August 6th, 2025
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It has been a one-two punch as the Philippine Space Agency had to alarm citizens regarding China-launched rocket debris fell into local waters. This new incident involved the “estimated drop zone” of China’s Long March-12 rocket that was lofted from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in the southern island province of Hainan on Monday. […]
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Things are progressing for Virgin Galactic’s Delta Class suborbital spaceships for hauling payloads and passengers. A Virgin Galactic Holdings earnings overview was held on August 6, providing an update on construction of the new SpaceShip as well as the mother ship carrier aircraft. Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic noted that “Commercial service remains planned […]
It is a hot topic bracketed by cold hard facts: How best to handle Mars samples here on Earth? Yes, the specter of “Andromeda Strain” is alive and well, brought home by the 1969 novel written by Michael Crichton, later turned into a techno-thriller of a movie. China is moving forward on a specialized […]
NASA has officially declared loss of the space agency’s Lunar Trailblazer designed to map lunar water. “Despite extensive efforts, mission operators were unable to establish two-way communications after losing contact with the spacecraft the day following its Feb. 26 launch,” a NASA statement explains. “Without two-way communications,” NASA adds, “the team was unable to fully […]
On August 3, Blue Origin successfully completed its 14th human suborbital spaceflight and the 34th flight for the New Shepard program. Blue Origin’s New Shepard program has now flown 75 people into space, including five who have flown twice. The passengers on New Shepard-34 (NS-34) mission were Arvi Bahal, Gökhan Erdem, Deborah Martorell, Lionel Pitchford, […]
It is THE head-scratching biological question of time and space: the origin of life on Earth. The spontaneous emergence of a protocell prior to Darwinian evolution remains a fundamental open question in physics and chemistry, notes Robert G. Endres of the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College in London. Endres leads the Complex Adaptive […]
China’s Long March 8A launch from the Hainan Commercial Launch Site in Wenchang, Hainan created another worrisome issue for the Philippine Space Agency. The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) confirmed the launch of the rocket, expecting debris leftovers from the launch that were projected to have fallen within identified drop zones roughly 120 nautical miles (NM) […]
A Reason Foundation study calls for shifting the Artemis program to the commercial space industry, canceling unnecessary NASA programs related to the Artemis Space Launch System (SLS), Orion, Exploration Upper Stage, the Mobile Launch Platform-2, and the cis-lunar Gateway project. In its place, argues the Reason Foundation report, use the public-private partnerships that are transporting […]
Crew-11 scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 12:09 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Onboard: NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Russia’s […]
The Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is preparing to launch its eighth mission (OTV-8) from Florida’s Space Coast, with liftoff scheduled no earlier than August 21. This upcoming flight comes after the completion of OTV-7 in March of this year. According to a Boeing statement, OTV-8 will fly with a service module. Doing so […]
