Published by Universe Today, 17 January 2023 We live in an era of renewed space exploration, where multiple agencies are planning to send astronauts to the Moon in the coming years. This will be followed in the next decade with crewed missions to Mars by NASA and China, who may
By Matthew Ceith, Published by GiantFreakinRobot, 13 September 2022 A newly launched SpaceX satellite named Blue Walker 3 is likely going to be visibly brighter than any star in the sky. As the 21st Century space race between billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, as well as the United
By Matthew Humphries, Published by PC Magazine, 4 July 2022 NASA administrator Bill Nelson believes China is undertaking a military space program in a bid to gain total control of the moon, not allowing anyone else access to it. As Reuters reports, the comments were made by Nelson during an
By Fan Anqi and Zhang Changyue, Published by Global Times, 3 July 2022 NASA chief Bill Nelson has freshly warned of a new "space race" with China, claiming that China wants to "occupy the moon" citing the lunar research base that China and Russia are co-building, which he is "very
By Thomas Burghardt, Published by NASA Spaceflight, 30 June 2022 Virgin Orbit has scrubbed the launch the fifth flight of the LauncherOne rocket, after propellant temperature was deemed to be “slightly out of bounds”. The decision was made prior to the take off of Cosmic Girl, the carrier aircraft. The
By Katyanna Quach, Published by The Register, 23 April 2022 The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder. Commander of the 18th SDS, Lt. Col. Matt
By Andy Tomaswick, Published by Universe Today, 18 March 2022 The path back to the moon is long and fraught with danger, both in the real, physical sense and also in the contractual, legal sense. NASA, the agency sponsoring the largest government-backed lunar program, Artemis, has already been feeling the
By Eric Berger, Published by ArsTechnica, 18 March 2022 "The program is an economic engine for America." On Friday morning, NASA's titanic Space Launch System reached the launch pad. The rocket is not yet ready to fly, and it may not lift off the planet for several more months. But
