February 25th, 2023
Author: 
Zhou Jianping, the chief designer of the China Manned Space Program (CMS), has outlined plans for growth of the country’s space station. China’s space station, so far, is outfitted with 14 experimental cabinets that have been installed, with the country eyeing the encouragement of international cooperation. “We have been doing things in this sector. […]
Posted in 
China has finished recruiting a total of six astronauts for spaceflight missions in 2023. Chinese astronauts will be on regular duty at the country’s space station in the future. Each batch of astronauts will support a mission duration of six months. There will be two batches of six astronauts in total to conduct spaceflight missions […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3752 duties. Is Tap Caparo drillable? That’s the question facing Mars researchers, reports Natalie Moore, a mission operations specialist at Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California. Perhaps this drilling target is too hard like the robot’s last Marker Band drill attempts at […]
A Beijing exhibition is serving as backdrop for spotlighting China’s human space program – one that will focus on two major missions in the near future: the application and development of the space station, as well as human lunar exploration. The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) is taking part in the exhibition, kicked off […]
New scenery shots from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale crater. Curiosity Mast Camera (Mastcam) Left imagery taken on Sol 3749, February 22, 2023.
There’s sky-soaring fear and drama in ballooning as evidenced by recent jet fighter shoot downs of airborne objects over Alaska, Canada, and Lake Huron. Then there’s that earlier Chinese mega-balloon puncturing event, described by top U.S. policy wonks and lawmakers as a spy surveillance system, one that violated American sovereignty and sullied international law. More […]
Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 is ready for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Typically the craft is flown piloted, but is only housing supplies and is headed spaceward in uncrewed mode to replace Soyuz MS-22. That older Soyuz is now docked to the International Space Station. Back on December 15, 2022, it experienced a thermal […]
Russia’s Scientific and Technical Council has approved the decision to extend the operation of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2028. The meeting was held at Roscosmos. “The management of the State Corporation, its enterprises and organizations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-executors of work on the ISS project, discussed […]
Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-23 non-crewed spacecraft has been transported to the launch complex at the 31st site of Baikonur. What now follows is three days of preparation and launch of the unpiloted Soyuz on February 24 at 03:24:29 Moscow Time. The ship is designed to replace the “emergency” Soyuz MS-22 (compromised due […]
Space Solar Power: Progress Reported in Air Force Demo Program https://www.leonarddavid.com/space-solar-power-progress-reported-in-air-force-demo-program/ Mars Helicopter: Flight 43 – High Flying Views https://www.leonarddavid.com/mars-helicopter-flight-43-high-flying-views/ Russia Readies Unpiloted Soyuz for February 24 liftoff https://www.leonarddavid.com/russia-readies-unpiloted-soyuz-for-february-24-liftoff/ Curiosity Mars Rover: New Drill Hole – Insufficient Depth https://www.leonarddavid.com/curiosity-mars-rover-new-drill-hole-insufficient-depth/
