August 7th, 2024
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A water-based, nuclear-enabled and commercially-invested vision of future operations on the Moon. Lockheed Martin, a big league aerospace industry firm, has issued a visionary look at the building blocks of lunar infrastructure. “By 2044, the Moon buzzes with international research and commercial infrastructure, transforming its barren surface into a livable ecosystem,” according to Lockheed Martin. […]
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On Mars, it’s a wait-a-minute conundrum. Question: Has life been found on Mars? The answer: Well, maybe…maybe not. Clear as mud. NASA’s Perseverance rover is busily scouting about Jezero Crater on the Red Planet. Indeed, the Mars machinery is doing its assigned job with a key objective that’s fine-tuned for astrobiology, including caching samples that […]
Pressure is mounting. Flight controllers are putting the squeeze on to ring out science from a spacecraft called Juice – the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Later this month, that probe will zip by the Moon and pass within the altitude of satellites in geostationary and medium-Earth orbits. For a select set of viewers with powerful […]
One of over 20 payloads ready to set sail to the International Space Station (ISS) is an ultra-high-resolution, single-sensor camera. “Big Sky” is developed by Sphere Entertainment. The captured content is an initiative of the group that is providing next-generation entertainment in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first Sphere venue opened in Las Vegas in September […]
The emergence of private space facilities circling Earth has been boosted by the promise of a just-announced commercial microgravity research and development platform. This week, Vast announced a partnership with U.S. payload provider Redwire and Yuri, a biotech research group headquartered in Germany. The Haven-1 lab/platform is projected for launch no earlier than the second […]
There are continual, creaky reminders that the International Space Station is showing its age. Hissy-fit pressure leaks in the Russian segment. Loss of attitude control on two separate occasions in 2021. Toss in close encounters of the space debris kind having the huge, human-occupied facility performing duck and dodge maneuvers. Transition To remain safe and […]
What does a parking lot in Altadena, California have to do with the Moon? First of all, that area is in front of Honeybee Robotics. Secondly, a sky-high test structure was recently erected to spotlight the group’s LUNARSABER, thankfully the truncated acronym for “Lunar Utility Navigation with Advanced Remote Sensing and Autonomous Beaming for Energy […]
That mysterious Chinese space plane has been newly caught on camera by a satellite watcher that has snagged new imagery of the high-flying robotic vehicle. China’s space plane, now circling Earth on its third flight, was lobbed into orbit on December 14, 2023 by a Long March 2F rocket. Space watcher veteran, Felix Schöfbänker in […]
Blue Ghost, mission one, is now being prepared for launch to the Moon later this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Built by Firefly, a private company in Cedar Park, Texas, Blue Ghost is being readied for final, pre-launch, environmental testing. “We’re still on track for a fourth quarter launch,” Risa […]
That recent tough call by NASA to cancel the space agency’s VIPER south pole Moon rover mission continues to stir up lunar exploration supporters. NASA’s pronouncement on July 17 to kill the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project has irked several thousand (4,000+ signatures and counting) advocates for the undertaking, with people signing an […]
