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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin debuts New Glenn rocket, signaling a new era in space exploration
24Feb By adminNo Comments
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin debuts New Glenn rocket, signaling a new era in space exploration

[ad_1] Blue Origin, the space technologies founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has achieved a significant milestone with the debut of its New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36). This marks the first time the advanced heavy-lift vehicle has been rolled out and upended, providing a glimpse of what's to come for future space missions.New Glenn rocket debutsAs per a Blue Origin blog post. the New Glenn rocket is poised to play a pivotal role in various missions, including supporting NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon. The successful rollout and upending on the launch pad signify a crucial step forward in the vehicle's development, paving the way for its inaugural launch later this year. The journey to the launch pad began in December, wi...
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ESA, NASA join hands to test next-gen camera for Moon mission
26Oct By adminNo Comments
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ESA, NASA join hands to test next-gen camera for Moon mission

[ad_1] After almost 40 years, NASA is finally going back to the Moon with its Artemis program. 3 missions have been planned as part of this latest attempt to touch down on the lunar surface. The Artemis 1, which launched on November 16, 2022, was an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon. The Artemis 2 will be a crewed test flight, while the Artemis 3 will carry a crew that will aim to explore the region near the lunar South Pole. To capture the lunar surface, the European Space Agency (ESA) is helping NASA develop a next-generation camera.Next-gen camera for lunar missionAccording to the ESA release, engineers have been developing the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) that will be used to capture the Southern region of the Moon. ES...
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Lunar mission! Iron to water, NASA to start project to mine the Moon
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Lunar mission! Iron to water, NASA to start project to mine the Moon

[ad_1] NASA is gearing up for its long-awaited return to the Moon after over 50 years, when it landed a huge number of astronauts there, but this time, the mission is more ambitious than merely leaving footprints behind. The space agency has set its sights on mining the Moon for valuable resources, with plans to kickstart the initiative as early as the next decade.NASA intends to send a drill rig to the Moon next month as a precursor to establishing large-scale lunar regolith mining by 2032. As reported by The Guardian, a scientist from NASA's Johnston Space Centre, Gerald Sanders, disclosed these plans while speaking at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane.Sanders emphasized the agency's goal to assess and quantify the potential resources available on the Moon.He said, We are trying t...
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Life on our Moon! NASA scientist points towards astonishing mystery
12Jun By adminNo Comments
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Life on our Moon! NASA scientist points towards astonishing mystery

[ad_1] In contrast to Earth's vibrant ecosystems, the moon has long been perceived as a barren and lifeless celestial body, devoid of water and signs of vitality. However, one NASA scientist believes there is more to the moon than meets the eye.According to Prabal Saxena, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, microbial life could persist in the severe circumstances found on the moon. "Relatively protected areas on airless bodies may harbour potentially habitable niches for such life," Saxena explained, as reported by Space.com. The source of this life is astonishing. If such moon bacteria exist, they most likely originated on Earth and travelled to the moon on a lunar lander!While Saxena primarily studies the potential existence of extraterrestrial life outside ou...
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What will the Artemis Moon base look like?
5May By adminNo Comments
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What will the Artemis Moon base look like?

[ad_1] The next time NASA goes to the Moon, it intends to stay.But building a lunar base is no small feat. It will need power generators, vehicles and habitats, and the space industry is racing to meet the technological challenges. "It's the Super Bowl of engineering," Neal Davis, lead systems engineer for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle at space company Dynetics, told AFP. Dynetics revealed its prototype design for a Moon rover last month at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.But it probably won't be until later Artemis missions -- 7 onwards -- "where we're starting to look at adding permanent habitations on the surface," said NASA associate administrator Jim Free.Artemis 3, the first planned landing, won't happen until later this decade, so habitat building wouldn't start before the 20...
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First woman, Black astronaut to make 2024 flight around Moon
5Apr By adminNo Comments
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First woman, Black astronaut to make 2024 flight around Moon

[ad_1] NASA unveiled the crew on Monday for its first human mission to the Moon in more than 50 years -- including the first woman and Black man to voyage into deep space.Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, will be a mission specialist on next year's Artemis II flight around the Moon. NASA's Victor Glover, a naval aviator, will pilot the Orion spacecraft that circles the Moon in November 2024, becoming the first Black man to take part in a lunar mission. Rounding out the crew are veteran NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, 47, the mission commander, and Jeremy Hansen, also 47, a former fighter pilot now with the Canadian Space Agency.The three Americans and one Canadian will become the first astronauts to venture that deep into s...
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Next-generation spacesuit for future NASA mission to Moon unveiled
16Mar By adminNo Comments
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Next-generation spacesuit for future NASA mission to Moon unveiled

[ad_1] NASA and the private aerospace company Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next mission to the Moon.The suit revealed at an event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston features greater flexibility and thermal protection than those worn by the Apollo astronauts who first walked on the lunar surface more than 50 years ago. The garment has multiple protective layers, a backpack with life support systems, and lights and a high-definition video camera mounted on top of the bubble-shaped helmet. The US space agency's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon in late 2025 for the first time since the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972, an initial step towards an eventual voyage to Mars.Axiom Space ...
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NASA moon rocket: From Hitchhikers, Moonship to crew capsule, all explained
16Nov By adminNo Comments
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NASA moon rocket: From Hitchhikers, Moonship to crew capsule, all explained

[ad_1] NASA has kicked off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule. NASA has kicked off its new moon program with a test flight of a brand-new rocket and capsule. Liftoff, which was slated for early Wednesday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, went off successfully. The test flight has sent an empty crew capsule into a far-flung lunar orbit, 50 years after NASA's famed Apollo moonshots.The project is years late and billions over budget. The price tag for the test flight: more than $4 billion. A rundown of the new rocket and capsule, part of NASA's Artemis program, named after Apollo's mythological twin sister: ROCKET POWERAt 322 feet (98 meters), the new rocket is shorter and slimmer than the Saturn V rockets that hurled 24 Apollo astronaut...
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