July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... payloads and the increasing frequency of ISS maintenance, use of Canadian robots has gone up and up Wearing a Canadian Olympic hockey sweater, MacLean stood at his CAPCOM console for this very Canadian moment! Hearing the music...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... seems to have been pioneered in 1990 by the American shuttle-launched Prowler, since imitated by the Russian Luch Olymp (2014). In conclusion, it is not clear if the actual nature of military space has changed much since the opening...
19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
... by the gas giant at the maximum rate possible. "We estimate that this 'ring rain' drains the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool from Saturn's rings in half an hour,” said Dr O'Donoghue, who works at NASA's Goddard Space...
11 June 2021
China unveils new Mars images, and prepares to launch first astronauts to space station
... can be clearly seen, a fabric Chinese national flag and a monochromic drawing of mascots of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games are also noticeable in the pictures. As of Friday, Zhurong has been working on the...
