October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... complex scenarios, collaborate and innovate in ways previously unimaginable. Space agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), are already applying Metaverse technologies for...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... from a distance of 2.2 million kilometres. The black-and-white photo released on 5 February by the China National Space Administration showed geological features including the Schiaparelli crater and the Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
... separated from its orbiter-returner combination at 4:40 a.m. Monday (Beijing Time), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Launched on 24 November, Chang'e-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in China...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... what needs to come next. NASA was not able to prepare one directly as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is not a cabinet-level agency, however the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) did...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... this week. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, and Zhang Keqiang, head of the China National Space Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents in Russia on Tuesday. Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft is a planned lunar...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... to make compensation payments to the operators in those scientifically sensitive sites. From the outset, the insurance system space administrators should be able to locate and identify all lunar devices. The far side could be monitored either from...
