November 25th, 2024
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A Moon-bound lunar lander is being shipped to Cape Canaveral, Florida next month under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas announced it has wrapped up the Blue Ghost’s rigid environmental testing for a projected launch in January of next year. “While we know there will be more challenges […]
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Put yourself in forget me not and space time travel retro-mode: it is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program’s STS-9 mission. During that shuttle flight in 1983, Garriott conducted the first-ever person from space to communicate with […]
Boeing has issued a video detailing the company’s secretive spaceplane, the X-37B. “Boeing-built X-37B Innovates and Breaks New Records” is the name of the video. “The Boeing-built X37B will perform ground-breaking aerobraking maneuvers to take the dynamic spaceplane from one Earth orbit to another while conserving fuel. Partnered with the […]
Blue Origin has completed its 28th New Shepard suborbital mission and its ninth human spaceflight. The November 22 NS-28 flight means that the company has now flown 47 people to space (three people have flown twice). The NS-28 Crew (left to right): Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Emily Calandrelli, J.D. Russell, Hank Wolfond, and Austin Litteral. […]
China has rolled out new details of how the country will attempt a future human Moon mission, targeted for 2030. The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) showcased a new video at a Human Space Symposium. Highlighted by China Central Television (CCTV), the video underscores: production of the Long March-10 carrier rocket, a piloted spacecraft Mengzhou […]
Expandable space structure development has entered a new milestone at Sierra Space, a commercial firm working on their Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat. The LIFE 10 article underwent burst testing on October 29th at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The structure ruptured at the highest pressure yet, 255 psi, and was […]
Flight test six of the SpaceX Starship departed from Starbase, near Brownsville, Texas on November 19, “seeking to expand the envelope on ship and booster capabilities and get closer to bringing reuse of the entire system online,” noted the company, founded by chief rocketeer, Elon Musk. The Super Heavy booster successfully lifted off at the […]
Now in the works is a retro-fire look back in time at a bizarre Cold War caper by the Central Intelligence Agency thanks to a forthcoming, star-studded comedy/drama movie called “Lunik Heist.” Lunik Heist is described as a “a wild, roller-coaster ride, filled with subterfuge and unlikely heroes.” The film is […]
China’s now-orbiting Shenzhou-19 astronauts are moving supplies and equipment into the Tiangong space station, brought to the orbiting facility by the newly docked Tianzhou-8 cargo craft. Weighing about six tons, China’s Tianzhou-8 cargo craft includes supplies for the astronauts, propellant, application experiments and test equipment, with over 880 pounds (400 kilograms) of scientific gear. Roughly […]
A release today of the Department of Defense annual report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) comes one day after a witness-based Congressional hearing on the topic. The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office’s Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena is required by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2022, as amended by the NDAA […]
