March 8th, 2023
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NASA’s Perseverance rover is busily wheeling and dealing with Mars at Jezero Crater, picking up samples of that way off world. Some of these extraterrestrial goodies are to be express-rocketed to Earth in the 2030’s. Getting that precious freight back to Earth and evaluated in labs is an international and elaborate affair guided by […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3763 duties. A recent report from Natalie Moore, a mission operations specialist at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California, notes the work of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite team. They were deciding whether to proceed with further analysis of […]
Movie director Steven Spielberg shares a provocative theory about UFOs, and gives careful consideration to TV’s Stephen Colbert’s pitch for a sequel to his landmark 1982 film, “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” For more information on Spielberg’s speculation about UFOs, go to this segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at: “There’s Something Out […]
At the National Museum of China in Beijing, the “30 years of achievements exhibition” of China’s Human Space Program presented concepts of a human lunar lander, a new-generation spacecraft, and the Long March-10 concept launch vehicle. Image credits: China Central Television (CCTV)/China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC)/Inside Outer Space screengrab. […]
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other astronomy groups are petitioning the United Nations to address the impact of satellites on dark and quiet skies. An international collaboration involving ESO has submitted a paper to the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) proposing a new “Expert Group” to protect dark and […]
China’s Shenzhou-15 crew has carried out a second spacewalk outside the country’s Tiangong space station. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), Fei Junlong, commander of the mission, along with colleague Zhang Lu, have completed the spacewalk and have returned to the station’s Wentian lab module. The third crew member, Deng Qingming, stayed […]
Wait a minute! A number of Moon exploration missions by numbers of nations are planned for the next decade. The target areas of the Moon being eyed are likely to be a handful of small sites of interest, to carry out science investigations as well as process lunar materials to churn out construction materials, rocket […]
The ispace Hakuto-R Mission 1 lunar lander is now on a trajectory to the Moon with a scheduled landing for the end of April – the first privately-led Japanese mission to attempt to land on the lunar landscape. This Moon-bound probe was launched in December of last year via a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster […]
The European Space Agency has invited private space companies in Europe and Canada “to create a shared commercial telecommunication and navigation service for lunar missions by putting a constellation of satellites around the Moon. According to a European Space Agency (ESA) statement, ESA “will either lead or be an international partner in many of these […]
This exceptional work is divided into three parts to embrace seven solid chapters that range from the dawn of the global space age, applied witchcraft and technical wizardry to spacepower at war and war on the cosmic coastline Bleddyn E. Bowen is an associate professor of international relations at the University of Leicester, specializing in […]
