April 30th, 2018
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In a recent China Central Television (CCTV) interview with Wang Liheng, a senior consultant of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, he discussed building a scientific research base on the moon. “Experts propose that after the three steps for the lunar probe program and the […]
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President trump held a rally in Michigan on April 28…during which he made note of the U.S. space program and private space initiatives. “We inherit the legacy of the great Americans who constructed the railroads, tamed the frontiers, built the highways, carved out the panama canal, and put a man on the face of the […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has just started Sol 2036 operations. “Down the ridge she comes,” reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. Curiosity continues to pick her way downhill off the “Vera Rubin Ridge” and onto the Murray formation rocks below. “This weekend’s plan only covers two sols,” Minitti notes, […]
Launch preparations are underway for New Shepard’s 8th test flight, with Blue Origin currently targeting Sunday April 29 and a launch window opening up at 8:30am CDT. According to the rocket firm, led by Jeff Bezos, the flight will be available on Livestream. What’s up? As posted by Blue Origin, New […]
As part of China’s Space Day celebrations, a new video is making the rounds, prepared by the China National Space Administration. To take a look at this video in Chinese, posted by China News Service, and dedicated to Space Day 2018, go to: http://videoclips.chinanews.com/oss/onair/zxw/szuser/1096f9f47fac452a9a0a5aaed35df804_34.mp4 The video includes visuals of a reusable […]
NASA’s Mars rover has just started Sol 2034 science duties. The robot is descending Vera Rubin Ridge reports Mark Salvatore, a planetary geologist at the University of Michigan in Dearborn. “Curiosity is continuing her march to the north and west, descending through the stratigraphic layers exposed in Vera Rubin Ridge and working her way back […]
The Policy and Science of Rocket Emissions is a new space policy paper from The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy. Authors Martin Ross and James Vedda consider the effects of rocket emissions in the atmosphere—what is known, and what is not. “Rocket emissions inherently impact the stratosphere in a way that no […]
Commentary by William B. Miller, Jr., M.D. It was the greatest car ad ever conceived. A red Tesla Roadster was launched into space with a jaunty spaceman mannequin at the wheel. As it streaks around our solar system at speeds of seven miles per second, its dashboard screen reads a playful, ‘Don’t panic’. Initial press […]
There are new partnerships afoot that make the commercial lunar economy a potential actuality. A newly-inked collaboration agreement is geared to commercial Moon missions. In this instance, the European Space Agency partnered with the U.K.’s Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) group and the Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall, England. Goonhilly is an independent, […]
A new Curiosity traverse map through Sol 2030 has been issued. The map shows the route driven by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity through the 2030 Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission on Mars (April 23, 2018). The robot has just begun Sol 2032 science duties. Numbering of the dots along the line […]
