Topic: Rockets
Ep. 2.23: Planning to go back to the Moon

Ep. 2.23: Planning to go back to the Moon

by | Jun 19, 2024 | , , ,

Let's take a quick tour of the latest news, including updates on the Hubble Space Telescopes and single gyro operations, EUCLID's image release, an amazing new image of Io by LBT, and new calculations of Pluto's oceans. We also look in detail at plans to return humans to the moon using Starship by SpaceX and Blue Moon by Blue Origin. Related Stories: Hubble Space Telescope down to 1 gyro EUCLID Space Telescope releases first images Large Binocular Telescope images Jupiter's moon Io Lucy Mission discovers asteroid Dinkinesh throws rocks Pluto's ocean details are calculated In-Depth: Returning...

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Lucy Sends Science Home

Lucy Sends Science Home

by | Nov 22, 2023 | ,

Credit: NASA Back in October 2021, a mission called Lucy lifted off on a multi-year journey to visit Jupiter’s two collections of Trojan Asteroids. Today, it is making its way through the asteroid belt before circling back to use the Earth to get a gravitational...

Closer Look: Satellites versus Science

Closer Look: Satellites versus Science

by | Oct 25, 2023 |

Bluewalker 3 over Kitt Peak In this week’s closer look, we go where I haven’t really wanted to go before: we are going to look at the impacts of the growing number of satellites, like star links, on our ability to safely live and do astronomy. This closer look is...

Rockets Report: 2023/08/05

Rockets Report: 2023/08/05

by | Aug 5, 2023 |

Credit: SpaceX This week was a week of highs and lows.  SpaceX launched the biggest commercial satellite ever but the last ever Antares 230 also launched.  Plus a new radar satellite for Singapore and a bunch of Starlink and Chinese launches.First up is that...