April 11th, 2022
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The next step in China’s building of its space station arrived Monday at the launch site in the southern island province of Hainan. China’s Long March-7 Y5 rocket will loft the automated Tianzhou-4 cargo craft to the country’s orbiting facility. The rocket, alongside the Tianzhou-4 cargo craft, is now at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, […]
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Russia’s return to the Moon is the country’s Luna-25 mission. The purpose of the project is to send an automatic probe for research in the region of the south pole of the Moon. It is planned that the landing craft will touch down north of the Boguslavsky crater. A “reserve area” for the landing craft […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3439 duties. “We successfully drove further down off of the “Greenheugh pediment” as we head toward smoother driving pathways downhill,” reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland. “However, the chaotic jumble of terrain we encountered in the final few […]
An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events – large bright meteors also known as bolides. This action results from collaboration between NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) and the U.S. Space Force to continue […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3437 duties. The robot recently drove to a new workspace, one that was partially explored previously on Sol 3417, reports Ashley Stroupe, a mission operations engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Curiosity activities included placing the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) on a […]
The innovative SpinLaunch company has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA. Through this partnership, SpinLaunch will develop, integrate, and fly a NASA payload on the company’s Suborbital Accelerator Launch System to provide information to NASA for potential future commercial launch opportunities. The Space Act Agreement is part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program. SpinLaunch will […]
These photos were acquired on April 3, 2022 (Sol 398 of the Perseverance rover mission) – the date of the NASA helicopter’s 24th flight. The Ingenuity Mars rotorcraft acquired these images using its navigation camera. This camera is mounted in the helicopter’s fuselage and pointed directly downward to track the ground during flight. On this […]
Given the tensions between Russia and the West due to heavy sanctioning sparked by the Ukrainian conflict, Russian space cooperation with China may be stepped up. Dmitry Rogozin, director general of Roscosmos, underscored that prospect during his appearance on several China television outlets. Rogozin told China Global Television Network (CGTN) and China Central Television […]
China’s Shenzhou-13 astronauts — Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu — are preparing for their mid-April return to Earth. The crew arrived in the core module of the in-construction Tiangong station on October 16, embarking on their six-month journey – the longest-ever duration in the country’s human spaceflight program. Upcoming launches Six launches […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3428 duties. “Unfortunately, our weekend drive stalled, so this morning we found ourselves still at Friday’s workspace,” reports Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, a planetary geologist at University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. “Fortunately, it was an understood issue… and this was a good place […]
