July 29th, 2024
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Boeing reports that the over-the-weekend “hot fire” testing of Starliner thrusters is complete. “The Starliner team completed a docked hot fire test of the spacecraft’s Reaction Control System (RCS) thrusters Saturday afternoon, and monitored its helium system, providing additional data points for the Crew Flight Test’s return to Earth,” Boeing reports. Flight controllers commanded the […]
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A vein-filled slab of rock reconnoitered by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at Jezero Crater was already important evidence of water activity. “But now the team has revealed that it’s the strange spots in between the veins that make this the most important rock yet found in Jezero crater,” explains Mars Guy, also changing his own […]
A 23-page document between Russia and China that spells out details for creating an International Scientific Lunar Station has been ratified by Russia and has now entered into force. As posted on Russia’s official publication of legal acts, the agreement is between Russia’s State Corporation for Space Activities, Roscosmos, and the Chinese National Space Administration. […]
Those samples rocketed from the Moon to Earth in 2020 by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar return mission keep on giving new insights about resource extraction. Researchers from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and scholars from several Chinese universities, discovered ULM-1 (Unknown Lunar Mineral-1), a mineral crystal found to be enriched […]
It takes Olympic-size imagineers to extend and expand the sports envelope into outer space – so enter ThinkOrbital and XTEND Design, an architecture and design company. “The Olympics, reimagined for the cosmos!” – that’s the view from ThinkOrbital, a “picture this” moment in space and time. “Athletes from around the world competing not just in […]
That NASA decision to cancel the VIPER south pole Moon rover continues to stir up lunar exploration advocates. NASA’s call to kill the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project has irked roughly 2,500 people that have now signed an open letter to Congress, requesting lawmakers to “refuse to authorize” the NASA verdict. There […]
Sierra Space is working on expandable space station technology. The group reports that on June 18 the firm’s full-scale structural test passed a seventh key validation milestone – its second full-scale structural test. The “Ultimate Burst Pressure test” was done at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in collaboration with ILC Dover (an […]
Do you believe time travel is possible and if so, how? What is something you don’t know but you would like to understand? What’s the future of gravitational wave astronomy? The answers flow from noted astrophysics guru/Noble Prize winner, Kip Thorne – yes, he was the science advisor for “Interstellar” the memorable science fiction epic. […]
Space for Humanity hosted the D.C. premiere of “FORTITUDE: Forging The Trillion Dollar Space Economy” at the Library of Congress – a special screening of Torsten Hoffman’s documentary. The evening featured the film’s director, astronauts, industry leaders, and government voices. Go to: https://youtu.be/xV65tyP2Ja8?si=x92ukc0SZ0qNPonN Also, go to the official website at: https://www.fortitudemovie.com/
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing a slate of science duties. Lauren Edgar, a planetary geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center in Flagstaff, Arizona, reports that the robot wrapped up activities at Fairview Dome. Curiosity has started heading south towards its next potential drill location in the Upper Gediz Vallis ridge […]
