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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…
The U.S. agency dedicated to pushing the boundaries of space exploration is finally exploring the barest edges of the modern livestreaming era. From a report: NASA has announced it’s launching a beta for on-demand streaming content through NASA+. Oh, a…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner program, developed for NASA since 2014, has incurred total losses exceeding $1 billion, with an additional $257 million loss announced in the second quarter of 2023. Gizmodo reports: Boeing’s total losses now amount to a stag…
DARPA and NASA’s Joint DRACO Project Technology Will Help Enable Humans to Travel to MarsDENVER — US Defence conglomerate Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO). The project will represent a rapid
The Space Force is interested in DRACO primarily as an option for allowing it to undertake rapid on-orbit maneuvers, but also for potential future missions out to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
July 2023 may go down in history books as an important pivot in the private space race, thanks to the launch of India’s Chandrayaan-3 and now two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between Colorado-based Voyager Space and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as well as the ISRO’s commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), stating that Voyager Space will use Indian rockets and
A design of Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear ReactorThe space agencies of two countries – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will develop a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation by the end of 2023Modi and Biden called for enhanced commercial collaboration between the US and Indian private sectors in the entire value chain