Last Thursday on 27 January, 2022 NASA marked its Day of Remembrance. A time that is set aside to remember those astronauts who died in the line of duty.
Read More »NASA releases updated plan to de-orbit the International Space Station by the end of 2030
NASA has published an update to its International Space Station (ISS) Transition Report which outlines how the ISS partners could safely de-orbit the space station with a debris footprint over the South Pacific Oceanic Uninhabited Area.
Read More »Artemis 1 ‘wet dress rehearsal’ pushed back
NASA held a media briefing today where they discussed yet another delay to the Artemis program, though this time it’s mainly the result of needing to “close-out” a long list of items ahead of the wet dress rehearsal.
Read More »Space Flight Laboratory wins contract for two small spacecraft
Toronto based Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has won contracts for two NASA Astrophysics Pioneers Program spacecraft, the StarBurst and Aspera missions.
Read More »James Webb Space Telescope arrives at L2
After a seemingly perfect 30 day journey from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope completed its orbital insertion burn today and has reached its new home at the Lagrange 2 point.
Read More »NASA releases Spinoff 2022 report
NASA has released its Spinoff 2022 report which feature more than “45 companies using NASA technology to create products and services here on Earth.”
Read More »Titan bound Dragonfly rotorcraft concept undergoes flight tests
In 2027 NASA will send the unique Dragonfly rotorcraft to Saturn’s moon Titan. Designed specifically for the Titan atmosphere, a concept was tested in September 2021 in the Imperial Dunes of California.
Read More »Technological Imperatives – NASA needs a new spacecraft
In this episode of the Terranauts podcast we talk about the technological imperatives that convinced NASA that it needed a new spacecraft before going to the Moon with the Apollo program.
Read More »The James Webb Space Telescope stretches out its sunshield in space
The sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope is fully unfurled. The newly launched NASA observatory – which includes Canadian contributions – passed this engineering milestone on Tuesday (Jan. 4), less than two weeks after launching on a flagship mission to better understand the universe's evolution and various cosmic objects. This page is for subscribers only. Already a subscriber? Log in. Fact-driven space news, columns, …
Read More »Space Based Solar Power – Has its time come?
In this weeks Space Economy podcast my special guest is John Mankins and we talk about Space Based Solar Power, has its time come?
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