May 29th, 2026
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Following a space station handover ceremony, China’s Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew returned to Earth on Friday (Beijing Time, parachuting into the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Shenzhou-21 crew spent seven months in space, setting a new record for the longest in-orbit stay by a Chinese astronaut crew. Shenzhou-21 astronauts Zhang […]
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The incident took place at roughly 9 p.m. Eastern Times. The explosion happened as the New Glenn’s seven BE-4 first-stage engines ignited for an on-the-pad test. The lost launcher was slated to support an Amazon Leo mission next week. From NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman: “NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at […]
A new report has reviewed the strategic and security implications of placing mass driver technology on the moon. Mass drivers are inherently dual use, the report states, not only for helping create American economic prowess in space, but being large electrically-driven cannons, it’s infrastructure that can flex U.S. military muscle on the moon. The special […]
Two young South Asian women are set to carry out dedicated research on menstruation in space. Manju Bangalore and Priya Abiram are to fly aboard a 2027 suborbital flight via a Virgin Galactic space plane, the research tagged as Operation Period-01 (OP-01). The duo will delve into pioneering research that will help expand reproductive health […]
A few days prior to NASA’s update on its Moon Base plans, China is shifting gears in its own humans on the lunar surface outing. China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe activities with the country’s human spaceflight program. Zhang Jingbo, spokesman for the […]
The American Foreign Policy Council has released a report, Strategic Implications of Lunar Mass Drivers as a Dual-use Technology. “The economic advantages of mass drivers are inseparable from their security implications, the report notes. “As high throughput launch systems, they are inherently dual use. Mass drivers are in fact, just large electrically driven cannons.” […]
In a statement from Blue Origin, “lunar permanence is only possible with recurring access to the Moon, and it starts this year. Proud to support NASA Moon Base at the lunar South Pole with our Blue Moon MK1 vehicles delivering high-cadence, low-cost access—MK1-101 Endurance (Moon Base 1), followed by MK1-102 VIPER, and two additional MK1 […]
NASA provided today a contract-packed update on the space agency’s Moon Base strategy. The base is to serve as a lunar habitat for long duration exploration and science. Moon Base is NASA’s lunar exploration and infrastructure initiative designed to enable sustained human presence and expanded scientific and commercial activity at the lunar South Pole. As […]
China successfully launched its Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship on May 24 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China atop a Long March-2F Y23 carrier rocket. A fast, automated rendezvous and docking mode of roughly 3.5 hours after launch permitted the Shenzhou-23 to attach to the radial port of the Tianhe core module. An upgraded […]
The Atacama Pontifical Catholic University of Chile’s (UC) Alto Patache Station in has served as the base of operations for testing a Mars exploration device – one that uses no wheels or fuel. It’s powered by wind energy. The Tumbleweed Mars team is an international project working on a lightweight prototype driven by wind energy. […]
