For decades, scientists believed the Moon was completely dry. This video explores how Apollo samples, Clementine, Lunar Prospector, Chandrayaan-1, LCROSS, LRO, and SOFIA gradually revealed the presence of water on the Moon and transformed our understanding of lunar science.
I’m on TikTok (like half the planet), and a prompt came up asking what the most romantic thing I’d ever done for someone was.
I don’t know why, but for the first time, I told the abridged version of a story I’ve never shared publicly.
Back in 2013, while I was working at SpaceX, I used company equipment to sneak a declaration of my affection into the assembly of SES-8. After a couple of launch delays, it finally lifted off on December 3, 2013, and was placed into geostationary orbit roughly 22,000 miles above Earth—where it remains to this day.
It’s probably the most ridiculous, over-the-top, hopelessly romantic thing I’ve ever done, and more than a decade later, it’s still holding its orbit.
The Apollo missions were each within a couple months of each other, whereas Artemis 2 was **four years** after Artemis 1, Artemis 3 will be a year after Artemis 2, Artemis 4 will be a year after Artemis 3 and so on.
The distance for example to Proxima is vast and beyond our feeble minds. Lights take 4 years to reach it in a speed of over 300k k/s! With today fastest rockets it would a damn 75k years to reach. Like I said, the speed and time are so vast it's beyond our comprehension to think about it.
Our own backyard the solar system is still vast enough to explore if you also include Kuiper's belt. It like what 10 years for New Horizon to reach Pluto? Once you reach out of Kuiper's belt, you are in interstellar space sort of on you way to the Oort cloud.
NASA has launched a high-priority mission to save its 1,450 kg observatory from a potential loss. The operation aims to preserve the spacecraft’s integrity, prevent disruption to critical scientific data, and extend its operational lifespan as much as possible. The situation is being treated as a complex, time-sensitive intervention requiring both precision engineering and rapid decision-making across multiple mission teams.
Skyroot Aerospace has announced the launch window for Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital launch vehicle. It can attempt launch between July 4th -August 12th. The mission, called Aagaman ("Arrival"), will attempt to place payloads into a 450 km Low Earth Orbit.
The primary objective is to gather real in-flight data across propulsion, stage separation, guidance, navigation and vehicle performance. That data will help validate the design and pave the way for a reliable, high-cadence launch programme.
Seems like BO is taking some notes from SpaceX on how to move things along fast if needed. Your erector got blasted by 1kT methalox rocket? Lets roll in the mighty German cranes!
This article says Earth is a haven for Life to emerge and evolve.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour is approaching its final mission. But this time, it won’t be blasting into a different atmosphere.
The California Science Center announced its Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will open to the public on Nov. 13. The $450-million, 200,000-square-foot addition will permanently house the Korean Air Aviation Gallery and the Kent Kresa Space Gallery. Featuring immersive exhibits — from a J.J. Abrams-produced launch film and fog-filled reveal to glass-floor views and a reentry slide — this new addition was built to ignite Angelenos’ curiosity about spaceflight.
The centerpiece of the museum’s new facility? The Samuel Oschin Shuttle Gallery, where the Space Shuttle Endeavour will be on permanent display in its vertical “ready-to-launch” position. Learn more about this one-of-a-kind exhibit at the link.