Coming down: CLPS: Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1
Let’s take a look at what Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 has brought to the moon.
Where to go and how to get there
Let’s take a look at what Firefly’s Blue Ghost 1 has brought to the moon.
IM-2 is going to the Moon! Let’s have a look what it brings there.
A look at SPHEREx and PUNCH, two missions sharing a ride to a sun-synchronous low earth orbit.
It is 11 meters long and has an even longer history: ERA (European Robotic Arm), developed and built by ESA, launched to the ISS with the Russian multipurpose laboratory module NAUKA. Its journey from idea to space underscores one more time: space is hard and it can take a long time to get there. Let’s take a look at this arm’s journey into space.
ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet: on his second mission to the ISS, he again brings dinner for the stars
On 10 September 2020 an asteroid missed our planet by 40 million kilometers, more than 100 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. It was detected only very recently by amateur astronomer Leonardo Amaral of the Campo dos Amarais observatory in Brazil. To quote Planetary Society’s Chief scientist Bruce Betts: “the fact that this […]
Mars Missions 2020 This year will see four missions launching to Mars. The timing is of course dictated by the orbits of Mars and Earth in relation to another, which open a good launch window every two years. But the number also shows how space exploration has become a global affaire instead of one conducted […]