July 25th, 2023
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander/rover mission continues to chalk up success in raising its orbit, leading to the spacecraft’s upcoming TransLunar Injection (TLI) maneuver. Chandrayaan-3’s TLI is reportedly scheduled for early August 1, Indian Standard Time. If successful, the Moon explorer will then go into lunar orbit, perform a series of maneuvers, followed by a […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3898 duties. Curiosity’s road trip involves wheeling through the Jau crater cluster. “Like any road trip, we’re taking frequent stops to take in the sights, and at this spot Curiosity gets to stretch its arm with a touch and go,” reports Alex Innanen, an […]
Roscosmos and JSC NPO Lavochkina both report progress in readying the Soyuz booster complex at the Vostochny Space Center for launch of Russia’s Luna-25 Moon lander. Late last week, specialists were on task preparing and checking all systems and units before receiving the space rocket. Launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Luna-25 […]
If you follow the complex and perplexing world of Unidentified Flying Objects, now tied to the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, we may be inching toward “full disclosure.” What that means is uncorking the bottle filled to the brim with an elixir of truth, say disclosure activists, that Earth has been on the receiving end of […]
Looking at a range of high-adrenaline activities, experts from ARKA conducted research to find recent thrilling high-risk activities that have captivated the interest of billionaires worldwide. According to ARKA, a creator of custom boxes, flying around the Moon would be the most expensive and risky activity undertaken by billionaires. Space treks into Earth orbit is […]
For the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, it is up and at ‘em for flight 53. The aerial device made its last flight back on April 27. JPL notes that the craft has an expected flight date of July 22. The stats for this high-flying run are: Horizontal flight distance: 666.34 feet (203.1 meters) […]
It is tagged as “planetary geoarchaeology” – the study of how cultural and natural processes on Earth’s Moon, on Mars, and across the solar system may be altering, preserving or destroying the material record of space exploration. In a recent paper appearing in the journal Geoarchaeology, tools and methods are being advocated to study the […]
A congressionally mandated study is underway to review NASA’s critical facilities, workforce, and technology – the key ingredients needed for the space agency to apply full-power to its long-term strategic goals and mission objectives, such as back to the Moon…onward to Mars endeavors. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study […]
LITTLETON, Colorado – As NASA’s first mission to collect a sample from an asteroid screams toward Earth, recovery teams are practicing steps needed to assure that those bits of extraterrestrial flotsam safely arrive on Earth for detailed scientific inspection. The scene is here at the Lockheed Martin Space campus; a sprawling facility […]
China’s Shenzhou-16 crew completed their first spacewalk, installing and adjusting camera devices outside the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The taikonaut spacewalkers were mission commander Major General Jing Haipeng and spaceflight engineer Colonel Zhu Yangzhu. Professor Gui Haichao, the mission’s science payload specialist, stayed inside the space station to […]
