April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
...galaxy M61 dominates this image, framed by its winding spiral arms threaded with dark tendrils of dust. As well as the usual bright bands... of stars, the spiral arms of M61 are studded with ruby-red patches of light. Tell...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
...on the lunar surface, while Canada is building a robot arm. In return, European, Japanese and Canadian astronauts will be ... landing in rugged and largely unknown terrain A robotic arm and drill for retrieving approximately two-kilogram samples and ...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
...John McCain who serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. “For decades, the U.S. military has assumed that ...a mission to Mars, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the...
12 December 2017
Trump signs Space Policy Directive 1
... Planet with an interim project that included the controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). Like the ill-fated programmes commissioned before it, ARM too was disbanded when Trump became President. Perhaps poignantly, the signing of the...
03 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx officially arrives at Bennu today
... asteroid itself, and exactly whereabouts OSIRIS-REx’s extendable sampling arm will pluck this material from will be decided by the survey. ...During the sampling procedure, the arm will release a burst of nitrogen gas as it ...
31 July 2025
Space Station Crew-11 astronauts set for launch
... in a statement: “Monday’s test auto-aborted at T-57 seconds due to an error with the transporter erector’s cradle arm position indication. The arm functioned correctly and teams are reviewing the data.” During Wednesday’s pre-launch media briefing...
