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Looking back at Pathfinder as the start of modern Mars exploration
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Moon Monday #83: CAPSTONE launch, the final SLS rocket test, and more trailblazing
We’re about to have our first Moon mission launch since Chang’e 5 in 2020! CAPSTONE launches for the Moon tomorrow The NASA-funded and Advanced Space-built CAPSTONE spacecraft is set to launch tomorrow, June 28, from New Zealand on Rocket Lab’s small Electron launch vehicle with an upgraded
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Rings in our Solar System can come and go
By the time Saturn becomes a pale hazy brown ringless orb, another planet will have adorned a cosmic crown of its own.
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Moon Monday #82: Growing NASA-ESA synergy, lunar Starship, wireless power on the Moon, and more updates
NASA and ESA enhance their collaboration on exploring our Moon At the ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Netherlands on June 15, 2022, NASA and ESA extended their collaboration in several ways, including expanding their cooperation in lunar exploration. As part of an agreement, UK’s Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft will be
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NASA and ESA are collaborating to better explore our Moon with Lunar Pathfinder
At the ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Netherlands on June 15, 2022, NASA and ESA extended their space collaboration in several ways, including agreeing to cooperate on the Lunar Pathfinder orbiter mission, whose spacecraft is being built by UK’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) with input from anchor customer
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Moon Monday #81: Lunar missions on the verge of launching and future hardware coming to life
There has been a plethora of updates last week as well as last month on upcoming lunar missions so today’s Moon Monday is presented a bit differently—developments are grouped by type. Despite some more mission delays, seeing so many spacecraft on the verge of launching and so much
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Moon Monday #80: New spacesuits for Moonwalking, a volcanic visit, and updates from around the globe
The first Artemis astronauts to land on the Moon will wear privately developed spacesuits After requesting proposals from U.S. companies in October last year, NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to provide advanced and highly flexible spacesuits and associated services for future astronauts on the Moon as
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Moon Monday #79: A Japanese landing on the Moon, a good Gateway, Lunar Outpost rovers and more updates
A Japanese astronaut will land on the Moon with NASA’s help On May 23, the U.S. and Japan extended their collaboration on Artemis human lunar exploration from the NASA-led Gateway space station to the Moon’s surface. In addition to the previous arrangement of providing seats to Japanese
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Moon Monday #78: NASA’s Lunar-Mars vision, forward planning Artemis I, and more lunar updates
Mapping NASA’s Moon to Mars objectives to efforts on Earth On May 17, NASA released a draft set of 50 one-liner, high-level Moon to Mars objectives, notably the first time anything specific on the matter has been put out publicly. The objectives, aimed at establishing a permanent human presence
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How Uranus and Neptune are key to unlocking how planets form
A flagship mission to the ice giants will forever change our understanding of the origin and evolution of our solar system, and those beyond.
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Moon Monday #77: Lunar soil plants, growing international synergy, more SLS fixes, and other lunar updates
Plants grow in lunar soil, but barely like it For the first time ever, researchers have successfully grown plants in lunar soil, particularly in several samples from Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions. The plants weren’t as healthy as the control group plants were in lunar soil simulants made
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When to worry about an asteroid hitting Earth
And how to treat sensationalist headlines.