Anyone who has seen a rocket launch in person—I have!—has also felt its surreal rumbles despite being several kilometers away. A spacecraft sitting on top of a rocket needs to avoid damage to its structure by surviving the jolt from rocket engines turning on and the intense vibrations
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The mystery of the Moon’s volcanic water China’s Chang’e 5 mission, which brought to Earth 1.7 kilograms of lunar samples from near a volcanic dome in December 2020, confirmed that the Moon was volcanically active 2 billion years ago, a recent enough time on geological scales.
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Our Solar System hosts a great diversity of moons. There’s our own Moon, whose airlessness makes it a natural geological time capsule of events in the early Solar System. There’s Saturn’s largest satellite Titan, which boasts an atmosphere and lakes of methane in eerie reminiscence to adolescent
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Rocket Lab puts CAPSTONE on the path to the Moon On June 28, Rocket Lab successfully launched the NASA-funded and Advanced Space-built $13 million CAPSTONE spacecraft from New Zealand. At about 300 kilograms, CAPSTONE and the upgraded Photon third stage together are the heaviest payload the company’s
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And a cool fact about the mission and the Internet.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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
