Archive for the 'Space' Category
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon
March 2nd, 2025Via: Space.com: Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name into the history books. Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface for NASA, which was understandably happy […]
U.S. Space Force Releases Image from X-37B Spaceplane
February 22nd, 2025First image from X-37B Spaceplanehttps://t.co/I5f3KzevxF pic.twitter.com/yDYkbDZ091 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) February 22, 2025 Via: The War Zone: For the first time, the U.S. Space Force has released a photo of Earth taken by one of its secretive X-37B mini-shuttles. The image appears to be the first in-orbit shot from the craft of any kind to be […]
Research Underway to Enable Satellites to Permanently Orbit in Very Low Earth Orbit
February 9th, 2025Is this actually going to happen? I don’t know why, but Cryptogon is read by many people who are qualified to provide a sanity check on this. I hope they comment. Needless to say, it would be very bad if remote operated/autonomous weapon systems were able to use realtime, high definition imagery, available planet-wide, for […]
Astronomers Discover Complex Carbon Molecules in Interstellar Space
October 26th, 2024Via: Science Alert: A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant interstellar cloud of gas and dust. This is exciting for those of us who keep lists of known interstellar molecules in the hope that we might work out how life arose in […]
Communications Satellite Intelsat 33e Breaks Up In Geostationary Orbit
October 22nd, 2024Via: SpaceNews: The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific. … In an Oct. 21 update, Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss. The company said it is working with government agencies to analyze data and […]
“Mechazilla Has Caught the Booster”: SpaceX Recovered Super Heavy Rocket Booster with Grabbing Arm on Launch Pad
October 13th, 2024“This is absolutely insane. On the first ever attempt, we have successfully caught the Super Heavy booster back at the launch tower.” Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024
California Officials Don’t Like Elon Musk, Restrict SpaceX Launches
October 12th, 2024California regulators have blocked @SpaceX launches because they disagree with @elonmusk's politics. This is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and a gross abuse of power, even in increasingly totalitarian California. pic.twitter.com/T7YZdTb0xJ — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 12, 2024 Via: Los Angeles Times: SpaceX’s plans to launch more rockets from the California coast were […]
ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky Way
October 1st, 2024Via: European Southern Observatory: Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ? the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of data, this […]
SpaceX-Polaris Crew Exits Capsule for First Private Spacewalk
September 12th, 2024SpaceX’s spacewalk is live! ? https://t.co/38sASIfn5N — Teslaconomics (@Teslaconomics) September 12, 2024 Via: Reuters: A crew of four aboard a SpaceX capsule embarked on the world’s first private spacewalk on Thursday, as an astronaut eased out of the Crew Dragon spacecraft on a tether into the vacuum of space, hundreds of miles from Earth. Billionaire […]
Strange Noises on Starliner Spacecraft
September 2nd, 2024Update: “An Audio Configuration Between the Space Station and Starliner” Via: Daily Mail: NASA has identified the source of strange, ‘sonar-like’ sounds coming from inside Boeing’s Starliner capsule, and says that the noises have stopped as of now. In an emailed statement, a NASA press officer told DailyMail.com that the cause was ‘an audio configuration […]
