Tag Archives: Exploration

SYDNEY — The Exploration Company, a European startup developing a cargo spacecraft, is still studying what happened in the final phases of a test flight three months ago that resulted in the loss of the spacecraft. The company launched Mission Possible, a test of a reentry capsule, on SpaceX’s Transporter-14 mission in June. The 1,600-kilogram spacecraft survived reentry, but contact …

Launched as part of a mission to study the outer planets, Voyager 1 has now traversed a distance so vast that light itself—the fastest thing in the universe—would take 24 hours to cover it. The spacecraft has exceeded all expectations in both duration and distance, becoming a symbol of human persistence in exploring the cosmos. NASA’s engineers had originally intended …

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The X-37B spaceplane’s eighth mission launches on August 21, testing crucial technologies for the Space Force. 🔍 Laser communications experiments aim to enhance secure and efficient satellite operations in low-Earth orbit. 💡 A quantum inertial sensor will be tested as a potential alternative to GPS, offering resistance to signal disruptions. 💰 Congress allocated $1 billion to …

It might sound hard to believe, but NASA’s exoplanet count just reached 6,000 — and that’s with only about 30 years of hunting worlds beyond our solar system. In fact, only three years ago, that figure was at 5,000. At least at face value, the rate of discovery appears to be exponential — which is good, because, theoretically, there should …

WASHINGTON — NASA’s acting administrator said he was “angry” after a predecessor told Congress the agency was behind China in sending astronauts to the moon. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has also served as NASA’s acting administrator for nearly two months, used an internal NASA town hall Sept. 4 to emphasize the agency’s exploration program amid criticism that it can’t …

IN A NUTSHELL 🔍 Scientists have linked mysterious fairy circles to potential underground hydrogen reserves. 🌍 These formations appear in regions like Namibia, Brazil, Australia, and Russia, offering clues to sustainable energy sources. 🧪 Research indicates natural hydrogen emissions correlate with these geological formations, highlighting their energy potential. 💡 If proven reliable, fairy circles could revolutionize how energy companies explore …

WASHINGTON — NASA has named Amit Kshatriya as its new associate administrator in a move meant to emphasize the role of exploration at the agency. NASA announced Sept. 3 that its acting administrator, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, appointed Kshatriya to the post, the agency’s top-ranking civil service job. The position had been filled on an acting basis since early this …

The recent passing of retired Navy Capt. Jim Lovell, an astronaut and one of our great American heroes, propelled many of us back to the iconic scenes from the superb retelling of the Apollo 13 movie in 1995. The three of us lived through that fateful mission in 1970, as the astronauts and mission control team dealt with critical issue after …

Ali Abbas AhmadiBBC News, Toronto Canadian Space Agency A computer generated image of what the lunar vehicle could look like on the Moon In a shopping plaza an hour outside Toronto, flanked by a day spa and a shawarma joint, sits a two-storey building with blue tinted windows reflecting the summer sun. It is the modest headquarters of Canadensys Aerospace, …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Forty years ago, in the early hours of September 1, grainy black-and-white images of a metal cylinder appeared on the video feeds in the command center of Knorr, a research vessel searching the Atlantic seafloor for the world’s most famous shipwreck: the Titanic. Members of the four-person watch team, suspecting the object might be a sunken …