Satellite trains face a legal challenge.
Scientific American is looking up at the night sky and wondering if some new legal cases will keep the stars from being blotted out by […]
space exploration
A wooden satellite.
The European Space Agency is prepping payloads for a Finnish-built satellite made of wood with aluminum rails for launching and meatal “selfie stick” for a […]
Sending baby squid to the space station.
BBC reports on a NASA project that’s transporting cute little cephalopods into orbit, launching 128 baby bobtail squid and 5,000 tardigrades to the International Space […]
China ready to launch a big chunk of space station.
Scientific American prepares for the launch of a new place in space – the core module of the CSS (China Space Station), which, after 29 […]
Science Art: Geologic Map of Jezero Crater and the Nili Planum Region, Mars (Scientific Investigations Map 3464), by Vivian Sun and Kathryn Stack.
Click to embiggen This is a colorful map (literally called a mosaic!) of the area where Perseverance landed, only from a little higher up. You […]
SONG: Welcome to the Landing
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’”, as used in the […]
Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Mars rover sends “overwhelming” audio home. (And video and pics too.)
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover: But perhaps […]
Science Art: Ingenuity Mars helicopter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech
Next week, on February 18, this little chopper will touch down on Mars with the Perseverance rover. Then, a little while later, it’ll take off […]
China’s Mars probe is sending back pictures.
Popular Science shares a postcard of Mars taken up-close and personal by China’s Tianwen-1 probe as it enters orbit around the Red Planet: The five-ton […]
Counting elephants from space: satellite conservation.
The BBC reports on a new use for space hardware: training computers to count elephant populations from 370 miles overhead to keep them from hurtling […]
NASA’s Mars rover trains for “seven minutes of terror.”
BBC shares a video showing how February’s Perseverance Mars rover mission plans to start with an automated landing sequence engineers have dubbed “the seven minutes […]
After six years, an asteroid sample reaches Earth.
Reuters reports on the success of the Hayabusa2 mission. The spacecraft, gone for six years, has finally come home with stuff scooped from an asteroid… […]
SONG: Six Seconds
SONG: “Six Seconds” [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Science News, 21 Oct 2020, “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of […]
Our spaceship just grabbed a piece of asteroid.
Science News celebrates a long-shot success in space, as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is steered close enough to the asteroid Bennu to grab a piece to […]