June 5th, 2024
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Early in the morning of June 2 (6:23 AM, Beijing Time), Chang’e-6 successfully landed on the southern mare plain of the Apollo basin interior, in the northeast interior of the far side South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin. During the following two days, the lander undertook surface operations, including sampling (drilling and scooping), depositing and sealing the […]
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Last March a high-speed cylindrical object weighing nearly two pounds shot through the roof of a Naples, Florida homeowner, smashing through a ceiling and punching through a floor. NASA later confirmed that the object was an item from the International Space Station – a small leftover from a discarded, multi-ton pallet let loose some three […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved a license authorization for SpaceX Starship Flight 4. “SpaceX met all safety and other licensing requirements for this test flight,” explains an FAA statement. SpaceX has been eying a June 6 liftoff of the next Starship test flight. For SpaceX details regarding the test flight, go to: https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-4 […]
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander mission has lobbed far side snag and stash specimens into orbit around the Moon. The lander served as a temporary “launching pad.” A 3,000-newton engine worked for about six minutes, pushing the ascender with its cache of lunar materials into lunar orbit. If all continues on schedule, Chang’e-6’s ascender craft will […]
NOTE: According to a source that contacted me regarding this article: “We have learned from some well-informed feedback and reminders that there was no “Project” Moon Dust. It was simply “Moon Dust”. I apologize for the error in the Government Attic description. If you were so inclined, you could amend your article accordingly to remove the […]
In a “groundbreaking” mission, China’s Chang’e-6 Moon lander wrapped up two days of drilling and scooping at its far side lunar landing spot. The 8.35-metric-ton, multi-pronged Chang’e-6 mission involves an orbiter, a returner, a lander, and an ascender, built by the Beijing-based China Academy of Space Technology, a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology […]
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar mission has carried out a successful far side touchdown and is already busily gathering specimens for send-off to Earth. The first batch of data has been relayed from the Chang’e-6 lander-ascender combination following its arrival on Sunday morning (Beijing Time). The landing was aided by China’s newly positioned Queqiao-2 relay satellite […]
Attention air travelers. After all that huffing and puffing, trying to get to the terminal departure gate on time, here’s another worry. With your legs finally airworthy, up and tightly locked in the up position, make sure you’re at a window seat. That way you can keep an eye out for incoming space junk that […]
A detailed look at both orbital and seismological data gathered at Mars point to a clear increase in the number of dust avalanches around the epicenters of two “Marsquakes.” The seismic events were recorded during the NASA InSight lander mission to the Red Planet that performed duties at Elysium Planitia from May 2018 to the […]
Eye-patches on! Practice your best “grrr.” Plop down pieces of eight, doubloons and cue “Captain” Jack Sparrow! It’s a wait-a-moment meeting. Get ready for the First Annual Space Piracy Conference, set for early next year. The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Policy, and Governance (CSCPG) plans a two-day, invite only symposium that brings […]
