer reaches of deep space is an equally puzzling enigma: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, or UAP. Specialized sensors are now being dispatched into the field. This gear is built to sight UAP and decipher what’s behind frequent sightings in […]
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The early science look at NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) has begun. Initial studies of the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample collected show evidence of high-carbon content and water, which together could indicate the building blocks of life on Earth may be found in the rock. Still to come, […]
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at Jezero Crater has found features resembling reef-like structures. Mars Guy reports that, in the very place it might be reasonable to expect, Perseverance discovered circular rock structures resembling ones formed by microbial communities in some lakes on Earth. “This exciting possibility called for a closer look.” […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater has just started Sol 3973 duties. “Winter is almost half over in Gale, but this rover doesn’t hibernate,” reports Natalie Moore, mission operations specialist at Malin Space Science Systems, based in San Diego, California. The last time the rover stopped for more than a few sols was at […]
Visual Capitalist – an online publisher focused on topics and markets such as technology, energy and the global economy – has issued an informative look at Moon exploration. Preyash Shah of Visual Capitalist has provided an interesting overview of attempted and successful Moon landings: Since before Ancient Greece and the first Chinese Dynasties, people have […]
Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space travel company will carry out “Galactic 04” on October 6th, the company’s fifth spaceflight this year and ninth spaceflight to date. Runway departure time scheduled for 9:00am Mountain Daylight Time. Onboard, the three private astronauts are: Astronaut 017 – Ron Rosano from the United States. Astronaut 018 […]
Starship and Beyond! A conversation with SpaceX Elon Musk. Broadcast from the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2023 in Baku. IAC 23 Baku – Day 4 Go to (start 3:12:00) at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg3Z0wj9xDI&t=13689s
China is readying a major project that not only augments their research agenda for astronomy but bolsters use of the country’s space station complex. There are bragging rights associated with China’s star-studded venture. The spacecraft is called Xuntian, known as the Chinese Survey Space Telescope, but also the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). […]
That failed Russian Luna-25 robotic lunar lander was likely taken out by out-of-whack accelerometer hardware, part of the BIUS-L component that provides angular velocity measurements. Russia’s rekindling of its lunar program following the former Soviet Union’s pioneering Moon exploration initiatives that ended in 1976 will move forward, according to Roscosmos chief, Yuri Borisov. In a […]
Consider it sound advice. The use of tiny microphones on NASA’s Mars Perseverance has proven big time beneficial to both engineers and scientists. They can identify wind gusts even hear the staccato popping sounds made by instrument-generated laser pulses. Similarly, the swirling blades of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter have been picked up, as […]
