March 1st, 2019
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China’s Chang’e-4 farside lander wakes up for third sunrise on the Moon. That’s the word according to a China Central Television (CCTV) report, as noted by China Global Television Network (CGTN). The farside lander awoke from a three-week hibernation at 7:52 BJT on Friday. The lander is now back to normal conditions […]
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China’s Chang’e-4 farside lander wakes up for third sunrise on the Moon. That’s the word according to a China Central Television (CCTV) report, as noted by China Global Television Network (CGTN). The farside lander awoke from a three-week hibernation at 7:52 BJT on Friday. The lander is now back to normal conditions and will continue […]
NASA’s high-flying Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has imaged a recent impact event in Noachis Terra in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars. The impact was initially discovered in a 2016 MRO Context Camera image, and was not seen in a 2009 picture. “This implies that the impact may be only two years old, but certainly no […]
In IMAX for one week only starting March 1, everywhere March 8, from director Todd Douglas Miller comes a NEON/CNN cinematic event fifty years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of […]
Japan’s Hayabusa2 successfully touched down on asteroid Ryugu on February 22 (JST). It turns out that the gentle cosmic kiss between spacecraft and space rock wasn’t without incident. In a posted update from the team: “It was a long week for the team members! Until just before the start of the descent, we examined every […]
The United Arab Emirates announced on Monday that one of two UAE astronauts will fly to the International Space Station later this year. That person will be the first Arab astronaut to travel to the orbiting outpost, said officials from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. Emirati astronauts Sultan al-Neyadi and […]
Here is another head’s up warning about incoming space hardware – but this saga has a bit of an interplanetary tale to tell. Peel back space history to the 1970’s, a time of Cold War space race histrionics between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 was launched on March […]
InSight on Mars Update: The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Probe (HP3) is ready for action on Monday. Like a mole with a sensitive tail, HP3 pulls a ribbon-shaped cable behind it that’s jam-packed full of temperature sensors. “The mole is now free of its fixation that was protecting it until now from any […]
Over a dozen experiment proposals from scientists around the world have been shortlisted for possible flight onboard China’s future space station. China Daily has reported that 18 ideas are being assessed, with the final result to be detailed in June. According to government plans, China will start piecing together the country’s space station around 2020. […]
It is the combination of commercial activity and use of space resources that creates perception of tension. Some groups have expressed concern over a perceived gap in the law that creates uncertainty. Others have expressed concern that use of space resources might be conducted to benefit only a few companies and spacefaring nations. […]
