The End of NASA – Ice on the Moon
As Nasa is doomed to be dismantled and sold for parts to Space X it is with sadness I ponder what could have been. The Shuttle was the penultimate worst wrong turn of the many NASA has made, the worst being Elon Musk of course. I have puzzled for over a decade, since I became […]
The Next SLS Rocket Will Resume Pre-Launch Stacking Before the End of this Month…
NASA / Kim Shiflett NASA Artemis II Core Stage Goes Horizontal Ahead of Final Integration (News Release – March 14) Technicians used massive cranes inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to lift the SLS (Space Launch System) core stage out of High Bay 2 and into a […]
Pixxel satellites deliver groundbreaking hyperspectral imaging milestone
Pixxel satellites deliver groundbreaking hyperspectral imaging milestone by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2025 Pixxel, a leader in hyperspectral imaging technology, has announced a major advancement in Earth observation as its trio of Firefly satellites has captured and transmitted their inaugural ‘First Light’ imagery. These images set a new benchmark, […]
Dan Goldberg Satellite 2025 interview transcript
At the recent Satellite 2025 conference in Washington, DC, the March 11 opening session was a fireside chat with Telesat president and CEO Dan Goldberg. The interview host was the Satellite Guest Host Sarah Cruddas, a veteran journalist. The conversation with Goldberg highlighted the company’s ambitious plans for its Lightspeed low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite […]
A taxonomy of human space sites in the solar system
This is an attempt to work out the range and typology of human sites related to space exploration. As with everything, once you start to try and pin down categories you find that there are grey areas and ambiguities that have to be resolved, definitions that bleed into each other, aspects that you didn’t anticipate. […]
March Night Sky 2025 – Astronotes
Welcome to our quick take on top celestial wonders to spot in the March night sky! Well we’ve certainly been spoiled for entertainment so far this year with the heavyweights of our Solar System -Earth’s planetary neighbours gathering together on the same side of the Sun to put on the first ever ‘Grand Parade’ of […]
Longest Commercial Operations on the Moon – A Report Card
Blue Ghost lunar lander.Image credit: Firefly Aerospace The Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft sitting on the Moon completed more than 14 days of surface operations (346 hours of daylight), and operated just over 5 hours into the super-chilly lunar night. Final data from the lunar lander was received on March 16. “This achievement marks the […]
Retirement Time For The ESA Integral Spacecraft
Integral, ESA’s International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, was launched on 17th October 2022 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on board a Proton rocket. It was placed in a highly elliptical inclined Molniya orbit which circles Earth once every three days. Such orbit reaches an altitude of 150000 km at perigee (almost halfway between Earth and […]
Famed Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman to Receive the Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Award at the NSS International Space Development Conference
Haldeman Joins Multiple Astronauts, NASA Officials, NewSpace Entrepreneurs, and other Visionaries at the ISDC The National Space Society is proud to announce Joe Haldeman as a featured guest at its 43rd annual International Space Development Conference® (ISDC®), being held in Orlando, Florida from June 19-22. He will be receiving the inaugural Arthur C. Clarke Memorial […]
Space Industries sets ambitious goals for satellite assembly, integration and testing
After spending more than a decade in the United States and obtaining dual citizenship, Giuseppe Santangelo returned to Turin, Italy to establish Space Industries, a business focused on rapid assembly, integration and testing of satellites as large as eight cubic meters. By 2030, Space Industries will employ 300 people and produce one satellite per workday, […]