03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... test target, a 740 kilogram satellite launched by India two months earlier for the purpose of the exercise, sat in an orbit at 300 kilometres, said the country’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). This distance is below...
19 July 2019
The day humanity walked on the Moon
... world for the first time. This historic event captivated millions across the globe as people everywhere sat glued to their television screens in awe of an unfolding adventure that seemed so improbable, many to this day still believe...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... space agency ASI’s Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation constellation, along with three ‘CubeSats’, including ESA’s OPS-SAT – the world’s first free-for-use, in-orbit testbed for new software, applications and techniques in satellite...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... SpaceX launched 60 more satellites of its Starlink mega-constellation into a low-Earth orbit (LEO) and currently sat at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, is a Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network due...
09 March 2020
Organic molecules found on Mars could be consistent with early life, says study
... account for the thiophenes existence, but given their location – buried in mudstones that once upon a time sat at the bottom of an an ancient lake – then biological processes are a preferred source for the compounds. What is certain...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... long run.” Past NIAC projects have included an innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats and the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) – a vast radio telescope concept deployed to a crater on the far...
