January 6th, 2018
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has just concluded Sol 1926 science operations. The robot is investigating “layers of fun!” That’s the word from Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. Curiosity color imagery taken during Sols 1925-1926 shows in greater detail the numerous layers and color variations that kept the rover at […]
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Have trace fossils been found on Mars? In browsing the first new batch of 2018 Curiosity Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) photos snagged from Sols 1922 and 1923, researcher Barry DiGregorio speculates whether or not the Red Planet prowler has found trace fossils on Mars. DiGregorio is a research fellow for the Buckingham Centre for […]
Now in Sol 1925, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is “off to the races,” explains Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. “Curiosity’s hard work over the holiday break paid off, giving the science team a rich collection of new data to assess and a new workspace to explore,” Minitti reports. “The […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has moved into 2018 science operations. The robot is busy at work in Sol 1924 on Vera Rubin Ridge, relaying back to Earth new sets of images.
There are a number of challenges related to registration of space objects and transparency of global space activities – and the United Nations’ Register of Space Objects is in need of an overhaul suggests an international team of researchers. The paper – “Critical issues related to registration of space objects and transparency of space activities” […]
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most expensive and complex telescope ever built in the history of humankind. Now estimated to cost nearly $9 billion and delayed for sendoff until sometime in 2019, this promising engine of discovery will be 100 times more powerful in its Cosmos-peering skills than the iconic Hubble […]
Held on December 1-2, the Reagan National Defense Forum included a panel discussion titled: Space Wars – Are we Prepared for the Next Domain of Warfare? Discussion was geared to evaluate whether the U.S. has the strategy, capacity, and know-how to prevail in space. This gathering was held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library […]
I am very excited to learn that my book – Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet – will be available in Chinese and published there in July of 2018. The volume has already been translated into Portuguese, Greek, German, Japanese, Italian and Dutch. International outreach Here are some links for our […]
The development of commercial suborbital space vehicles could lead eventually to businesses such as commercial hypersonic point-to-point air travel and low-cost launches to low Earth orbit. But could this prospect be stymied by military applications of this technology? RAND researchers offer an overview of their key findings on hypersonic missiles — a new class of […]
There is increasing interest in hurling people and cargo around the Earth, arriving at any location on the planet within 30 to 45 minutes. For one, that’s just enough time to open that impenetrable package of peanuts typically dispensed on airliners today. Grand dreams Recently, SpaceX’s Elon Musk served up a good helping […]
