Week in images: 31 March – 04 April 2025
Week in images: 31 March – 04 April 2025 Discover our week through the lens Source link
Jared Isaacman, Trump’s pick for NASA chief, to get Senate confirmation hearing on April 9
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the Trump administration’s pick to lead NASA, will appear before a Senate committee on April 9 for a confirmation hearing on whether he will be the next leader of the U.S. space program. Jared Isaacman, who made his billions as CEO of the Shift4 payment processing firm and has flown to […]
Stargazing Calendar for April 2025
Sombrero Galaxy (M104 or NGC 4594). A mosaic of six images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in May and June 2003. Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). April 2025 will be an exciting time for astronomy enthusiasts, with a variety of stargazing events lighting up the night sky. […]
TIME TO END TRUMP – Ice on the Moon
Nobody imagined it would be this bad. They are in a big hurry to destroy the government and if we do not stop them they will. The Trump administration needs to end in the same big hurry, or we will be living in a dictatorship very soon. Privatize means for profit means profit for billionaires. […]
The Latest Update on the First Crewed Flight to the Moon in 50+ Years…
NASA NASA Trains for Orion Water Recovery Ahead of Artemis II Launch (News Release – March 31) Preparations for NASA’s next Artemis flight recently took to the seas as a joint NASA and Department of Defense team, led by NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, spent a week aboard the USS Somerset off the coast of […]
MDA Space moves to acquire SatixFy in digital satellite expansion
MDA Space moves to acquire SatixFy in digital satellite expansion by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 02, 2025 MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a trusted partner in the global space sector, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE American: SATX), a provider of advanced satellite communications technology. […]
NordSpace launches SHARP supersonic and hypersonic platform
NordSpace, the Markham-based space tech company that is building launchers and its own Canadian spaceport, has unveiled its Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform (SHARP). SHARP is intended to serve clients wanting to fly high altitude and high speed missions, rather than sub-orbital and orbital space flights that would use NordSpace’s Taiga and Tundra boosters […]
NASA Astronauts Speak Out In First Interview After 9 Months In Space
In their first interview since returning to Earth after an unexpected nine-month stay in space, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they are not looking to point fingers, don’t consider their mission a failure and that they’d go back again if given the chance. “Space flight is hard. It’s really hard,” Williams told Fox […]
The Apollo core rope memory and women’s heritage on the Moon
Between 1969 and 1972 there were six Apollo human spaceflight missions to the Moon, each leaving a complex site behind. A common joke now is that the average smart phone has more computing power than an Apollo spacecraft, and while this may be true, that these early computers could take men to the Moon and […]
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER YOUNG STARS IN A DISTANT, METAL-POOR GALAXY USING JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – Astronotes
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, together with former PhD student Venu Kalari and a team of international researchers, have identified young, pre-main sequence stars in the low-metallicity dwarf galaxy WLM, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). On Christmas Day 2021, NASA and ESA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a cutting-edge successor to the Hubble […]