July 26th, 2019
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The City of Kent, Washington and the Kent Downtown Partnership in King County, Washington received historic landmark designation on July 25 for the Lunar Roving Vehicles that were built in Kent at the Boeing Space Center and used in Apollo Missions 15, 16 and 17 in 1971 and 1972. The designation was unanimously passed […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now concluding Sol 2477 tasks. “Europeans, Californians… and many others on the team watched their thermometers rise to record highs today, reaching 36 °C,” reports Susanne Schwenzer, a planetary geologist at The Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K. Thinking about planning, Schwenzer adds, where the Mars researchers think about cold, wintertime […]
India’s Chandrayaan–2 continues to make progress – a lunar orbiter/lander/rover mission. A second Earth bound orbit raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully today (July 26, 2019) at 0108 hrs (IST) as planned, using the onboard propulsion system for a firing duration of 883 seconds. The Moon mission’s orbit is now 156 […]
NanoRacks released today its NASA-funded Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Commercialization study. The four-month long LEO Commercialization Study came out of the Administration and NASA’s efforts to understand the role of the private sector in creating a sustainable LEO marketplace, allowing NASA to focus its energies going forward to the Moon and onwards to Mars. NanoRacks was […]
For the first time in China, a carrier rocket developed by a private company has successfully sent satellites into orbit. iSpace’s Hyperbola-1 launch vehicle was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China, on July 25, 2019, at 05:00 UTC (13:00 local time). Solid fuel launcher Hyperbola-1 is a four-stage […]
The House Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics holds a hearing today to discuss the importance of government-industry collaboration in achieving space exploration and maintaining U.S. leadership on this issue. Witnesses and their respective testimony: Dr. Bhavya Lal, Research Staff Member, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/2019-07-25%20Testimony%20Lal.pdf Ms. Carissa Christensen, Chief Executive […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now closing out Sol 2476 duties. Reports Ashley Stroupe, a mission operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the robot is parked at the base of the southern escarpment of the Visionarium. “She’s at a significant tilt of 21 degrees,” Stroupe adds. “We’ve been imaging this ridge from several […]
The polar regions of Earth’s Moon may contain significantly more water ice than previously thought, according to new research by space scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Shoring up this belief are two decades of observations from telescopes and spacecraft, not of the Moon, but the planet Mercury. What’s been […]
Join me at Spacefest X – August 8 – 11, 2019 – at the JW Marriott at Starr Pass, Tucson, Arizona. Speaking ScheduleAll times subject to change. Free Talks 1 Moon and Mars Exploration: Where are We Headed? Salons A & B Friday 8/9 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM Leonard David, Confirmed Booksigning Tucson Ballroom […]
A partnership between the City of Kent, Washington and Kent Downtown have applied to receive historic landmark designation for the Lunar Roving Vehicles that were built at the Boeing Space Center. A public hearing in front of the King County Landmarks Commission will be held on Thursday, July 25 at the Kent City […]
