June 10th, 2023
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3855 duties. “Curiosity has been trying to work her way to the top of a canyon towards an interesting cluster of craters. Unfortunately the current terrain is extremely challenging, and the drives have been stopping short of their intended distance,” reports Lauren Edgar, […]
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If you are trying to discern clarity about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, it will take time, a hale and hearty dose of nit-picking scientific scrutiny, topped off by better data gathering and diagnostic tools. And while you’re at it, toss in need for a tightly-defined lexicon that classifies the meaning of “anomalous.” Blue-ribbon counsel […]
An Artemis III Moon landing site study group is trying to select where U.S. astronauts will “re-boot” our celestial next door neighbor. If NASA planning remains on the rails politically, technically and dollar-wise, the United States is slated to plant new footprints on the Moon toward the end of 2025. Safe and science-worthy Following Artemis […]
A number of nations are heading for the Moon – first with robotic craft, but then to establish “permanent facilities.” Count in China, Russia, as well as the U.S. among those countries hungry to not only set up a research base, but also “live off the land” by tapping into a suspected bounty of resources […]
China’s Shenzhou-15 crew is homeward bound, headed for a return to Earth later today. Trained teams are at the Dongfeng Landing Site in north China, ready to handle the fiery reentry, atmospheric plunge and parachute recovery of the taikonaut trio: Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu. This threesome entered China’s Tiangong space station on […]
A tiny CubeSat is being sent into Earth orbit described as the world’s first and only “hacking sandbox in space.” Called Moonlighter, the mid-size 3U nanosatellite has been designed and built by The Aerospace Corporation. It is slated to offer hackers the ability to perform tests that could identify methods for preventing the hacking of […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3847 duties. “What do you do when you are driving through challenging terrain? Well, hit a new record!” That’s the word from Susanne Schwenzer, a planetary geologist at The Open University; Milton Keynes, U.K. The robot has passed the 19 mile (30 kilometers) […]
China’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts are slated to return to Earth on June 4, following the transfer of space station control to the newly arrived Shenzhou-16 crew and the country’s second in-orbit crew rotation. The trio of taikonauts – Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu – are slated to touchdown at a Dongfeng landing site in […]
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has written a new poem that will fly into space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper mission on a years-long journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The poem, first shared publicly during a special reading at the Library of Congress, will be engraved on the spacecraft set to launch in […]
Russia’s renewed robotic Moon effort — Luna-25 – has slipped to August 2023. According to Russia’s Roscosmos and NPO Lavochkin, developer of the lunar lander, the craft is undergoing a final cycle of ground tests. Part of that testing is statistical modeling of the key stage of the mission — a soft landing on […]
