January 25th, 2014
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Looks like China’s lunar rover, Yutu (Jade Rabbit), may have stubbed its lucky foot. China’s Xinhua news agency said the Moon rover “has experienced a mechanical control abnormality, and scientists are organizing repairs.” Not clear how serious the abnormality, but the news agency said it happened due to “complicated lunar surface environment,” citing the State […]
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Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announces that it has confirmed that the first orbital flight of its Dream Chaser Space System will occur on November 1, 2016. Dream Chaser will be brought to orbit on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that is being built in Decatur, Alabama and will launch from Cape Canaveral, […]
Mini-satellites may become “space cops” to help control traffic in space. If so, the idea could help avoid collisions in space of satellites and the creation of space debris. The work is underway by a team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) experts. The Calif.-based scientists used a series of six images over a 60-hour […]
It’s called Project Moon Dust – intended to inspire and educate the next generation of space travel hopefuls. Behind the effort is Zybek Advanced Products, founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1996. The group has established a project funding effort for a Lunar Simulant Educational package. If the project is successfully funded on Kickstarter, 25% of […]
It’s a bit of a detective story. NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover imagery shows a rock materializing in a spot where it wasn’t seen in earlier imagery. How’d it get there? Mars Exploration Rover (MER) scientists have dubbed the object “Pinnacle Island.” One view is that the robot kicked up the object during its wheeling around […]
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Early imagery and data from China’s Chang’e 3 lander and Yutu Moon rover. Photo 1: The ring-like image of the surrounding environment of the landing site pictured by the lander’s panoramic camera. The wheel tracks of the Yutu rover can be …seen in the top of the image. There are also several craters […]
