December 31st, 2019
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2631 duties. New imagery from the robot includes the following photos. Blackwaterfoot is under intense scrutiny by Curiosity.
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India is reportedly moving ahead with its Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission, a 2020 flight of a lander and rover – apparently minus an orbiter. The Hindustan Times reports that minister of state for department of space, Jitendra Singh, confirmed the Chandrayaan-3 lunar exploration trek on Tuesday. Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander suffered a propulsion problem en route […]
China’s Long March-5 Y3 rocket that successfully flew December 27th was largely improved in many technical aspects compared with two previous flights. Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), declared the launch a success. The rocket’s flight lays the foundation for a series of future space projects for the country including […]
China has successfully launched the third Long March-5 rocket, a class of booster tasked for the Chang’e-5 Moon mission in 2020 to bring lunar samples back to Earth. The rocket is scheduled to loft China’s first Mars probe, also in 2020. This third flight of the booster blasted off from the coastal launch center at […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now wrapping up Sol 2626 tasks. Curiosity science team members have put together a last plan of the decade for the robot, reports Dawn Sumner, a planetary geologist at the University of California, Davis. Sols 2631-2633 have been scripted, “which will be the last 3 martian days before we come […]
China’s Long March-5 booster is being readied for its third flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province. Launch date of the carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y3, appears to be December 27th. The Long March-5 booster is essential for China’s future space station, Moon and Mars exploration plans. In […]
Researchers have found that phosphine is produced by another, less abundant life form: anaerobic organisms, such as bacteria and microbes, that don’t require oxygen to thrive. Therefore, if phosphine is detected from a rocky planet, it would be an unmistakable sign of extraterrestrial life, they report in a paper recently published in the journal Astrobiology. […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2623 tasks. Recent imagery from the robot includes these scenic views:
U.S. President Trump has signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act and with it, directed the establishment of the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) will be stood-up over the next 18 months. In signing ceremonies at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland on December 20th, President […]
China’s Long March-5 booster is being readied for its third flight at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province. The carrier rocket, coded as Long March-5 Y3, is planned to be launched around the end of December, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). A LaunchStuff twitter posting pegs the liftoff […]
