January 7th, 2025
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“It’s time to fly,” said Jarrett Jones, SVP, for the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket program. New Glenn’s first liftoff is now targeted for no earlier than January 10. The booster’s inaugural mission (NG-1) will lift off from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The three-hour launch window opens at 1 […]
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That U.S. Space Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-7) has silently slipped past one-year of flight time. The craft is engaged in performing aerobrake maneuvers, a technique to alter its orbit around Earth, as well as safely dispose of its attached service module. Lofted in December of 2023, the military spaceplane was placed in an […]
There is a possible candidate for that large metallic ring that fell from the sky on December 30 in Africa, reportedly crashing “red-hot” into Mukuku village, in Makueni county – in the country’s south. Investigators with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia reported that the object, which is roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) […]
The seventh flight test of the SpaceX Starship atop its Super Heavy booster is being readied for launch. According to SpaceX, the upcoming flight test, reportedly targeted for January 10, will launch a new generation ship “with significant upgrades.” In addition, there will be an attempt for Starship’s first payload deployment test, fly multiple […]
About that possible space debris landing in Africa. Comment from “Ed”: “Check out the Ariane 5 Space Debris (33155) that reentered around the same time. It was equatorial and more likely to be a candidate at the time of reentry.” However, the reentry messages from space track, Ed adds, would have both the […]
NASA wants to bring Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. Meanwhile, there appears to be an unofficial robotic space race underway involving the Red Planet. Both the U.S. and China are scripting a strategy for bringing back to Earth goodies […]
Talk about ring in the New Year! Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on December 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) fell from the sky, reportedly “red-hot” and crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county […]
The China Manned Space Agency on Monday released a first-ever progress report on the output from the country’s space station. This CMSA report provides an overview of the work accomplished over the past two years. Over those years, China carried out four crewed flights, three cargo resupply missions, and four spacecraft return missions. Five […]
It seems fair to say that this year has arguably been a page-turner in defining and refining interest in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), an aerial off-shoot — rightly or wrongly — of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), of alien-flown flying saucers sprinting through our skies. There have been back-to-back open Congressional hearings and several classified gatherings in […]
China has approved new lunar sample research applications from institutions, permitting them to borrow samples returned by both the country’s Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 missions. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, a total of 8,550.4 milligrams of lunar samples will be lent to 18 researchers from 16 research institutions, such as the China University of Geosciences […]
