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SonicSpike shares a report from NASA: In 2023, NASA is sending a technology demonstration known as the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal (ILLUMA-T) to the space station. Together, ILLUMA-T and the Laser Communications Re…
In today’s newsletter: The country’s lunar landing was a triumph. This is how it quietly built a successful mission• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Last week India became the fourth ever country to land a spacecraft on…
Astronauts from US, Denmark, Japan and Russia will reach ISS on Sunday and say ‘we’re a united team with a common mission’Four astronauts from four countries rocketed toward the International Space Station on Saturday.They should reach the orbiting lab…
India has raised its spacefaring profile and will now be seen as low-cost provider for missions possibleFor all the risks, for all that was riding on a successful landing, the descent to the moon’s surface was remarkably uneventful, if not exactly stre…
Many countries – and companies – are starting or renewing their space programs, competing to reach the Moon’s South Pole, where there might be ice and highly valuable resources.
Washington: According to a recent warning from US counterintelligence officials, Chinese and Russian spy agencies are focusing on private US-based space enterprises in an effort to obtain cutting-edge technologies while impeding American advancements, Voice of America (VOA) reported.The two-page advisory, which was released by the FBI, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and the
Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday. The country plans to launch further lunar missions, including exploring the possibility of a joint Russian-Chinese crewed mission and even a lunar base. Major powers such as the US, China, and India aim to discover more about the moon, its water, and minerals such as helium-3 and rare earth metals, which are used in
‘Heartbeat’ signal from probe, now 12bn miles away, picked up after flight control mistakenly pointed its antenna away from EarthEfforts to re-establish contact with Nasa’s Voyager 2 probe have received a boost after the space agency detected a “heartb…
Nasa engineers hope to re-establish contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft after sending a faulty command that severed communications with the far-flung probe. From a report: The spacecraft is one of a pair that launched in 1977 to capture images of Jup…
A routine sequence of commands has triggered a 2-degree change in Voyager 2’s antenna orientation, preventing the iconic spacecraft from receiving commands or transmitting data back to Earth, NASA announced earlier today. Mission controllers transmitte…