October 25th, 2018
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ASDReports of Amsterdam, the Netherlands has published a new study on the prospective space mining market. The appraisal — Space Mining Market – Global Forecast to 2025 – reports in a statement that the space mining market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.6% from 2018 to 2025. The […]
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The China Manned Space Agency has released technical specifications of the core module of the country’s future manned space station. Tianhe — or Harmony of Heavens — will have three parts: the connecting section, life-support and control section, and resources section. Details on the Chinese space facility were issued during the Fifth Manned Space […]
A bio-tech company announced today a ‘Seeds-of-Life’ in space initiative by 2020, make human embryo conception feasible by 2021 and human birth by 2024. SpaceLife Origin, based in The Netherlands, has entered in partnerships with universities and leading suppliers from the space technology and medical sector. The group has outlined a step-by-step methodology making use […]
Excitement is building as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 mission reaches a new exploration phase of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. A third rehearsal for the first asteroid touchdown of the spacecraft (TD1-R3) is now underway, being held from October 23-25. Rehearsal aim The aim of this third rehearsal for touchdown is to confirm the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2209 duties. Engineering trouble-shooting continues regarding the robot’s memory that prevents the machine from sending much of gathered science and engineering data. Recapping the rover’s earlier dune exploration, Catherine O’Connell, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick in Canada, reports: As Curiosity […]
National Geographic’s Space Atlas combines updated maps, lavish photographs, and elegant illustrations to chart the solar system, the universe, and beyond. For space enthusiasts, science lovers, and star gazers, here is the newly revised edition of National Geographic’s enduring guide to space, with a new introduction by American hero Buzz Aldrin. In this guided tour […]
Now being assembled at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the Mars 2020 rover, the most complex piece of machinery to ever make a ballistic beeline for the Red Planet. The multi-tasked, hypothesis-driven wheeled robot is set to make landfall in February 2021, but where? Convened last week was an international group grope of sorts that […]
“Space waste is the smog of our universe,” explains Dutch artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde. Studio Roosegaarde, located in Almere, The Netherlands, has initiated a new, two phase large-scale project: Space Waste Lab. Viewing the issue Phase 1 starts with a unique large outdoor Space Waste Lab Performance using LEDs and real-time tracking […]
Now in Sol 2205, word about NASA’s balky Curiosity Mars robot is that rover science is back…well, sort of. Sarah Lamm, a planetary geologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico reports that the rover team is excited that science operations are starting to resume. The last images from the Mars machinery were […]
The use of beamed microwave energy to launch space vehicles off the surface of Earth is getting a fresh look. Penn State College of Engineering has been awarded funds to develop and use a facility over three years to study the concept. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is backing the work. Two […]
