March 30th, 2018
Author: 
The latest reentry forecast for the plunge of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab has been provided by the European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany. The current estimated reentry window runs from the night of March 31 to the late evening of April 1 (in UTC time), noting this is highly variable. Noticeable change […]
Posted in 
Nobody likes to have their life adrift. But on Venus, the clouds of that hellish world could be a niche for extraterrestrial microbial life. An international team of researchers led by planetary scientist Sanjay Limaye of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center lays out a case that the hunt for life […]
The Commercial Space Race is About to Accelerate View an interactive live, streaming panel discussion: Lift Off the Page: The Commercial Space Race on Monday, April 9, at 7 p.m. (EDT), presented by the Embry–Riddle Alumni Association. Tourists, space mining Space experts predict that within the next year, tourists will travel into space and companies […]
Next week, SpaceX is scheduled to launch the 14th Commercial Resupply Services flight to the International Space Station (ISS) via the Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket. On board this flight will be a number of payloads, including the Multi-use Variable-gravity Platform, or MVP for short. MVP, with its ability to provide fractional artificial […]
The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission is undergoing a series of tests for the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission. ESA’s ExoMars is due for launch in July 2020, with arrival at Mars in March 2021. Inflation factor The latest test was conducted in sub-zero conditions in Kiruna, Sweden earlier this month. […]
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is just starting to perform Sol 2006 science tasks. “Squarely in the red,” explains Christopher Edwards, a planetary geologist from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, saying the rover in a special spot. Scouting for hematite After the robot completed a drive of nearly 180 (55 meters) drive, “Curiosity found itself sitting […]
China’s Tiangong-1 space lab is headed for an uncontrolled and destructive nose-dive into Earth’s atmosphere. Latest reentry forecast provided by ESA’s Space Debris Office, in Darmstadt, Germany, updated March 27, 2018: The current estimated reentry window runs from the morning of March 31 to the early morning of April 2 (in UTC time), with ESA’s […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is now performing Sol 2005 duties. Reports Abigail Fraeman, a planetary geologist at NASA/JPL in Pasadena, California: A weekend drive stopped after just a few meters due to a high current warning from Curiosity’s right middle wheel. “We were able to assess all of the drive data this morning and […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has released a new report: Protecting & Preserving Apollo Program Lunar Landing Sites & Artifacts. Recommendations — The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of State, and other interested Departments and Agencies, with guidance from the National Space Council, should strategically look for opportunities […]
The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) is making available a reentry dashboard specific to the upcoming fall of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab. Tiangong-1 is now currently predicted to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere around April 1st, plus or minus 2 Days. This prediction was performed […]
