October 30th, 2019
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The classified U.S. Air Force X-37B robotic space plane program has chalked up a new milestone. Touching down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility on October 27th, the Orbital Test Vehicle-5 (OTV-5) conducted on-orbit experiments for 780 days during its mission, breaking the program’s own record by being in orbit for more […]
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As Halloween is fast approaching, add this to the foreboding calendar date. Trick and treaters may want to take a glance into the night sky above their heads. In 2019 alone there have been an amazing 58,551 UFO sightings! What are the “most haunted” states in the U.S. based on where the most UFO sightings […]
China is blueprinting a plan for the country’s human exploration of the Moon. Chen Shanguang, deputy chief designer of China’s manned space program, outlined the plan at the 1st China Space Science Assembly held October 25-28 in Xiamen, east China’s Fujian Province. Reported by China’s Xinhua news agency, Chen said the objective is to […]
A troublesome update on the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) experiment deployed by NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. Reports Tilman Spohn of the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin: “This time, the news are not so good, unfortunately!” Spohn explains that the mole had backed-out of […]
Experts from all over the world convened this month in Luxembourg for the first Space Resources Week. The objective of the gathering, held October 7-11, was to discuss how best to explore our Solar System sustainably and limit costly transport of resources from Earth. On the last two days of Space Resources Week, the European […]
The China National Space Administration has announced that the Long March 5 Y-3 carrier rocket has safely arrived at the Qinglan Port in Wenchang in Hainan Province on Sunday. The ocean-going transport fleet that carried the rocket and components consisted of the Yuanwang-21 and Yuanwang-22 ships, belonging to the China Satellite Maritime Survey and Control […]
Last April, the Lunar Library, produced by the nonprofit charity, the Arch Mission Foundation, crash-landed on the Moon within the Israeli Beresheet Moon lander. Even though the attempted spacecraft landing failed, some 60,000 images and pages etched into nickel films surely survived intact and are now on the surface of the Moon – much to […]
The first-ever, in-depth investigation into how an asteroid would respond to a nuclear deflection attempt has been completed. The research was published by Acta Astronautica online Oct. 15 and will appear in print in early 2020. The focus of the investigation was 101955 Bennu, a massive asteroid that has a remote chance of crossing […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now carrying out Sol 2567 duties. Kristen Bennett, a planetary geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, reports that Curiosity is in an incredible area, with interesting rocks in the workspace and towering buttes ahead of the Mars machinery. “There are some color variations within the workspace, […]
There is growing discussion, debate, and frustration regarding future exploration of Mars and how best to hunt for past, even present life on the Red Planet. A wide range of thorny issues now require attention. Some of these have been brought to the fore by just round the corner private sector missions, cleanliness demands […]
