May 6th, 2020
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2755 tasks. A minor issue with the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument caused rover arm activities to stop prior to drilling at the “Glasgow” target. However, new imagery shows that issue resolved and drilling appears to have taken place. Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology […]
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China’s Long March-5B rocket was launched on Tuesday at 6 p.m. (Beijing time) from the Wenchang Space Launch Site. The booster hurled into space a test model of the country’s new crewed spaceship. The rocket is the fourth variant of the Long March-5 (LM-5) series and offers the most boost power in the Long […]
Danish space architects are building and plan to test this year a Moon home for everyone. Two members of the design team will live for three months (91 days) in a Moon analogue habitat to be positioned in the Arctic, Greenland. The project is dubbed LUNARK, developed by SAGA Space Architects in Copenhagen, Denmark. Their […]
Map the quietest places in the world to find the best places to go for peace and quiet! Download a free app and make a sound level measurement from wherever you are, and upload the data to a map of the world. Do you have any favorite urban, suburban or rural places you think […]
Around the planet, a loosely knit but closely woven band of amateurs monitor the whereabouts of satellites – be they secretive spacecraft, robotic space drones, rocket stages, orbital debris leftovers, or lost-in-space planetary probes. But what’s the motivation behind this group of sky prowling spirits? What kind of tools are they using now or in […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing 2751 Sol duties. Mars researchers are preparing to drill in this weekend’s plan, a target named “Glasgow,” reports Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory “Combined with ‘Hutton,’ these three drilled samples will give us a wonderful snapshot of the range of compositions of […]
The first Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) observations have been carried out by China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) – the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory. The newly commissioned FAST used a 19 beam receiver in its inaugural SETI work. Data stream In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal that details […]
A few days ago, the Department of Defense (DOD) authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017. The U.S. Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in […]
NASA’s Mars exploration program is in calamitous straits. Proposed reductions in the President’s fiscal year 2021 budget may well pull the plug on the ensemble of veteran orbiters and the space agency’s only active Mars rover, Curiosity. That off-world machinery has been on the red planet prowl since early August 2012. If unchanged, the budget […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now working Sol 2748 tasks. Mars researchers are planning the rover’s activities at the next planned drill site, Reports Sean Czarnecki, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe. That plan is to gather science data about the site before drilling “Glasgow.” “This is very similar to what […]
