20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
... applications on the Moon. “Could they be 3D printed directly, for example, or would they require refining?” says ESA research fellow Alexandre Meurisse. “The precise combination of metals will depend on where on the Moon the regolith is acquired...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
...is what a team led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen have now found. Called KOI-456.0, the planet hs...who is based at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen. Given the Sun-like features of...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... full reusability”, along with a focus on scramjet engine research. The Liquid Propulsion Systems Center (LPSC) is to ... power its huge Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. ISRO’s research and development Inertial System’s Unit (IISU) has been asked to...
20 December 2021
China envisions crewed moon missions by 2030
.... Last month Peijan noted that Chinese boots on the moon will be “entirely possible” by 2030, as long as technological research for crewed moon landings continues, and “as long as the country is determined”, he said. The rocket in question could...
16 July 2019
Fuel leak halts India's Moon mission
.... Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) gave no explanation for what it called a "technical snag" in the rocket nor a date for a new...
20 September 2021
SpaceX all-civilian crew completes historic orbital mission
.... He chose Memphis-based St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the benefactor for a fundraising effort tied...they waited for recovery at sea, after days of medical research in microgravity and multiple calls to Earth, including conversations with...
