January 1st, 2025
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Talk about ring in the New Year! Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on December 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) fell from the sky, reportedly “red-hot” and crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county […]
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The China Manned Space Agency on Monday released a first-ever progress report on the output from the country’s space station. This CMSA report provides an overview of the work accomplished over the past two years. Over those years, China carried out four crewed flights, three cargo resupply missions, and four spacecraft return missions. Five […]
It seems fair to say that this year has arguably been a page-turner in defining and refining interest in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), an aerial off-shoot — rightly or wrongly — of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), of alien-flown flying saucers sprinting through our skies. There have been back-to-back open Congressional hearings and several classified gatherings in […]
China has approved new lunar sample research applications from institutions, permitting them to borrow samples returned by both the country’s Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 missions. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, a total of 8,550.4 milligrams of lunar samples will be lent to 18 researchers from 16 research institutions, such as the China University of Geosciences […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the go for the first launch of the Blue Origin New Glenn mega-booster. Under the FAA Part 450 commercial space launch license they authorized the maiden flight of New Glenn. “The FAA determined Blue Origin met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements. The license allows Blue Origin […]
A team of researchers from Germany, Austria, Poland and Italy are hard at work designing and testing a novel extractor technique for the prospect of using water ice found on the Moon. The LUWEX group’s “downstream” goal is to be able to process kilograms of lunar regolith containing enough water ice to support a purification […]
Technologists in China have the go-ahead to engineer a multi-task Moon robot for use in the country’s Chang’e-8 lunar landing mission, now set for launch around 2028. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) announced today its appointment by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to spearhead an international collaboration project for the […]
New views of water ice resident in polar craters of the Moon have been issued by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The data has been collected by the Russian Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND), an experiment on board NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that was launched back in June […]
Book Review: Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps, and Matter, Edited by Matthew Shindell; The University of Chicago Press; Hardcover/Cloth, 256 pages; $65.00. This is a unique, beautiful, inspiring, and vital volume – a book to help the reader prepare for humankind’s reintroduction to on-location Moon exploration. As noted author Dava Sobel […]
All of the recent sightings of puzzling unidentified aircraft in New Jersey and other states have triggered yet another round of unanswered questions, along with fueling conspiracy theories. For one, the odd objects have sparked a visual public mayday and melee – one that might be mirroring elements of the on-going Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon (UAP) […]
