20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... light in precisely timed photon bursts. The DSOC is being hailed as a ‘game-changing’ technology and its development phase was funded by NASA’s STMD's Game Changing Development Program. STMD stands for Space Technology Mission Directorate and...
02 September 2019
Strange substance discovered by China's lunar rover on far side of the Moon
... its design lifetime of three Earth months, China’s Chang’e-4 lunar rover Yutu-2 – the first man-made ...that which created the 180 kilometre-wide Von Kármán Crater where the Chang’e-4 mission landed. However as the substance has been described as gel-...
06 May 2020
China launches prototype spacecraft on maiden flight of Long March 5B
... to Mars. China is also planning on using another Long March 5 rocket to haul its Chang’e 5 robotic lunar mission into space later this year. Chang’e 5, which was postponed due to the failure of a previous incarnation of the Long March...
22 April 2021
Earth Day 2021 - What can you do to help?
...notion that mitigation or adaptation are the only ways to address climate change. We all need a healthy Earth to support our jobs, ...global warming was the most likely cause of the directional change of the polar drift in the 1990s," said Shanshan Deng...
09 November 2016
How a Trump presidency might affect US space policy
... but to other scientific issues. For example, Trump has already openly questioned the science underlying climate change - at one point suggesting that it was a Chinese hoax - and pledged to pull the United States out of the...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
..., measuring Saturn’s gravitational and magnetic fields, determining ring mass, and making the last views of Enceladus. Chang’e 5, China’s unmanned mission to the moon is expected to land on the lunar surface this year and is expected to bring...
