NASA’s First Lunar Space Station Modules Are Almost Complete Apart of NASA’s big plan to return to the Moon, for the first time, the agency […]
The Athena Lunar Lander Couldn’t Measure Its Distance From The Surface
It's now been confirmed that the Athena lunar lander's altimeter failed around the time the spacecraft reached the Moon. This instrument is key in the process of determining the lander's distance from the surface, which it then uses during the final landing maneuver. Without it, the Athena spacecraft didn't know its distance from the ground, which no doubt had an impact on the lander tipping over and sliding into its final resting place in a crater. Altimeter Failure Athena’s laser altimeters use a 1.2-megawatt laser that fires for a few nanoseconds and has a range of 80km. The laser enables…
The Athena Lunar Lander Couldn’t Measure Its Distance From The Surface
It's now been confirmed that the Athena lunar lander's altimeter…
A Closer Look At The Loss of Starship’s Upper Stage
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Why Exactly Did SpaceX Scrub Starship’s Eighth Flight Test?
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Blue Ghost Just Successfully Touched Down On The Moon
Early this morning on March 2nd, Firefly Aerospace's privately built…
A Private Lunar Lander Is About To Touchdown
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Ingenuity Surpasses 100 Minutes of Flight Time
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More Astronaut Training For Dream Chaser’s First Mission
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The Challenge of NASA’s Cost-Plus & Fixed Price Contracts
The Challenge of NASA’s Cost-Plus & Fixed Price Contracts More and more over time, especially with big projects like Artemis underway, we are seeing NASA […]
Blue Origin Reveals A New Space Tug
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Why Exactly Has The FAA Still Not Approved Starship?
Why Exactly Has The FAA Still Not Approved Starship? For the past couple of months, SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have been going […]
More Delays To The First Crewed Starliner Flight
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Why NASA’s Space Launch System Could Be Replaced
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What Is Blue Origin’s New Glenn Landing Plan?
What Is Blue Origin’s New Glenn Landing Plan? Blue Origin is in the process of manufacturing and testing various New Glenn hardware with the goal […]
What Exactly Did NASA Find In New Asteroid Samples?
What Exactly Did NASA Find In New Asteroid Samples? It’s been over 7 years since NASA launched a spacecraft intended to retrieve samples from an […]
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Is Heading To An Asteroid
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Is Heading To An Asteroid In less than 24 hours from now, tomorrow morning, a joint mission between SpaceX and NASA will […]