May 11th, 2022
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Space journalist Leonard David will provide a presentation on current space exploration activities not only in the U.S. but internationally, and the promise of public space tourism and future trends in the coming years. Registration is required for this online program. Go to this link to register – https://nederland.libcal.com/event/9136402 This Zoom presentation is […]
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A small satellite is en route toward the Moon…via New Zealand. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, otherwise known as CAPSTONE, will support NASA’s Artemis program. As a pathfinder for NASA’s Gateway station, a Moon-orbiting outpost, CAPSTONE’s mission is to help reduce the risk for future spacecraft by validating innovative navigation […]
Colorado has been selected for a planned spaceflight training facility and a “Lab-to-Orbit”™ research campus. Billed as the world’s first space readiness and innovation campus, Star Harbor unveiled today its planned 53-acre mixed-use development campus and training center south of Denver in Lone Tree, Colorado. At its heart will be the Star Harbor Academy that […]
A futuristic technique could enable astronomical imaging far more advanced than any present today to image exoplanets. Stanford scientists have proposed a gravity telescope. The concept proposes positioning a telescope, the Sun, and exoplanet in a line with the Sun in the middle. Doing so, scientists could use the gravitational field of the sun […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3466 tasks. The rover has cleared the “Greenheugh pediment” and the mix of sandy, steep, and rough terrain that challenged its drives up and down it, reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. “However, we are finding that as […]
The next step in China’s space station construction effort has begun. The Tianzhou-4 cargo spacecraft atop a Long March-7 Y5 carrier rocket has been transferred to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan on Saturday morning, announced the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The three-kilometer […]
There is good news eking out of China’s Chang’e-5 lunar samples that were returned to Earth in December 2020. Researchers with Nanjing University report in the scientific journal, Joule, that the lunar sample brought back by China’s Chang’e-5 probe contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuel. According to the […]
China’s Zhurong Mars rover is ready for the upcoming cold season on the Red Planet. In the northern part on Mars, the Zhurong rover is entering winter, with the coldest period expected to come in July. The highest temperature of the spot where Zhurong is located at noon has dropped to 20 degrees Celsius […]
Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are working with NASA and the Department of Energy to design a resilient microgrid electrical system for the Moon. NASA’s plan for a conceptual Artemis lunar base consists of a habitation unit — complete with room for up to four astronauts — as well as the potential […]
China is slated to launch at the end of 2023 a space-based optical observatory flagship telescope. The telescope, during its normal observations, will fly independently in the same orbit as China’s space station but will maintain a large distance apart, according to China’s Xinhua news agency. However, the telescope can dock with China’s space […]
