Bids to take a ride on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft approach $3M as more still flood in

Bidding to be the first paying customer on the New Shephard rocket from Blue Origin approached $3 million on Thursday, with additional bids to be placed in the coming days.  According to the company’s website, the highest bid is $2.8 million, up from $2.4 million on Wednesday. The identity of the top bidder is not … Read more

Bids to become the first paying customer on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft top $3 million

Bidding to be the first paying customer, on Blue Origin’s New Shephard rocket topped $3 million on Monday, flying alongside company founder Jeff Bezos and his brother.  According to the company’s website, the highest bid to ride on the July 20 flight is $3.2 million, up from $2.8 million in late May. The identity of … Read more

Lagrangey McLagrangeFace? ESA is letting the public name its new spacecraft

Lagrangey McLagrangeFace? European Space Agency is calling on the public to help rename its Lagrange spacecraft that will fly ‘behind’ Earth to spot potentially hazardous solar storms ESA is asking for the ‘best and liveliest’ suggestions for its new weather satellite The craft will spot potentially hazardous solar storms before they reach the Earth ‘Lagrangey McLagrangeFace’ … Read more

NASA’s Orion spacecraft completes first water drop test in preparation for Artemis I launch in Nov

NASA conducted its first splash test for the Orion spacecraft in advance of the upcoming Artemis lunar missions. Cameras captured the 11-foot capsule dropping into the ‘hydro impact basin,’ a large tank of water at Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia.  However, the drop was hardly a long fall -the … Read more

Next stop Mars: Three spacecraft arriving at Red Planet tomorrow

Three robotic explorers launched by three different nations are due to reach Mars within days of each other, after hurtling hundreds of millions of miles through space. The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter, called Hope, reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo, Tianwen-1.  NASA’s rover, Perseverance, will arrive a week later, on … Read more

China shares first photo of Mars from its Tianwen-1 spacecraft

China shares incredibly detailed photo of Mars as its Tianwen-1 spacecraft inches closer to landing on the Red Planet Black and white photograph was published by the Chinese space agency   It was snapped from a distance of 1.4million miles away from the Martian surface The uncrewed Tianwen-1 launched on July 23, 2020 and projected to land in May … Read more

NASA’s Hubble spacecraft discovers evidence of a weather system on nearby ‘Hot Jupiter’

NASA’s Hubble spacecraft discovers evidence of a WEATHER system on nearby ‘Hot Jupiter’ exoplanet – despite blistering surface temperatures of 2,192°F Researchers examined images of WASP-31b taken by the Hubble telescope  WASP-31b is an extremely hot ‘puffy planet’ 1,305 light years away from Earth  It is tidally locked, with one side facing the star and the … Read more

New spacecraft to track comets will be built in Britain

Government announces new spacecraft to track down comets and map them in 3D will be built in Britain By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 00:01 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 14 December 2020 A new spacecraft to track down comets and map them in 3D will be built in Britain, … Read more

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft steadily descends onto asteroid Bennu

NASA prepares for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu with OSIRIS-REX mission where its robotic arm will collect rock samples during brief contact before launching back into space NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready to reach out its robotic arm and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu’s surface Tuesday evening As of 5pm Tuesday EST … Read more

NASA spacecraft to touch down on asteroid Bennu TODAY

NASA will ‘tag’ the Bennu asteroid later tonight, taking a sample of rock from its boulder-strewn surface and returning it to Earth in about three years.  The space agency’s van-sized OSIRIS-REx craft will touch down for a handful of seconds on the space rock following a carefully orchestrated 4.5-hour descent. The spaceship is scheduled to … Read more