October 9th, 2024
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NASA’s CAPSTONE mini-spacecraft recently marked its 100th orbit in the near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). This Moon mission has been awarded by NASA an extension of its mission after operating in its NRHO for 670-plus days. CAPSTONE is now funded until December 2025. CAPSTONE stands for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, a […]
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All those eye-catching, arguably clickbait headlines of bringing home stranded astronauts stuck in space underscores a worrisome reality. The United States is lacking a “go-get-em” capability for in-space rescue. The lessons of Apollo, Skylab and the space shuttle with respect to the rescue of astronauts in space appear to have been forgotten. That memory lapse […]
Blue Origin is set to debuts its second human-rated suborbital tourism vehicle – named RSS Kármán line. An uncrewed verification flight window opens on Monday, October 7 at 8:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. New Shepard (NS-27) will fly 12 payloads—five on the booster and seven inside the crew capsule. The vehicle is designed to enable […]
As nations rocket forward plans to “reboot” the Moon with crews, what that celestial destination needs is real-time monitoring and emergency response. For example, there are high-risk situations in remote areas like the lunar south pole – the currently preferred place for planting long-term expeditions. A team of international scientists wants to make lunar exploration […]
If you are wondering where is the best location to spot an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), well it’s a roll of the dice. But place your chips on several cities, according to BetUS, an online sports betting group. When and where you most likely can have UFO run ins taps years of data accumulated by […]
The American Foreign Policy Council Space Policy Initiative co-directors have designed a series of workshops to examine near-term scenarios that could have a significant psychological impact on public perceptions of space, and thus on resourcing and policy. The report, REACTING TO MAJOR SPACE EVENTS ON THE MOON AND IN CISLUNAR SPACE —After Action Report— asks […]
Crew members of China’s Shenzhou-18 mission are now wrapping up their stay on the country’s space station. The trio of space travelers slated to return to Earth later this month. Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu were sent to the orbital outpost on April 25 for a six-month assignment. Crew member and commander Ye […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale crater continues onward in its wheeled survey of its surroundings. Amelie Roberts, a Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London, reports that the robot is navigating rugged, unforgiving Martian terrain. Roberts said that this landscape challenge was recently underscored by Curiosity’s recent attempt to reach the “Sheep Creek” target. “We […]
China has strutted out its Moon-landing spacesuit, unveiling its design in a ceremony Saturday in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. A technician put the suit through its paces, showcasing various movements and gestures, including climbing the rungs of a ladder. The Feitian EVA suit is tagged as China’s first indigenous spacesuit. Feitian means “flying in the […]
The increased amount of space hardware flying through cislunar space and at the moon is being viewed as a space debris worry. Even one fragmentation event can have calamitous and far-reaching consequences, which drives the need for appropriate debris characterization tools. That’s the view of two university researchers who caution that space domain awareness […]
