America’s First Successful Moon Landing in 50 Years by Private Robot Spacecraft
On Thursday night, the United States saw the Odysseus lunar lander from Intuitive Machines touchdown close to Malapert A in the moon’s South Pole region. Since the last crewed Apollo mission more than 50 years ago, this was the first…
Debris Mitigation Issues are Highlighted By the Impending Reentry of a European Satellite
Even as organizations strive to slow the creation of orbital debris, the approaching reentry of a defunct European satellite serves as a reminder of the risks posed by currently in-orbit items. After spending over 20 years in space, the European…
NASA Analysis of Asteroid Bennu Sample Suggests Evidence of Life on an Extinct Ocean Planet
An intriguing possibility has been revealed by the recent study of samples from the asteroid Bennu that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back to Earth. These materials could be from a “ancient ocean world,” which could have laid the foundation for…
World Record for Nuclear Fusion Broken in Significant Achievement
British scientists said on Thursday that, in the last trial utilizing the Joint European Torus (JET) machines, they had broken the record for producing fusion energy. The sun produces heat using the same process known as nuclear fusion. Proponents think…
Asteroid like football stadium sized just sped by Earth and will returning in 2032
On Friday, an asteroid the size of a football stadium streaked by Earth; it will return in less than ten years. NASA estimates that the enormous space rock is around 890 feet in size. (That is larger than the Empire…
NASA Selects Astronauts for SpaceX’s Crew-9 ISS Mission
The four astronauts that will travel on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission this summer to the International Space Station have been named by NASA. NASA announced on Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 31) that Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov…
Commercial Space Station Starlab To Launch On Starship
SpaceX’s Starship has been chosen by Starlab Space, the joint venture building the Starlab commercial space station, to launch the station in a single trip. Voyager Space and Airbus Space and Defence joint venture Starlab Space announced on January 31…
NorthStar Satellites Are Launched By Electron In A Recent Recovery Test
In a further test of the company’s plans to recover and eventually reuse Electron boosters, Rocket Lab launched the first four satellites for space situational awareness (SSA) startup NorthStar Earth and Space on January 31. Launched on a mission the…
Space Station Is Reached By Falcon 9’s Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Launch
On January 30, a Northrop Cygnus cargo spacecraft was launched to the International Space Station by a SpaceX Falcon 9 with success. At 12:07 p.m. Eastern, Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida fired…
First of two scheduled back-to-back Falcon 9 Starlink missions is launched by SpaceX
SpaceX is getting ready for a hectic last week of January. As the corporation is ready to launch a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station for the first time, two Starlink flights are scheduled to begin operations….
