22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
... and only describes it as the crew’s “extended stay” at the ISS. At the National Space Council meeting, its chair, US Vice President Mike Pence, quizzed the two astronauts about their forthcoming adventure. “It’s going to be a great inspiration...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... it’s a below-average solar cycle, doesn’t mean there is no risk of extreme space weather,” says Doug Biesecker, panel co-chair and solar physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colorado. “The Sun’s impact on our...
27 November 2020
Russia's Energia says ISS is close to ruin, nation should build its own space station instead
... reported by Scientific Russia on their website. Among the participants were President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and chair of the meeting, Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev, former Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
... over-exploited and under-managed, to the detriment of everyone,” said John Auburn, Astroscale's UK managing director and Co-Chair of the UKspace In-orbit services and manufacturing (IOSM) working group. Space junk is a big problem. Since the...
