April 17th, 2023
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale crater is now performing Sol 3802 duties. Here are some newly relayed imagery from the robot of its current surroundings:
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Coming up is an April 19 Senate hearing on the mission, activities, oversight, and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office. Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. Hearing starts at 10:30 AM, Wednesday, April 19th. WITNESSE(S): Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. To view the hearing, go to: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/to-receive-testimony-on-the-mission-activities-oversight-and-budget-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office?fbclid=IwAR1LAM4_efY0Pu9dPFcl4HXYdduXfOpDz0hcWWRyQ7-b_lSWJVEUDcgnXwk CNN […]
SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The 150-minute test window will open at 8:00 a.m. Central Time. From SpaceX: “Teams are completing final checkouts and reviews ahead of Starship’s first flight test attempt; weather […]
The Shenzhou-15 taikonauts onboard the orbiting Chinese Tiangong space station have completed their fourth spacewalk, the China Manned Space Agency said on Sunday. From inside the country’s space station, Deng Qingming assisted spacewalkers Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu to perform a series of tasks on Saturday, before the two returned to the station’s Wentian lab […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars helicopter at Jezero Crater performed its 50th flight on April 13. Newly-issued color imagery shows the Red Planet’s landscape. The craft used its high-resolution color camera mounted in its fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon. Also released are black and white images. The rotorcraft used its navigation camera […]
On April 14, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued SpaceX a Vehicle Operator License to launch the Starship / Super Heavy vehicle from Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX is targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas. The […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has performed a Molly Shannon maneuver – “I’m 50!” The craft made its 50th flight on April 13, soaring to its highest altitude to date. Stats: Horizontal distance covered, roughly 1,056 feet (322 meters); Maximum altitude roughly 59 feet (18 meters) – the highest altitude reached to date; Hit a ground […]
Work is now underway to shape a new NASA Mars helicopter design. There are a lot of add-ons beyond the Ingenuity aerial vehicle that has been busily buzzing the distant and distinct planet. Thanks to Ingenuity’s nearly 50 hops across the Jezero Crater landscape, much has been learned to soup-up a future rotorcraft for the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale crater is now performing Sol 3798 tasks. The terrain the rover drivers are now navigating is challenging – “slippery sand surrounding big, wheel-unfriendly rocks,” reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. “These contrasting regimes contributed to us not-quite-arriving at our planned workspace with all […]
The “Pancosmorio theory” describes the complexity of maintaining gravity and oxygen, obtaining water, developing agriculture and handling waste far from Earth. Pancosmorio theory is a word coined to mean “all world limit” – and is detailed in “Pancosmorio (World Limit) Theory of the Sustainability of Human Migration and Settlement in Space,” published in March in […]
