Day: July 30, 2024

The Luxembourg-based subsidiary of Japanese space exploration firm ispace has finished building a micro lunar rover, which is now set to fly to the moon. The newly assembled rover is soon set to be transported to Japan for integration into ispace’s HAKUTO-R lander. The lander-rover combo is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 …

Japan’s iSpace Will Fly A Tiny European-Built Lunar Rover To The Moon This Year. Read More »

SpaceX reportedly in talks with US, Australian officials to land Starship rocket off Australian coast and recover it in Australian territory US aerospace company SpaceX is reportedly in talks with US and Australian officials over a plan to land a Starship rocket off Australia’s coast, part of a trend toward increasing security ties between the …

SpaceX ‘In Talks’ To Recover Starship Rocket In Australia. Read More »

Brigadier Hillary Kipkosgey, the Acting Director General of the Kenya Space Agency (KSA), hosted a series of meetings last Friday to discuss potential collaborations in space technology and its applications. These discussions, held at KSA headquarters in Nairobi, aimed to strengthen KSA’s position in the global space sector and enhance its contribution to national development. …

Kenya Space Agency Forges Global Partnerships to Boost National Space Capabilities. Read More »

United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) venerable Atlas V rocket will fly its final national security mission on Tuesday morning (July 30), and you can watch the action live. The Atlas V is is scheduled to launch from Florida’s Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday at 6:45 a.m. EDT (1045 GMT), on a classified mission for the …

Watch An Atlas V Rocket Launch Its Final National Security Mission Early July 30. Read More »

The sun has certainly had a busy weekend. Not only has our star fired off multiple M-class solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (eruptions of magnetic field and solar plasma), but now it’s topped it all off with a colossal X-class solar flare. The eruption peaked on July 28 at 10:33 p.m. EDT (0233 GMT …

Watch A Colossal X-Class Solar Flare Erupt From Earth-Facing Sunspot. Read More »

Dead stars may produce intense flashes of light through the power of gravity itself, researchers have demonstrated. Understanding this phenomenon could reveal new insights about some of the largest, most mysterious explosions in the universe. Neutron stars are among the strangest objects in the universe. These collapsed cores of massive stars are incredibly dense, hosting …

Dead Stars Sometimes Shine Again And Gravity Itself May Be Responsible. Read More »