October 1st, 2025
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Earth’s resource-rich Moon is overdue for detailed high-resolution maps to chart the whereabouts and concentrations of lunar water ice, Helium-3, radionuclides, rare earth elements, precious metals, and other materials. And that’s what a new undertaking may provide. Project Oasis is being developed jointly by Blue Origin’s Space Resources Center of Excellence and the company’s international […]
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Mining the moon for Helium-3, how real the prospecting and can you make a business case for such an undertaking? There are several firms resolute that mining for Helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a true money-maker of a possibility. But is there an economic return on investment in scouring Earth’s moon for that natural […]
H-SMART is short speak for the HarmonEyes Human State Monitoring and Readiness Tool. This eye-tracking solution system is designed to gauge and forecast cognitive load and tiredness before it becomes a behavioral safety risk in spaceflight. Antarctic testing HarmonEyes of Bethesda, Maryland has been tapped by the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) […]
Blue Origin’s fleet of two New Shepard suborbital launch systems will be phased out by the close of 2027, with the firm moving forward on phasing in a trio of new vehicles. Those vehicles will offer rapid turn-around technologies, with the goal of achieving a weekly launch rate. In addition, Blue Origin is interested in […]
Russia is showcasing high-power plasma engines designed for deep space missions. They can be used for interorbital cargo transportation as well as support expeditions to the Moon and Mars and distant objects in the Solar System. The engines, developed by the Keldysh Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), are on display for the first […]
By all accounts, that interstellar interloper — object 3I/ATLAS – is a big story. And it’s gotten bigger. It turns out that this celestial wanderer is massive and large. New research using data on the motion of 3I/ATLAS — as compiled by the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory – implies that 3I/ATLAS […]
China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts have wrapped up their 4th series of extravehicular activities, spacewalking outside the country’s Tiangong space station. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie worked for roughly six hours in space, completing a set of assigned tasks and aided by Chen Dong inside the facility, along with […]
NordSpace’s inaugural flight from the Atlantic Spaceport Complex has been complex and perplexing. Repeat launch attempts have been thwarted to fly the group’s pathfinder mission, called “Getting Screeched In”, a demonstration flight of the fully Canadian-made sub-orbital rocket – Taiga. As Canada’s first commercial spaceport, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) can support equatorial to polar […]
An international team of researchers from China, along with collaborators from the University of Hawaii, have used China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander data to probe water distribution on Moon. The research highlights the roles of solar wind and impact-driven gardening in the formation and evolution of lunar surface water. Lander plume Analyzing data from the Chang’e-6 […]
They came from outer space – 75 mice, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds, and other items. A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed September 19 in the steppes of the Orenburg region after spending 30 days in Earth orbit. Why was this mission important for future human space travel? For details, […]
