November 26th, 2020
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Wu Weiren, the chief design engineer of China’s lunar project, said his country plans to build a prototype for a lunar scientific research station. The prototype, which will consist of multiple detectors operating in lunar orbit and on the lunar surface, would carry out scientific and technological research on the Moon, as well as verify […]
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In search for extraterrestrial intelligence circles, the famous “Wow!” signal appears to be a still-standing indication of detecting other starfolk. Reports Alberto Caballero, an amateur astronomer and one of the founders of The Exoplanets Channel: “As of October 2020, the WOW! Signal remains the strongest candidate SETI signal.” The Wow! signal was a strong […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2952 duties.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2952 tasks. “Our weekend drive stopped a bit shorter than planned when Curiosity played it safe rolling up a particularly steep (~20 degrees) slope,” reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. But even with the rover parked at a tilt, […]
China’s Chang’e-5 Moon mission faces a complex set of step-by-step stages to collect and return lunar samples back to Earth. The craft’s departure atop a Long March-5 Y5 booster from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site occurred at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time. Weighing 8.2 tons, Chang’e-5 consists of an orbiter, a lander, an ascender and […]
Given success of China’s Chang’e-5 mission to haul back to Earth lunar specimens, the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) is establishing procedures to share the material with international colleagues. Lin Yangting, professor with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of Chinese Academy of Science, told China Global Television Network that researchers need to hand in […]
(Washington, DC) Today, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas emphasized the risk the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses to American international leadership in science and technology following the launch of the CCP’s Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon. “The launch of Chang’e-5 is a significant step by China towards their goal […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2949 tasks. “While it doesn’t rain in Gale crater, Curiosity is quite familiar with wind, and she watches out for the atmospheric phenomena around herself,” reports Susanne Schwenzer, a planetary geologist at The Open University; Milton Keynes, U.K. “As we are again in the dust storm […]
China is marching forward on the launch next week of the Chang’e-5 lunar mission – a complicated undertaking to haul back to Earth samples of the Moon. In preparation, south China’s Wenchang Space Launch Center rolled out to the launch pad the lunar probe’s carrier rocket, the Long March-5. China’s second-generation space tracking ship, Yuanwang-3, […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2948 tasks. “We are continuing our ‘benches’ mini-campaign and the current bench is spread out before us like a brick road on our way to our next stop,” reports Scott Guzewich, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Curiosity is continuing to study these erosion-resistant […]
