October 26th, 2014
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Researchers are recovering valuable data by perusing stashed away and nearly forgotten images from 5 decades old NASA Nimbus data tapes and black and white film. The upshot is that they are finding treasures in the pictures. Experts at the Boulder, Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center — part of the Cooperative Institute for Research […]
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has unveiled their new report: The Space Economy at a Glance 2014. This new report provides a statistical overview of the global space sector and its contributions to economic activity. The new edition provides indicators and statistics based on both official and private data, in over forty […]
An advanced Long March-3C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has hurled toward the Moon China’s robotic test vehicle. Launched early Friday (local China time), the spacecraft will fly around the Moon for half a circle and return to Earth in a test of reentry technologies to be used […]
Here’s my new story and update on China’s next robotic trek to the Moon – while technical details are skimpy, this mission should sharpen the country’s lunar sample return program: China Poised to Launch Next Moon Mission on Thursday By Leonard David, Space.com’s Space Insider Columnist October 22, 2014 07:00am ET http://www.space.com/27503-china-moon-mission-launch-thursday.html
China’s new launch complex is the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan province. Construction of that facility began in 2009 and is now completed. It will soon become operational, China’s People’s Daily reported last week. The center is designed to handle next-generation rockets, the lofting of large space station modules – as well as deep […]
Feeble but hanging on. That’s the diagnosis from China regarding the country’s Yutu moon rover. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, the lunar robot has undergone 11 periods of dormancy with its functions “gradually degrading,” said Yu Dengyun, deputy chief designer of China’s lunar probe mission. “Yutu has gone through freezing lunar nights under abnormal […]
A new story from me on China’s space program and potential for international cooperation: http://www.space.com/27440-china-space-station-plans.html
ESA and its Rosetta mission partners are inviting you to suggest a name for the site where lander Philae will touch down on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on November 12. Got a name for the spot that the first soft landing of a human-made object on a comet will occur? The European Space Agency and its Rosetta […]
A new story of mine up on Space.com. I’ve tried to piece together an upcoming China mission – little on official details at the moment: China Readies Moon Mission for Launch Next Week http://www.space.com/27422-china-moon-mission-launch-october.html
The Earth’s own Moon never fails to disappoint. New data made possible by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has identified many young volcanic deposits. A new paper, published in Nature Geoscience, presents 70 topographic anomalies, informally called Irregular Mare Patches, or IMPs. Furthermore, most of these occurrences were previously undocumented. The new discovery […]
