November 2nd, 2018
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now wrapping up Sol 2218 tasks. Sol 2217 marked a return to contact science activities after a Curiosity memory anomaly complicated rover activities back on Sol 2172. Poised to measure Reports Lucy Thompson, a planetary geologist from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, when the anomaly occurred, […]
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has just begun Sol 2217 science activities. Melissa Rice, a planetary geologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, reports that the full Curiosity science team is back in swing of things following the rover’s anomaly back on Sol 2172. “It has been over a month since we last looked at […]
Luxembourg has demonstrated a successful five-point approach toward a unique space policy and strategy for space sector growth. How can the U.S. leverage the Luxembourg model to support other countries around the globe? A new report from The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) has concluded that Luxembourg has taken a unique […]
The China-France Oceanographic Satellite (CFOSat) was launched on October 29 by the Long March-2C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gobi Desert. Jointly developed by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, CFOSat will conduct 24-hour observations of global wave […]
Research work is underway to protect a future settlement on Mars from cosmic rays. Artificial magnetic fields can be created through a series of high voltage electric cables arranged in a toroidal geometry around the inhabited environment. These cables are able to generate an external magnetic field of 4/5 Tesla of intensity, enough […]
China’s private launch group, LandSpace , launched the ZhuQue-1 rocket carrying the Weilai-1 (Future-1) satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Gansu Province, northwest China, on 27 October 2018. According to Zhang Changwu (CEO, LandSpace Technology Corporation), the spacecraft failed to achieve orbit due to an issue with the third stage. This was the first […]
If you didn’t have that winning big billion dollar + lottery ticket, here’s another toss of the dice. The new space race isn’t to the Moon, but rather to Mars and the analysts at MyBookie say the smart money is on Elon Musk. In-depth look Analyst & oddsmaker, David Strauss took an in-depth look at […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now in Sol 2213 and its eyes are on the sky reports Lauren Edgar, a planetary geologist at the USGS in Flagstaff, Arizona. A three-sol script has the robot focusing on environmental monitoring, as the robot continues to be on the mend following a memory glitch that’s impacted transmission of […]
The Long Beach Airport in California was the scene, for the first time, Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket was integrated with its 747 carrier aircraft. LauncherOne is carried aloft by a customized 747-400 aircraft dubbed “Cosmic Girl,” modified explicitly for the purpose of serving as a flying launch site. Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit’s system becomes the […]
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio issued on October 20 a visualization using a digital 3D model of the Moon built from global elevation maps and image mosaics by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission. Set to Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune, this visualization uses LRO data to show the stark beauty of evolving light and shadow […]
