August 4th, 2025
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NASA has officially declared loss of the space agency’s Lunar Trailblazer designed to map lunar water. “Despite extensive efforts, mission operators were unable to establish two-way communications after losing contact with the spacecraft the day following its Feb. 26 launch,” a NASA statement explains. “Without two-way communications,” NASA adds, “the team was unable to fully […]
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On August 3, Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th human suborbital spaceflight and the 34th flight for the New Shepard program. Blue Origin’s New Shepard program has now flown 75 people into space, including five who have flown twice. The passengers on New Shepard-34 (NS-34) mission were Arvi Bahal, Gökhan Erdem, Deborah Martorell, Lionel Pitchford, […]
It is THE head-scratching biological question of time and space: the origin of life on Earth. The spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question in physics and chemistry, notes Robert G. Endres of the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College in London. Endres leads the Complex Adaptive […]
China’s Long March 8A launch from the Hainan Commercial Launch Site in Wenchang, Hainan created another worrisome issue for the Philippine Space Agency. The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) confirmed the launch of the rocket, expecting debris leftovers from the launch that were projected to have fallen within identified drop zones roughly 120 nautical miles (NM) […]
A Reason Foundation study calls for shifting the Artemis program to the commercial space industry, canceling unnecessary NASA programs related to the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS), Orion, Exploration Upper Stage, the Mobile Launch Platform-2, and the cis-lunar Gateway project. In its place, argues the Reason Foundation report, use the public-private partnerships that are transporting […]
Crew-11 scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 12:09 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Onboard: NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Russia’s […]
The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is preparing to launch its eighth mission (OTV-8) from Florida’s Space Coast, with liftoff scheduled no earlier than August 21. This upcoming flight comes after the completion of OTV-7 in March of this year. According to a Boeing statement, OTV-8 will fly with a service module. Doing so […]
Ooops! Gilmour Space Technologies carried out on July 30 the maiden test launch of Australia’s first locally designed and built orbital rocket. But the 23-meter, 30-tonne Eris rocket — powered by new hybrid propulsion technology — faltered roughly 14 seconds after liftoff from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in North Queensland, crashing to the ground. “Space […]
SpaceX Update: Starship moved to the launch site at Starbase in Texas for preflight testing:
Russia’s Dmitry Bakanov, the Director of Roscosmos, is scheduled to meet with Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy to discuss the cross-flight program and the future of the International Space Station. This is the first face-to-face meeting between the heads of Russian and US space agencies in eight years, according to a Roscosmos posting. During his […]
