August 7th, 2023
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Russia’s Roscosmos has posted the liftoff date/time for the country’s Luna-25 robotic Moon lander: August 11 at 02:10:57 Moscow time. Luna-25 is targeted for a south pole landing, with the probe testing out soft landing technology, analyze the soil, conduct long-term scientific research, as well as investigate the lunar exosphere. […]
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander/rover mission is in a lunar orbit of 102 miles (164 kilometers) by 11,230 miles (18,074 kilometers), as intended. The next maneuver by the Moon-orbiting spacecraft is scheduled for August 6, between 22:30 and 23:30 Indian Standard Time (IST). According to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), as the mission progresses, a […]
“On July 31, Perseverance spotted Ingenuity in a place far from its last known location but well short of where it was supposed to be based on the posted flight plan. Does this mean that Ingenuity had an emergency landing?” Mars Guy explores the altering of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter’s flight plan […]
Just how much human-made space garbage is currently circling the Earth? What countries are in the “space junk race” to clutter up the heavens? The folks at Visual Capitalist have created the infographic: “Space Debris: The Earth’s Orbiting Threat,” an effort led by Preyash Shah, expert in technology, business and maps for the […]
The Ingenuity helicopter flew its 54th time, a pop-up flight with the device achieving hovering mode to altitude of 16 feet (5 meters), staying aloft for 24.62 seconds. These rotorcraft images were acquired on August 3, taken by its navigation camera mounted in the […]
A just-issued report offers a new avenue for exploring Mars, one that would entail flying lower-costing missions to the Red Planet. A Mars Concurrent Exploration Science Analysis Group has scoped out the highest priority science that should be conducted in parallel with the NASA/European Space Agency Mars Sample Return (MSR) program – the mega-billion dollar […]
How can you transport materials across the Moon’s surface and keep annoying, debilitating dust out of lunar habitats? Enter a Caltech team that is designing a Lunar Architecture for Tree Traversal in-service-of Cable Exploration, space speak boiled down to LATTICE. The LATTICE team is looking into a self-deploying modular robotic system for transporting ice and […]
Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space and a veteran of three shuttle missions, created the highly-informative Kathy Sullivan Explores podcast. Since June 2021, the podcasts have focused on science, art, space, and the most memorable moments of Sullivan’s life so far. Listen to her short “Farewell for Now” episode and also […]
India’s ambitious Moon exploration spacecraft, the Chandrayaan-3, is now en route to its lunar target. The lander is to unleash a rover, both stuffed with scientific instruments to inspect the lunar surface in the southern lunar hemisphere. “Next stop: the Moon,” declared an Internet posting from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). All appears on […]
China’s Moon exploration plans call for deep diving into permanently shadowed areas of the lunar south pole. The country’s Chang’e-7 mission is slated to take place around 2026 and utilize a mini-flying probe to investigate the permanently-shadowed bottom of an impact crater. The Chang’e-7 mission consists of an orbiter, lander, the hopper and […]
