March 25th, 2023
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An unpiloted Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is set to return to Earth next week, a craft that was compromised due to a coolant leak late last year. Departing the International Space Station (ISS), the spacecraft will depart the Rassvet module at 5:57 a.m. EDT, heading for an automated, parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan at 7:45 a.m. […]
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The Blue Origin New Shepard-23 uncrewed launch mishap back in September of last year was caused by a thermo-structural failure of the suborbital rocket’s engine nozzle. The resulting thrust misalignment triggered the New Shepard (NS) Crew Capsule escape system, which functioned as designed throughout the flight. In a statement released today, the private group said […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3777 duties. Monday’s planned drive positioned Curiosity with a new workspace to investigate, reports Scott VanBommel, a planetary scientist at Washington University. “We have left the Marker Band,” VanBommel adds. “As a physicist and spectroscopist by training, I find myself looking more at the […]
Russia’s reactivation of Moon exploration is on the move – the country’s Luna-25 robotic lander is to be transported to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in early June. According to NPO Lavochkin, the production leader of the spacecraft, delivery of the Luna-25 is scheduled for the first ten days of June 2023. Previously, Russia’s Roscomos announced […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3775 duties. It was a jam packed weekend for the robot on Mars reports Sharon Wilson, a planetary geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. “The rover is heading south across the Marker Band and is currently sitting in […]
Rovers capable of imprinting the Moon and Mars landscape with customized words and pictures is a new line of business being offered by RKF Engineering of Bethesda, Maryland. The idea has garnered a U.S. patent earlier this year, according to the group, cited as RKF Engineering patent US 18/100,141. For example, once the made to […]
The highly productive NASA New Horizons mission is on “extended leave” after departing Earth in January 2006 – and the agency is now considering a new assignment for the nuclear-powered craft after over 6,267 days in space. New Horizons zoomed past Pluto and its moons in July 2015, before conducting the first reconnaissance of a […]
That compromised Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is returning to Earth – in un-crewed manner — at the end of the month. The craft experienced a coolant leak attached to the International Space Station last year, putting to question safe transport of crew members back to terra firma. Meanwhile, cosmonauts onboard the ISS have been readying […]
Researchers have reanalyzed nearly 40-year-old data accumulated by NASA’s Voyager 2 and now speculate that two moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy surfaces. The moons – Ariel and Miranda — may be releasing energetic particles into space, according to a new study led by specialists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3772 duties. The Red Planet robot is leaving Tapo Caparo and is beginning something new, reports Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. “But… actually, we are not going very far,” O’Connell-Cooper adds. “Whilst sitting at […]
