September 25th, 2025
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China’s Shenzhou-20 astronauts have wrapped up their 4th series of extravehicular activities, spacewalking outside the country’s Tiangong space station. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie worked for roughly six hours in space, completing a set of assigned tasks and aided by Chen Dong inside the facility, along with […]
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NordSpace’s inaugural flight from the Atlantic Spaceport Complex has been complex and perplexing. Repeat launch attempts have been thwarted to fly the group’s pathfinder mission, called “Getting Screeched In”, a demonstration flight of the fully Canadian-made sub-orbital rocket – Taiga. As Canada’s first commercial spaceport, the Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX) can support equatorial to polar […]
An international team of researchers from China, along with collaborators from the University of Hawaii, have used China’s Chang’e-6 lunar lander data to probe water distribution on Moon. The research highlights the roles of solar wind and impact-driven gardening in the formation and evolution of lunar surface water. Lander plume Analyzing data from the Chang’e-6 […]
They came from outer space – 75 mice, cell cultures, microorganisms, plant seeds, and other items. A Russian biological research satellite toting more than 30 experiments landed September 19 in the steppes of the Orenburg region after spending 30 days in Earth orbit. Why was this mission important for future human space travel? For details, […]
Virgin Galactic and Purdue University announced today a groundbreaking partnership to send an all-Boilermaker crew on a suborbital research flight, the first of its kind for a U.S. university. The mission, Purdue 1, is slated for launch in 2027 and will include Purdue engineering professor Steven Collicott and distinguished graduate student(s) and alumni who will […]
Two Mars-bound spacecraft for NASA have been delivered to the Kennedy Space Center for launch, scheduled to occur no earlier than this fall on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. The University of California’s Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory’s ESCAPADE mission probes were built, tested and integrated by Rocket Lab, as part of NASA’s Small Innovative Missions […]
Yet another wait-a-minute moment for NASA’s return to the Moon with humans program. As it has repeatedly warned, panel members of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) – a group that reports to NASA and the U.S. Congress – have once again red-flagged the SpaceX Starship’s development tied to the space agency’s needs to return […]
New research is being called the first detailed examination of sintering “real” lunar regolith. Used in the work were precious Moon samples returned to Earth by Apollo 11, Apollo 15 and Apollo 16 moonwalkers. There is growing interest in establishing a permanently crewed base on the Moon. Lunar regolith sintering has gained significant attention as […]
Declared as a new program milestone, the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now integrated with the Northrop Grumman Mission Robotics Vehicle (MRV) spacecraft bus. This robotic spacecraft is designed to extend and upgrade satellites already in orbit. The RSGS program is the result of over 20 years of research and development at […]
It’s alive! NASA has picked Blue Origin to deliver the VIPER rover to the Moon’s south pole. The contentious NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project has gone through a paywall of issues in the past. Following a comprehensive internal review, NASA announced on July 17th, 2024 its intent to discontinue development of the […]
