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NASA has shut down the first of the two Van Allen Probes in anticipation of their controlled burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere in about 15 years. On July 19, 2019, at 1:27 pm EDT, mission control at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics La… Continue reading NASA shuts down first of the two Van Allen probes
NASA engineers have started loading nuclear fuel into the Mars 2020 rover. In anticipation of the unmanned explorer’s scheduled 2020 launch, the space agency’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen has given the green light to begin placing the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel into the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) that will provide the rover with heat and electricity.
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In January, Swiss watchmaker Omega announced that it was bringing back its famous Calibre 321 that flew to the Moon inside the Omega Speedmaster wrist watches worn by the Apollo astronauts. Now, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Neil Armst… Continue reading Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch celebrates the Moon landing with historic calibre
Chris Kraft, who conceived NASA’s Mission Control, passed away on July 22, 2019 at the age of 95. The space agency’s first flight director, he oversaw manned space missions from Mercury to the early Space Shuttle launches and developed many o… Continue reading Chris Kraft, the man who created NASA Mission Control, dies at age 95
In an effort to spark the imagination of the next generation of aeronautical engineers, Airbus has revealed its new Bird of Prey concept aircraft design. Unveiled at the Royal International Air Tattoo airshow at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire,… Continue reading Airbus aims to inspire with Bird of Prey concept aircraft
India’s first lunar landing mission, Chandrayaan-2, lifted off at 2:43 pm IST on July 22 (July 21, 21:13 GMT) atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) MkIII-M1 rocket from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Second La… Continue reading India launches Chandrayaan-2 lunar landing mission
A new study indicates that a simple regime that keeps returning astronauts from fainting could help earthbound patients suffering from a similar condition. Led by Benjamin Levine, a professor of exercise sciences at UT Southwestern Medical Ce… Continue reading Fainting astronauts could help earthbound heart patients
Lockheed Martin says that it has completed the final assembly phase of the first full Orion spacecraft. At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, US Vice President Mike Pence made the public announcement in fro… Continue reading Construction of Orion spacecraft for Artemis-1 flight completed
Space engineers have long considered lunar soil as locally available material for building outposts on the Moon, and now ESA researchers are considering it as a means to store energy. The Discovery & Preparation study by the agency and Az… Continue reading Lunar bricks could keep Moon colonists warm and generate electricity
When the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, one of their main tasks was to break out a special tool kit that they used for collecting samples of rock and soil for return to Earth. Now the French company Comex is working under an ESA c… Continue reading ESA updates lunar tool kit for future Moon explorers