Planetary Society all set to go solar sailing

The sail (about the size of a boxing ring) has been successfully deployed;

now let the photons do their part of the job!

Link to: Article by Jason Davis

Chandrayaan-2 on its way to the moon

India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-2,

which will explore areas near the south pole of the moon,

is presently journeying towards its destination.

Link to: Department of Space Indian Space Research Organisation

OSIRIS-REx now even nearer the surface of Bennu

Until August of this year OSIRIS-REx will be in Orbital B

at only 680 metres above the surface of asteroid Bennu.

Link to: News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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".

Link to: June 13th article by Alan Boyle for GeekWire

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.

Link to: "Joint press release by the Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Embassy, Luxembourg."

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

Link to: Zoomable image of Hubble’s Spectacular Wide View of the Universe

Link to: hubblesite.org

A copper cylinder from planet Earth has hit an asteroid

And all that for the sake of kicking up a bit of dust?

Link to: www.sciencenews.org 

 Hayabusa2 has blasted the surface of asteroid Ryugu to make a crater