May 11th, 2020
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2760 tasks. New imagery from the robot shows the fine material called “drill tailings” that surrounds the new “Glasgow” drill hole, reports Melissa Rice, Planetary Geologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Some of the rock taken from inside the drill hole will be […]
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A new report — China’s Space and Counterspace Capabilities and Activities – offers examines China’s military and civil space programs, including the role of military-civil fusion and international cooperation in the development of its space program. The just-issued 115-page report was prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission by the Project 2049 Institute […]
China’s new-generation crewed spacecraft successfully landed at the Dongfeng landing site, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, on May 8, 2020, at 05:49 UTC (13:49 local time). During the two days and 19 hours in orbit, the uncrewed spacecraft carried out a series of space science and technology experiments. The spacecraft was transported to the […]
The goal of planetary protection is to control, to the degree possible, the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies. A recently released National Academies of Science (NAS) report — Assessment of the Report of NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (2020) – took a hard look at the observations of a NASA-charted Planetary Protection Independent Review […]
China’s new-generation manned spaceship (unscrewed) successfully returned to the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 8, 2020. The return capsule successfully returned to the Dongfeng landing site at 1:49 p.m. (Beijing Time) Friday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). […]
The return capsule of China’s experimental manned spacecraft with no crew safely landed at the Dongfeng landing site in the desert of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 13:49 Beijing Time (05:49 GMT), according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO). China Central Television (CCTV) reported that the search team quickly found the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2757 duties. A second try at drilling the “Glasgow” target proved successful creating the 26th drill hole on Mars! “It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a little over a month since we drilled our last sample ‘Edinburgh.’ Curiosity is certainly making quick progress in the […]
China’s experimental new-generation piloted spaceship is working normally in orbit according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The experimental spaceship was launched Tuesday evening without crew by China’s new large carrier rocket Long March-5B from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China’s island province of Hainan. The craft […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2756 tasks. New imagery of the robot’s drilling efforts at the “Glasgow” target:
The next X-37B robotic space plane is scheduled to launch on May 16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. One experiment onboard the craft will transform solar power into radio frequency microwave energy which could then be transmitted to the ground. In an announcement released today, the Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities […]
