July 26th, 2023
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Russia is set to reactivate the country’s robotic investigation of the Moon, picking up from its former Soviet Union days of heady and milestone-making lunar exploration. Luna-25 is reportedly targeted for an August 11 sendoff to the Moon, departing from the Vostochny cosmodrome atop a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage. “This launch […]
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Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander continues to make progress as it heads for its August liftoff from the Vostochny launch site. According to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, Luna-25 is now fueled with propellant and loaded with compressed gases. Meanwhile, employees of the IKI RAS, the space research institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have […]
NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space. Six of the selected companies are small businesses. The awarded companies, their projects, and the approximate value of NASA’s contribution are: Astrobotic Technology of Pittsburgh, $34.6 million – LunaGrid-Lite: Demonstration of Tethered, Scalable […]
India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander/rover mission continues to chalk up success in raising its orbit, leading to the spacecraft’s upcoming TransLunar Injection (TLI) maneuver. Chandrayaan-3’s TLI is reportedly scheduled for early August 1, Indian Standard Time. If successful, the Moon explorer will then go into lunar orbit, perform a series of maneuvers, followed by a […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3898 duties. Curiosity’s road trip involves wheeling through the Jau crater cluster. “Like any road trip, we’re taking frequent stops to take in the sights, and at this spot Curiosity gets to stretch its arm with a touch and go,” reports Alex Innanen, an […]
Roscosmos and JSC NPO Lavochkina both report progress in readying the Soyuz booster complex at the Vostochny Space Center for launch of Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander. Late last week, specialists were on task preparing and checking all systems and units before receiving the space rocket. Launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Luna-25 […]
If you follow the complex and perplexing world of Unidentified Flying Objects, now tied to the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, we may be inching toward “full disclosure.” What that means is uncorking the bottle filled to the brim with an elixir of truth, say disclosure activists, that Earth has been on the receiving end of […]
Looking at a range of high-adrenaline activities, experts from ARKA conducted research to find recent thrilling high-risk activities that have captivated the interest of billionaires worldwide. According to ARKA, a creator of custom boxes, flying around the Moon would be the most expensive and risky activity undertaken by billionaires. Space treks into Earth orbit is […]
For the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, it is up and at ‘em for flight 53. The aerial device made its last flight back on April 27. JPL notes that the craft has an expected flight date of July 22. The stats for this high-flying run are: Horizontal flight distance: 666.34 feet (203.1 meters) […]
It is tagged as “planetary geoarchaeology” – the study of how cultural and natural processes on Earth’s Moon, on Mars, and across the solar system may be altering, preserving or destroying the material record of space exploration. In a recent paper appearing in the journal Geoarchaeology, tools and methods are being advocated to study the […]
