On its 100th launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted two lunar landers into space early Wednesday morning. The pair are two separate spacecraft from two different customers — one made by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace for NASA, the...
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January 15, 2025 albert
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November could be a hectic month for launches to the moon. Yes, that’s “launches,” plural. If there were any skepticism on whether the world has entered a new space race, the dueling lunar-bound liftoffs this month could be the smoking gun. After NASA waived-off two...
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Get your Bonnie Tyler cassettes ready because this weekend is the total lunar eclipse. On May 15, at approximately 9:11 p.m. PT, the Earth will pass between the sun and the moon, resulting in a shadow or eclipse on the lunar surface. For us little...
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May 14, 2022 albert
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The Yutu-2 image of the ‘mysterious hut’. (CNSA/CLEP/Our Space) The mysterious Chinese “moon cube” is no longer a mystery. The big reveal: it’s a rock that doesn’t even have the shape of a cube. National rover Yutu2 discovered the object – which appeared to...
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January 10, 2022 albert
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Soon, astronauts on moon missions won’t have any excuse for not answering their texts. NASA has awarded Nokia of America $ 14.1 million to deploy a cellular network on the moon. The freaking moon. The grant is part of $ 370 million worth of contracts...
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For the first time, astronomers think they’ve found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. And it’s a doozy. The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light-years away and thought to be many times more massive than Jupiter, much larger...
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