May 3rd, 2023
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If humans are to ever plant boot prints on Mars, where they need to go first is where the ice is. One problem: Astronaut crews don’t have the luxury to ring down to the hotel front desk for that hospitality. Work is on-going to tease out where and at what depth extractable ice exists on […]
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What’s the latest about NASA’s Moon mission mouthful, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment? Thankfully, it’s called CAPSTONE for short – and is operating in a Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). Find out the latest with my new Multiverse SpaceRef story – “CAPSTONE Moon Mission – Challenges, Lessons Learned” – at: […]
Explore Mars, Inc. has announced the release of the Report of the Ninth Community Workshop for Achievability and Sustainability of Human Exploration of Mars (AM IX), held on June 14-16, 2022 at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. AM IX assembled a diverse, select group of professionals from different fields to identify activities […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3816 duties. Curiosity has arrived at a new location with some bright toned, and more rounded rocks in its vicinity, reports Elena Amador-French, Science Operations Coordinator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Unfortunately, we could look but not touch as our wheels were positioned such […]
A new processing system for the Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is dubbed “COSMIC” – the Commensal Open-Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster. COSMIC is spearheaded by the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Breakthrough Listen Initiative. Now a massive radio array is joining the SETI quest and use of COSMIC […]
The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has published the first international requirements for the design and construction of offshore spaceports, announcing those publicized requisites during an Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. ABS provides classification and technical advisory services to the marine and offshore industries. “The offshore space industry is growing rapidly, and ABS […]
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites by Brian Harvey with Gurbir Singh, Edited by Paul Meuser, Cartography by Katrin Soschinski; DOM Publishers; (2022); 272 pages; Hardcover: € 98.00 incl. MwSt., excl. shipping costs. This is a seminal work, a unique and fascinating overview of all major launch sites on the globe. All 25 major […]
China’s space station will receive the uncrewed Tianzhou-6 cargo craft in the first half of May. Prior to the supply ship’s arrival, the currently docked Tianzhou-5 will depart from the station, opening up the docking hatch to receive the new cargo ship. Tianzhou-5 is scheduled to be deorbited, taking a destructive plunge into Earth’s atmosphere. […]
Russia, China, and the United States should step up cooperation in the space sector for the sake of common progress, and one of those steps is de-cluttering the global space commons. Earlier this week, according to a report in Russia’s TASS news agency, Wang Guoyu, the founder of Beijing Shiyu Outer Space Consulting, broached the […]
China space officials have outlined step-by-step plans for planting Chinese footprints onto the surface of the Moon before 2030. The country’s lunar exploration initiatives are being detailed during Space Day presentations this week, held in Hefei, the capital of east China’s Anhui Province. Lunar relay constellation China plans to launch Queqiao-2, or Magpie Bridge-2, […]
