September 23rd, 2024
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China is pressing forward on a major space drive into deep space, highlighted on Monday by Chinese President Xi Jinping asking personnel in China’s space industry to continue to work hard and accelerate progress in space endeavors. Xi met with space scientists and engineers Monday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, meeting […]
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A documentary video – “Back to the Far Side” – has been released by the China Global Television Network (CGTN) and the China National Space Administration (CNSA). This behind-the-scenes video captures the intense and sometimes emotional outcomes from drilling and scooping up far side samples during the Chang’e-6 lunar mission. The Chinese engineering team spent […]
Lunar collectibles from China’s Chang’e-6 far side Moon mission have been unveiled with geochemical researchers finding the returned-to-Earth samples markedly different from the samples retrieved by the Apollo missions and China’s earlier Chang’e-5 lunar sample mission. The samples, weighing a total of 1,935.3 grams, were retrieved by Chang’e-6 in June this year, and spotlighted […]
New research indicates that potential landing sites at the moon’s south pole for robotic landers and crewed Artemis missions are susceptible to quakes and landslides. Science results published early this year point to a group of faults located in the moon’s south polar region, making use of data on moonquakes recorded by seismometers set up […]
While that mysterious Chinese space plane rolled to full stop on a landing strip earlier this month, little is known about the craft. It was hurled into orbit on December 14, 2023 atop a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The whatever it is and does spacecraft touched […]
A spacecraft that is hot on the trail of scouting out super-cold water ice on the Moon is the Caltech-led Lunar Trailblazer orbiter. This NASA-backed mission is to be co-launched with the Intuitive Machines (IM-2), a Nova-C lunar lander now dubbed Athena under the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. The unique Lunar […]
In the hush-hush, secretive world of space-based spy satellites, few details are publicly available – and groups like the U.S. Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency like it that way. There’s an armada of classified spacecraft assigned an array of vigilant duties. Some intercept radio waves or […]
Still on a roll on the Moon is China’s Yutu-2 far side rover. Wheeling and dealing with the scenery within the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the mini-robot has traveled 5,292 feet (1,613 meters) as of Tuesday, report its operators. It is currently the longest-working lunar rover in history, noted China Central […]
In an era of increasing global launch rates, heightened by the buckshot approach to tossing mega-satellite constellations into Earth orbit, there’s also escalating anxiety about the ramifications from reentry of defunct space hardware. What’s lacking in the United States is a single coordinated effort, one that is consistently funded and engages a variety of disciplines. […]
The size of the cislunar market industrial base is in growth mode. A new lunar activities infographic has been assembled by BryceTech of Alexandria, Virginia. “As interest in lunar exploration grows, both government and commercial programs are pushing forward,” BryceTech notes. “Companies are now focusing on essential services like transportation, telecommunications, and maintenance, and even […]
