December 21st, 2024
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All of the recent sightings of puzzling unidentified aircraft in New Jersey and other states have triggered yet another round of unanswered questions, along with fueling conspiracy theories. For one, the odd objects have sparked a visual public mayday and melee – one that might be mirroring elements of the on-going Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) […]
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Are we moving closer to the day of “downing” Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), often tied to UFOs? In the lexicon of what’s up in the sky that has become unidentifiable, there’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), and also “drones.” Whatever is up with the wave of sky sightings, are there any lessons […]
The Mars-circling NASA spacecraft – the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) – has used its super-powerful High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera system to catch a view of NASA’s now retired InSight Mars lander. Built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, InSight landed back in November 2018, carrying out duties to reveal details about […]
On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Defense publicly released its annual report, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This annual report to Congress features a number of space-related activities underway by China, from use of space for military purposes, reusable rocketry and space planes, to deep […]
China’s Shenzhou-19 crew carried out their first space walking duties outside the Tiangong space station. In doing so, they set a new record for the duration of EVAs by Chinese astronauts, said the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Lasting nine hours, the Tuesday stroll was the longest among the 17 EVAs so far carried out in […]
Introducing Endurance: An Enduring Long-distance Robotic Lunar Rover It is robotic moon machinery on steroids. Tagged as the Endurance sample return mission, it would collect bits and pieces from key lunar locations for later retrieval by NASA Artemis moonwalkers. Furthermore, high-value collectibles snagged from those distant spots would be hauled back to Earth by astronauts. […]
An updated detailed map of the polar regions of the Moon is available, work done by researchers at the Geochemical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Department of Lunar and Planetary Research of Moscow State University. The map is based on a digital elevation model constructed using data from the laser […]
NASA has released a new document that highlights programmatic paradigm shifts in further exploration of the Red Planet over the next 20 years. This plan was prepared for the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Mars Exploration Program (MEP). The report is titled Expanding the Horizons of Mars Science – A Plan for a Sustainable Science […]
NASA welcomed onboard the Artemis Accords two new nations today, bringing the total to 50 signatories of a set of principles promoting the beneficial use of space for humanity. Panama and Austria signed the Artemis Accords during separate signing ceremonies at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 49th and 50th nations to sign on the […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) will premier Space Debris: Is it a Crisis? at the 9th European Conference on Space Debris being held in Bonn, Germany. As our use of space accelerates like never before, satellites find themselves navigating increasingly congested orbits. Space has become an environment crisscrossed by streams of fast-moving debris fragments – […]
