April 13th, 2024
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California is home base for building pioneering spacecraft that have probed every planet in our solar system, including the Sun. Federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech, JPL and its cadre of engineers and scientists are being led by Laurie Leshin, the first woman to serve as JPL […]
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Friday the Queqiao-2 completed a communication test on April 6, linking up with the already on the Moon Chang’e-4 far side lander/rover hardware. Additionally, the new relay spacecraft communicated with the Chang’e-6 lunar probe still here on Earth and expected to be launched next month. This […]
In what may be judged as a bizarre and twisted case of “assault and battery,” a high-speed cylindrical object weighing nearly two pounds hit the roof of Alejandro Otero’s home last month in Naples, Florida, smashing through a ceiling and punching through a floor. There is speculative finger-pointing going on as to origin of the […]
There’s a new space startup under the Sun. And what Reflect Orbital wants to do is cast some of that sunshine to customers. The group’s ambitions have been in the dark for a bit, but the leader of the idea has been posting on X some tantalizing updates. They are developing a constellation of specialized […]
Join SpaceX top rocketeer, Elon Musk, in his quest to make life multiplanetary…and why. “The goal of SpaceX is to build the technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary. This is the first time in the 4-billion-year history of Earth that it’s possible to realize that goal and protect the light of consciousness,” a SpaceX […]
A new video captures the flight to the lunar south pole region of Odysseus, the commercial Intuitive Machines Moon lander. Launched on February 15, 2024, this NASA-backed IM-1 lander via the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative touched down on February 22 near the Malapert-A crater area 190 miles (300 kilometers) from the […]
A cooperative step in planting China’s international lunar research stations on the Moon now includes China and Thailand. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Thai Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation on Friday inked memorandums of understanding on Friday to carry out cooperation on space exploration, especially in lunar research. China […]
To date, it appears that mum’s the word when trying to pick up communiqués from populations of other star folk. But is it possible that artificial intelligence may be to blame? That’s at the heart of a research paper by Michael Garrett, Director of the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics in Manchester, England. He […]
Electroencephalogram testing is being carried out by China’s Shenzhou-17 space station. The EEG work is focused on the human brain in space and designed to gauge cognitive function and work efficiency of crew members on long stays in Earth orbit. According to China Central Television (CCTV) the EEG tests are planned to be carried out […]
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has approved the preliminary design of the country’s orbital station, planned to be deployed in the 2027-2032 time period. The orbiting facility features an open modular architecture, involving a node module with six docking ports to which other modules are connected. Those segments can be removed from orbit and replaced. […]
