Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a second CLPS transportation order to the Moon, this time for the Blue Ghost 2 lander mission which NASA has payloads on under a US$112 million contract made under the NASA CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) programme. Blue...
A new style, for a new space era – that’s the message NASA wants to send with the unveiling of brand new spacesuits for the return to the Moon, designed by Axion Space. The Artemis III spacesuit prototype, the AxEMU, was unveiled during a “Moon 2 Mars” festival hosted...
China has revealed a model of its lunar landing craft at the National Museum of China in Beijing, with which it hopes to carry its astronauts (‘taikonuats’) onto the Moon by 2030 or earlier. The model appears to have a “transfer stage”...
SpaceNews reports (quoting the South China Morning Post) that the Zhurong 1 Mars rover as part of the Tianwen 1 mission for China has failed to make contact in December as planned after its period of hibernation during the Northern Hemisphere Martian winter since 18...
Much changed on Earth and in space during 2022. In July the James Webb Telescope, the largest optical telescope in space, delighted the world with stunning infrared images, revealing the most detailed view ever of the Universe. After a series of stalled attempts,...
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre (KSC), Florida, USA at 2227 GMT on 8 December. The vehicle was carrying forty OneWeb communications satellites (465 plus 39 others) to go into the OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO)...
