Until August of this year OSIRIS-REx will be in Orbital B
at only 680 metres above the surface of asteroid Bennu.
Saturday, 15 June 2019
Friday, 14 June 2019
Why waste satellite junk?
Keith Volkert, the CEO of Satellite Consulting Inc.,
is seriously considering a scheme for taking big defunct satellites
from their current graveyard orbits
into new parking places in lunar orbit
for future recycling on the moon,
though he admits that " he still has to fill in some blank spaces in his plan".
Saturday, 11 May 2019
USA and LSA share business-friendly cosmic vision
The United States of America and Luxembourg
have now signed
a memorandum of understanding
on space co-operation.
Sunday, 5 May 2019
Zoom in on Hubble's Wide View of the Evolving Universe
265,000 galaxies
and 13.3 billion years of history
in this fantastic mosaic
of 7,500 Hubble exposures
Monday, 8 April 2019
A copper cylinder from planet Earth has hit an asteroid
And all that for the sake of kicking up a bit of dust?
Friday, 1 March 2019
Latest news from Jaxa on Hayabusa2 status
A few teething problems
but no major complications so far
up there on Ryugu.
(Check: Feb. 27, 2019
★ Hayabusa2 status (week of 2019.2.18) ★ )
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Words of wisdom on the future use of space resources
Issues in Science and Technology
has just published a rather exhaustive article
providing an up-to-date tour d'horizon
on the complex subject of what is often commonly referred to as
"space mining".
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