August 28th, 2025
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SpaceX has posted the following account of the Starship’s tenth flight test, highlighting milestones achieved (slightly abridged): The flight test began on August 26, 2025 at 6:40 p.m. Central Time from Starbase, Texas. Super Heavy lifted off by igniting all 33 Raptor engines and ascending over the Gulf of America. Hot-staging maneuver Ascent was followed […]
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A Canadian space startup is taking one small step toward an orbital capability. NordSpace is launching a pathfinder demonstration flight of its fully Canadian-made suborbital rocket – Taiga. The launch window is currently August 29, with Taiga’s liftoff from NordSpace’s Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) SLC-02, outside the town of St. Lawrence in Newfoundland and Labrador, […]
China’s quest to land the country’s astronauts on the moon by 2030 is on full throttle. That was clearly evident in an August 15 ground test of the first stage propulsion system of the Long March 10 (CZ-10) launch vehicle, China’s in-development rocket to boost a crewed spacecraft and a two-person lunar lander toward the […]
Once again, the Philippine Space Agency has issued an advisory regarding the August 26th launch of China’s Long March 8A booster from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan. The Long March 8A hurled a new satellite group into space early Tuesday, the tenth of its kind that […]
Launched a few months ago, NASA’s SPHEREx space-based observatory has focused in on that interstellar intruder, object 3I/ATLAS. The spacecraft has found strong water ice absorption and an extended carbon dioxide coma. SPHEREx is short-speak for, get ready and steady – Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer. Sent […]
That secretive U.S. Space Force X-37B space plane in Earth orbit is under surveillance by amateur satellite trackers. The Orbital Test Vehicle-8 (OTV-8), also labeled as USSF-36, was lofted on August 21 and has deployed in Earth orbit a payload dubbed Limasat, probably ejected from the space plane’s service module. That’s the take from sky […]
Nearly half a century has passed since the detection of what’s termed the “Wow! Signal” – a strong, unexplained radio burst captured by Ohio State University’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project in 1977, also known as the “Big Ear.” That Wow! of a cosmic outburst remains one of the most enticing but perplexing mysteries […]
China’s Chang’e-6 Moon sampling mission continues to provide key information on the formation of the Apollo Basin – a huge impact basin on the lunar far side. The new research could help explain the apparent early impact flux during the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) period of the Moon and the solar system. It has […]
Russia’s Bion-M No. 2 – a unique biosatellite including 75 mice – rocketed skyward from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This “Noah’s Ark” of space also carries 1,000 fruit flies, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds, and other items. Russia’s Soyuz 2.1a booster was used to propel the Bion-M No. 2 into a nearly circular orbit at an […]
I am pleased to report I have received the National Space Club Florida Committee’s 2025 Harry Kolcum News and Communications Award. About the Award: The National Space Club Florida Committee each year recognizes area representatives of the news media and communications professionals for excellence in telling the space story along Florida’s Space Coast and throughout the […]
