March 4th, 2020
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is wrapping up Sol 2693 duties. The robot is making progress on its “impressive ascent,” reports Susanne Schwenzer, a planetary geologist at the Open University; Milton Keynes, U.K. “The planning started with intense discussions on the question of what to do, and for a very good reason,” Schwenzer notes. “The […]
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A new collaboration to detect and characterize near-Earth asteroids large enough to cause significant damage melds together radio astronomy and radar techniques. The new agreement brings together the talents of Raytheon and the National Science Foundation radio astronomy facilities to detect dark asteroids in space. Radar imagery The Raytheon-NRAO/GBO collaboration will integrate […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2693 tasks. A selection of new imagery from the robot shows its progress to date: […]
China’s Chang’e-4 lander and rover have concluded their work for the 15th lunar day. Both have switched to “dormant” mode for the 14-day lunar night. The rover — Yutu-2 — has worked much longer than its three-month design life, becoming the longest-working lunar rover on the Moon, reports the Xinhua news agency. It has […]
The spread of COVID-19/Coronavirus has impacted major upcoming space gatherings. In a statement from the Space Foundation regarding its 36th Space Symposium to be held March 30th – April 2nd, 2020 at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, plans are continuing to move forward but the organization is continually monitoring all of the reporting from the […]
360video 8K: https://youtu.be/DeeHOQkzGeE This panorama combines 85 exposures taken by the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the Sol 2687 of Curiosity’s work on Mars (February 27, 2020). NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2690 tasks. […]
China’s lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, is using its Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) to investigate the farside’s underground it roams. A study conducted by a research team led by Li Chunlai and Su Yan at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) using that data reveals what lurks below the […]
New research debunks the various conspiracy theories surrounding the 1967 death of Soyuz-1 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the first fatality of a spacefarer during a space mission. An official Soyuz-1 “Onboard Journal” document has been translated and analyzed that contains information not previously available to researchers or the public, including details from the final […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2688 tasks. The rover is on the move, reports Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Over the last couple of weeks, the Curiosity science team engaged in a series of long debates about where we should go after we completed our analyses […]
The first docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) to the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) spacecraft in order to provide life-extension services has been accomplished. The February 25 event marks the first time two commercial satellites have docked in orbit and the first time that mission extension services will be offered to a satellite in geosynchronous […]
