December 11th, 2025
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China’s up and coming Qingzhou cargo spacecraft has completed multiple key technology verifications and entered integrated testing. Qingzhou, which means “Light Ship” in Chinese, is under development by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The vehicle is expected to provide a low-cost solution for transporting supplies to and from China’s […]
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From the folks that landed their Blue Ghost lander on the Moon in March of this year. Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas has announced a new commercial payload agreement on its Blue Ghost Mission 2 lander. Volta Space Technologies is providing a wireless power receiver, a technology demonstration for Volta’s planned lunar power network, […]
The late Willy Ley, a visionary science writer, rocketry advocate, and one of the earliest public voices to express what a true Space Age may become is on an Earth-departure trajectory. Next year, a symbolic portion of Willy Ley’s cremated remains will fly aboard Serenity Flight – an Earth-orbit memorial mission launching from Cape Canaveral. […]
A university team has found that small orbital debris hits can emit radio bursts when they collide or approach each other in space. The signal can be detected with large radio dishes on Earth, as well as satellites in orbit. One upshot of the research is to help monitor the onset of the “Kessler syndrome”- a […]
Overview Energy, a space startup, has announced its plan on building a constellation of large, deployable power-beaming satellites. Based in Ashburn, Virginia, the group has initiated an ongoing airborne program that has already demonstrated precise delivery of low-intensity, infrared light from a moving aircraft to solar panels on the ground. The power-beaming hardware uses the […]
A detailed blueprint for human exploration of the Red Planet centers on the first three crewed expeditions to Mars. Out of an agenda of what-to-do when there, a top priority for human investigation is the search for past or present life, and/or prebiotic chemistry on Mars. The just-issued study — A Science Strategy for the […]
The release of the U.S.-China Commission’s 2025 Annual Report to Congress covers a swath of topics, including China’s aggressive space agenda. “China has achieved major civil space milestones,” the report points out, such as the Chang’e-6 mission returning the first samples from the Moon’s far side. “These ‘global firsts’ are much more than just about […]
China’s Shenzhou-21 crew carried out their first spacewalk of the taikonauts projected six-month mission. The December 9th extravehicular activity (EVA) lasted roughly 8 hours, with astronauts Zhang Lu (commander) and Wu Fei making the space walk. Colleague Zhang Hongzhang assisted them from inside the Tianhe Core Module. Inspection of viewport window According to the China […]
The Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has issued a new paper focused on improving space governance and accelerating the growth of the space economy. Research Fellow Ely Sandler notes that, with human activity in outer space proliferating, existing international space law is ill-equipped to address emerging challenges such as militarization, […]
Mars Guy spotlights NASA’s Perseverance rover at Jezero Crater that carries the first successfully operating microphone on Mars. The robot has been building up a record of the Martian soundscape – as well as sound from the rover itself. “Now it has answered a longstanding question about Mars thanks to some shocking sounds,” explains Mars […]
