During the Humans to Mars Summit space conference held last week, several companies presented how they could build infrastructure on the moon and other celestial bodies using 3D printing technology. Icon, the company known for its 3D-printed houses here on Earth, showcased something called Project Olympus. It involves the construction of both roads and housing […]
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Blue Origin to build lunar lander for NASA
NASA announced on Friday that it has awarded Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, the contract to build a lunar lander for their future moon missions under Artemis 5. Artemis 5 is planned for September 2029 and will land two astronauts on the surface of the moon. The mission will involve a total of four […]
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NASA astronauts to be tested in Kraken
The US space agency NASA will soon begin allowing its astronauts to test the simulator Kraken, originally developed by the US Navy. Kraken can best be described as a giant washing machine that tosses around whoever is inside the simulator at accelerations that can reach three times Earth’s gravity. The idea behind letting astronauts test […]
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NASA sets speed record in space communication
NASA has announced that their space communication system, TBIRD (TeraByte InfraRed Delivery), has once again set a speed record for data transmission from space to Earth. TBIRD is a laser-based communication system mounted on NASA’s PTD-3 satellite (Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator), which was launched into space last year. In December of last year, NASA announced that […]
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James Webb observes water on a comet
James Webb continues to explore space, and now astronomers have discovered water vapor on a comet using the space-based super telescope. Comet 238P/Read is located in the main asteroid belt, the large asteroid belt situated between Mars and Jupiter, approximately 200-300 million kilometers from Earth. Based on the observed water vapor around the comet, it […]
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62 new moons discovered around Saturn
Astronomers announced last week that they have discovered 62 new moons around Saturn. This brings the total number of moons to 145 and means that Saturn now has more discovered moons than all the other planets in the solar system combined. Earlier this year, twelve newly discovered celestial bodies around Jupiter were given moon status, […]
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Astronomers observe massive explosion in the universe
Astronomers, using several ground-based space telescopes, have discovered an enormous explosion in the universe that has been observable for over three years. The event is designated as AT2021lwx and was first detected in 2020 as a flash of light in the sky. When it was determined that it occurred 8 billion light-years away from us, […]
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ClearSpace to clean up space debris
Swiss company ClearSpace has signed an agreement with Arianespace, which means that ClearSpace’s debris removal satellite, ClearSpace-1, can be sent into space within a few years. ClearSpace’s business idea is to develop spacecraft that will act as space garbage collectors and remove defunct satellites from Earth’s orbit. Now it seems that the launch of their […]
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Vast presents the Haven-1 space station
In 2030, it is planned that the International Space Station (ISS) will be retired, and after that, one or more private space stations are expected to take over the work currently being carried out on the ISS. Today, the American space company Vast presented the Haven-1 space station, which they plan to build with the […]
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NASA tests snake-like robot EELS
NASA has developed a snake-like robot called EELS (Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor) that is intended for future exploration of planets and moons. Now, EELS has been tested in different conditions. In the video below, you can check out some of the tests. EELS is designed to be largely autonomous in its investigations and missions since […]
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James Webb photographs asteroid belt around star Fomalhaut
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take a look, for the first time in infrared light, at an asteroid belt outside our own solar system. It’s a huge asteroid belt that lies around the relatively young star Fomalhaut, located about 25 light-years from the sun in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The […]
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Four of Uranus’ moons may have liquid water
Researchers studying Uranus’ moons a bit closer suggest that the four largest of the planet’s 27 moons likely have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface. These are the moons Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, which researchers believe generate enough internal heat that some of the water on the moons is still in liquid form under […]
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NASA showcases supermassive black holes
NASA has released a new animation showing some of the billions of supermassive black holes in the universe, the black holes that are at the center of most, if not all, galaxies. In the clip, which can be found below, they begin by showing the supermassive black hole in the “small” dwarf galaxy J1601+3113, which […]
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European satellite companies to build Starlink competitor
Several European space and satellite companies have now agreed to build a satellite-based network that can provide the Earth with internet connectivity, similar to SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and the UK’s OneWeb. IRIS² consortium formed by five space and satellite companies The EU has been interested in building a Starlink competitor since 2020, and […]
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James Webb has discovered water vapor around an exoplanet
Astronomers have observed water vapor around the exoplanet GJ 486 b, a so-called “super-Earth” that orbits a red dwarf star in the constellation Virgo, located 26 light-years away from us, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). GJ 486 b is approximately 30 percent larger than Earth and has three times the mass of Earth. […]
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Russia will remain on the ISS until 2028
The US space agency NASA announced yesterday that their partners on the International Space Station will continue to support work on the ISS for at least five more years. Among other things, Russia will stay on the ISS until at least 2028. Previously, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos stated that Russia would […]
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Hackers managed to take control of an ESA satellite in a test
The European Space Agency (ESA) allowed hackers to attempt to gain control of one of their satellites, and unfortunately it seems that this was possible. Thales group takes control of OPS-SAT Several groups of security experts were given the opportunity to try to take control of ESA’s small CubeSat satellite, OPS-SAT, during the test. A […]
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NASA extends the lifetime of Voyager 2
NASA has done what can be called a “lifehack” on its spacecraft Voyager 2, which has enabled all of the instruments on board to be in operation for a few more years. Voyager 2 left Earth over 45 years ago, and previously NASA stated that Voyager would likely stop using all five instruments and sending […]
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China’s rover on Mars may have fallen asleep for good
China’s Mars rover Zhurong may have possibly fallen asleep for good after being put into hibernation mode in May of last year. The plan was for it to rest during the Martian winter and then be reactivated in December of last year. It doesn’t seem like that has happened, and China’s space agency CSNA has […]
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Japanese moon landing mission failed
Yesterday, Japanese company Ispace was set to perform its first moon landing, but unfortunately, it did not go as planned. At first, the descent of Ispace’s lunar spacecraft, Hakuto-R, went as intended, but when the spacecraft was about 90 meters from the moon’s surface, contact with it was lost. Ispace later stated in a comment […]
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Space telescope Euclid will soon be sent to space
This summer, the European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to launch its new space telescope, Euclid, into space. ESA hopes that through Euclid’s observations, they will be able to learn more about the relationship between dark energy, dark matter, and gravity, and how these forces affect the expansion of the universe. ESA writes: While dark […]
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Mobile call via satellite with regular mobile phone conducted
The American company AST SpaceMobile has carried out the first mobile call with traditional mobile phones via its satellite BlueWalker 3 (BW3), according to a press release from the company. During the call, AST Mobile’s CEO Abel Avellan used a Samsung Galaxy S22 phone when he called a team at the Japanese company Rakuten in […]
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Today, Hakuto-R lands on the moon
Today is the day for the Japanese space company, Ispace, to carry out what could be the first successful moon landing by a private company. Ispace Hakuto-R is planned to land at the Atlas crater on the moon today. M1 program: Ispace and their moon exploration The unmanned Hakuto-R left Earth in December last year […]
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Hope checks out Mars moon Deimos
It has been just over two years since the United Arab Emirates’ Mars probe, Hope (Amal), arrived on the red planet and it has now sent back some new images from there. The latest images show detailed images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons. The irregularly shaped Deimos is about 15x12x12 km in […]
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SpaceX’s launch pad took quite a beating during the Starship test
Last week, it was finally time for SpaceX to test its massive rocket, Starship, which ended up reaching around 40 km above Earth before exploding. The Starship test provided SpaceX with a vast amount of data on what needs to be done to improve the spacecraft and its accompanying Super Heavy launch rocket. It also […]
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Airbus unveils Loop space station with simulated gravity
Airbus has presented some sketches of what a future space station might look like. Airbus calls its concept “Loop” and one section of the space station is equipped with a centrifuge that would simulate gravity similar to Earth’s gravity, which would allow astronauts to spend their time on the space station in a state of […]
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Hyundai to build a lunar vehicle
Hyundai Motor Group, together with six South Korean research institutes, will develop a vehicle intended for moon exploration. It’s a 70 kg solar-powered rover that Hyundai will build using technology from Hyundai and Hyundai-owned KIA. This includes equipping the vehicle with cameras, lidar, motors, solar panels, and batteries that Hyundai and KIA have developed for […]
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Sateliot has launched its first 5G satellite
The Spanish satellite company Sateliot recently launched the first 5G satellite in what will become a global 5G network built with satellites in orbit around the Earth. Sateliot calls its first satellite “Groundbreaker” and it is said to be the first satellite in space that can communicate via the 5G standard. However, Groundbreaker and the […]
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Starship exploded before reaching space
SpaceX tested for the first time to send its Starship spacecraft into space with the help of the Super Heavy rocket. Even before the test, SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned that things might not go exactly as planned, which turned out to be the case. Starship and Super Heavy lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase in […]
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Check out when Starship goes to space
Today, SpaceX will make another attempt to send its giant Starship rocket into orbit around the Earth. SpaceX had originally planned to carry out Starship’s space test on Monday but canceled it because there was a little trouble with one of the spacecraft’s valves. If everything goes as planned today, the 70-meter-tall Super Heavy star […]