March 13th, 2023
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The rim of Marvin crater, 2.9 miles (4.6-kilometers) in diameter arcs across the image from left to right. This just-released image comes via the Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter’s (KPLO) ShadowCam. ShadowCam is a NASA-funded instrument hosted onboard the KPLO, provided by Arizona State University. By collecting high-resolution images of the Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), […]
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NASA’s budget request this year includes seeking $180 million in fiscal year 2024 to safely de-orbit the massive International Space Station. Completion of ISS operations is slated for 2030, with the huge structure undergoing a controlled re-entry dumping into ocean waters. The new budget request includes $180 million in FY 2024, building on the $10 […]
Calling it the most expensive “abandonment” in the world, a new Russian Roscosmos Telegram posting has spotlighted the former Soviet Union’s Buran spaceship. “In total, five Buran flight ships were to be created in the Soviet Union, but only two were fully assembled. The third was supposed to go into space in 1994 and was […]
That new NASA budget has been assessed, spotlighting which companies and institutions receive the most funds from the space agency. For fiscal year 2024, the White House is proposing a $27.2 billion budget for NASA. The Budget requests $27.2 billion in discretionary budget authority for 2024, a $1.8 billion or 7-percent increase from the 2023 […]
A new research group is being created to advance our understanding of the emergence and early evolution of life, and its place in the cosmos. Called the Origins Federation, four leading institutions are engaged in establishing the group: — The Origins of Life Initiative (Harvard University) — Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (ETH […]
NASA has issued its plan, based on the White Budget request for NASA of $27.2 billion. Issued today: NASA 2022 Strategic Plan FY 2022 Agency Financial Report NASA Human Landing System Program Report FY 2023 Volume of Integrated Performance Required Reporting under the Good Accounting Obligation in Government Act of 2019 (April 2022) […]
Scientists have called for a legally binding treaty to ensure Earth’s orbit isn’t irreparably harmed by the future expansion of the global space industry. The experts also believe that unless action is taken immediately, large parts of our planet’s immediate surroundings risk the same fate as the High Seas where insubstantial governance has led to […]
What are the physical constraints on reported Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), also known in flying saucer circles as UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects? That’s at the underbelly of a new 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 Office. […]
The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Explorer “LuSEE Night” is a low frequency radio astronomy experiment to be emplaced on the farside of the Moon by the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program in late 2025 or early 2026. LuSEE-Night is a radio telescope developed in collaboration between NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE), with […]
Those radiation-measuring female mannequins, Helga and Zohar, are back in Cologne, Germany – fresh from their journey around the Moon. Positioned within the NASA Artemis 1’s Orion spacecraft, the astronaut “phantoms” are built to provide a three-dimensional image of the radiation exposure of the female body during a flight to the Moon and back. The […]
