February 13th, 2022
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According to Bill Gray of Pluto Project software: Corrected identification of object about to hit the Moon – not a SpaceX upper stage. “Short version: back in 2015, I (mis)identified this object as 2015-007B, the second stage of the DSCOVR spacecraft. We now have good evidence that it is actually 2014-065B, the booster for the […]
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China is pressing forward to send over 50 spacecraft into space in 2022. The country plans to launch the Long March-8 Y2 rocket, a two-stage medium-lift rocket between late February and early March this year. Long March-8 will depart the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China’s Hainan Province – the first launch of […]
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired these images using its navigation camera, acquired on Feb. 8, 2022 (Sol 345 of the Perseverance rover mission). This was the date of Ingenuity’s 19th flight.
A soon-to-launch cubesat will be one of the first ever to fly in the unique Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). Advanced Space owns and operates the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission going to the Moon in the early part of 2022. CAPSTONE is a pathfinder mission for NASA’s […]
A center has been established that includes the study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAPs. The Interdisciplinary Research Center for EXtraterrestrial Studies (IFEX) is anchored at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), one of the largest universities in Germany. IFEX focuses on extraterrestrial research projects in the context of science and technology and their innovative application on Earth […]
Russia is ready to reactivate its moon exploration agenda, a former Soviet Union enterprise that ended decades ago. The last in the row of pioneering USSR lunar missions was Luna 24 – lobbing back to Earth in 1976 roughly six ounces of near-side collectibles. The country’s Luna-25 is set to kick-start a sequence of lunar […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now wrapping up Sol 3382 duties. Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, a planetary geologist at the University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, reports the robot is continuing its trek towards the “Greenheugh pediment.” “We passed along this area on our detour to The Prow, and our sedimentologists […]
What goes up…comes down. That’s the case for dozens of just-lofted SpaceX Starlink satellites. SpaceX issued this statement about the situation: On Thursday, February 3 at 1:13 p.m. EST, Falcon 9 launched 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon 9’s second stage deployed […]
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Gale Crater is now performing Sol 3381 duties. Reports Michelle Minitti, a planetary geologist at Framework in Silver Spring, Maryland: “After our adventures further uphill, Curiosity is backing down hill to get to the start of the path she will take up to the “Greenheugh Pediment.” We are still […]
The research team at Dewesoft analyzed data as to which governments, organizations, and companies own the most satellites in our orbit. How many satellites are in space? As noted by the Dewesoft team, there are thousands of satellites in the sky above us at this moment, orbiting Earth. Satellites have many uses for the government, […]
