April 2nd, 2023
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How to cut to the chase regarding reported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) – now linked, for better or worse, to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)? That’s at the underbelly of a recent paper authored by Harvard University’s Avi Loeb, conducted in partnership with Loeb’s Galileo Project and the newly established Department of Defense, All-domain Anomaly Resolution […]
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There are microgravity-induced changes to the human eye tagged as Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome, or SANS for visual brevity. This condition is considered a risk to human health in long-duration spaceflight. Later this year, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will hurl the Polaris Dawn mission of four crew members skyward […]
China’s Shenzhou-15 crew carried out their third spacewalk late last week. The Thursday set of spacewalks had astronauts Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu work outside the Tiangong space facility, with Deng Qingming supporting his crew mates from inside the space station. The spacewalking twosome returned safely to the Wentian lab module. Meanwhile, the crew […]
If NASA’s plan stays on the rails politically and dollar-wise, the United States is slated to “re-boot” the surface of the Moon no earlier than 2025. That Artemis III mission is intended to be the first of many human missions to the Artemis Polar Exploration Zone – the region poleward of 84° South latitude. Selecting […]
Given the advancing StarLink and OneWeb satellite constellations, as well as Amazon’s projected Project Kuiper internet network — and other initiatives, particularly from China — there is escalating worry by astronomers of being “blinded by the light” from a projected 400,000 recent and planned low Earth orbit satellites. There’s a bounce back theme from some […]
NASA is set next week to unveil the Artemis II crew that will sojourn around the Moon, now eyed for November 2024. The four-person team would make the trek secure in their Orion spacecraft – the first piloted spacecraft to travel to the Moon, or beyond low Earth orbit, since Apollo 17 in December […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater has just begun Sol 3784 duties. For the robot, it has been a picture perfect Day…or to be more exact, a day perfect for taking pictures, reports Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, a planetary geologist at University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada “Due to some delayed downlink of […]
A Lunar Policy Handbook outlines the current policy issues, including registration, liability, and transparency. A second part targets policy questions related to operational considerations. It follows an approach that explores the potential policy implications of specific lunar activities, such as orbital, landed, and infrastructure activities. The Lunar Policy Handbook is a reference guidebook for government […]
Think of it as a folk dance card that had not been punched. The Russian-provided landing system for Europe’s delayed ExoMars 2022 mission to the Red Planet is re-routed back to Russia. That hardware, the platform and its scientific instruments are being transported back to Russia through a “mutual return plan” between […]
A new website is being created to allow the public to report possible Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon skirting through the skies. This new site is being established at the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, permitting citizens to specify the time and location of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) sighting, upload videos, and describe the object. […]
