October 2nd, 2025
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China’ first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, was sent into space on May 29. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released an in-flight image, taken by a camera affixed to the probe’s robotic arm. Also captured in the image is the craft’s white sample return capsule. This en-route mission is headed for an over decade-long […]
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The SpaceX Starship’s eleventh flight test is to launch as soon as Monday, October 13. The launch window will open at 6:15 p.m. Central “Texas” Time. A SpaceX posting provides detail regarding what’s up with this flight test: The flight will build on the successful demonstrations from Starship’s tenth flight test with flight experiments gathering […]
“…we’re going to see an astronaut death within a few years,” reports a NASA whistleblower. Safety is a critical part of NASA’s culture, especially following the reforms put in place after the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. released a report “The Destruction of NASA’s Mission,” prepared by […]
Earth’s resource-rich Moon is overdue for detailed high-resolution maps to chart the whereabouts and concentrations of lunar water ice, Helium-3, radionuclides, rare earth elements, precious metals, and other materials. And that’s what a new undertaking may provide. Project Oasis is being developed jointly by Blue Origin’s Space Resources Center of Excellence and the company’s international […]
Mining the moon for Helium-3, how real the prospecting and can you make a business case for such an undertaking? There are several firms resolute that mining for Helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a true money-maker of a possibility. But is there an economic return on investment in scouring Earth’s moon for that natural […]
H-SMART is short speak for the HarmonEyes Human State Monitoring and Readiness Tool. This eye-tracking solution system is designed to gauge and forecast cognitive load and tiredness before it becomes a behavioral safety risk in spaceflight. Antarctic testing HarmonEyes of Bethesda, Maryland has been tapped by the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) […]
Blue Origin’s fleet of two New Shepard suborbital launch systems will be phased out by the close of 2027, with the firm moving forward on phasing in a trio of new vehicles. Those vehicles will offer rapid turn-around technologies, with the goal of achieving a weekly launch rate. In addition, Blue Origin is interested in […]
Russia is showcasing high-power plasma engines designed for deep space missions. They can be used for interorbital cargo transportation as well as support expeditions to the Moon and Mars and distant objects in the Solar System. The engines, developed by the Keldysh Center (part of the Roscosmos State Corporation), are on display for the first […]
By all accounts, that interstellar interloper — object 3I/ATLAS – is a big story. And it’s gotten bigger. It turns out that this celestial wanderer is massive and large. New research using data on the motion of 3I/ATLAS — as compiled by the Minor Planet Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory – implies that 3I/ATLAS […]
China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts have wrapped up their 4th series of extravehicular activities, spacewalking outside the country’s Tiangong space station. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie worked for roughly six hours in space, completing a set of assigned tasks and aided by Chen Dong inside the facility, along with […]
