Hellish Venus is blistering hot, not only temperature-wise. It’s also a hot topic for scrutinizing whether or not the cloud-enveloped world might be a haven for high-altitude life. That prospect is fostering the first-ever private mission Venus to search for signs of life in its clouds by attempting to detect evidence of organic chemistry. The […]
ADRIAN — Three participants. Three tents. Three days. Mission accomplished. Share the Warmth of Lenawee, the county’s homeless shelter that is based in Adrian, not too long ago concluded a first-of-its-kind fundraiser for the shelter that saw three members of Share the Warmth’s board of directors living outside for three consecutive December days. One of […]
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, orbits in the outer solar system, about two billion miles (3.2 billion kilometers) from Earth. It is an enormous world – quadruple the diameter of Earth, with 15 times the mass and 63 times the volume. Unvisited by spacecraft for more than 35 years, Uranus inhabits one of […]
Jan. 1—Pete and Lynda Martinez of Mesa breathed a sigh two days before Christmas. They, Pete’s 88-year-old sister Virginia Guerreo and several of the Martinez’s children and grandchildren had just completed this year’s installment of a family tradition that dates back nearly a century: making scores of tamales for relatives, friends and neighbors. Pete’s mother, […]
UN peacekeepers are finishing their withdrawal from Mali on Sunday, after a long-running mission lasting a decade. Minusma – the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission – began in 2013 after an armed rebellion, but has been asked to leave by the country’s ruling military government. The UN mission’s head said it did a lot but fell […]
A Japanese private spaceflight company showed off its moon lander under construction for a new moon landing mission in 2024. A new video by ispace showed off the Mission 2 lander that will host a micro rover for a launch in winter 2024, if all goes to plan. “Our engineers have been working on the […]
The US military’s X-37B space plane has blasted off on another secretive mission, expected to last at least a couple of years. Like previous missions, the reusable plane resembling a mini-space shuttle carried classified experiments. There is no-one on board. The space plane took off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre […]
The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane blasted off Thursday on another secretive mission that’s expected to last at least a couple of years. Like previous missions, the reusable plane resembling a mini space shuttle carried classified experiments. There’s no one on board. The space plane took off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy […]
For generations, Western space missions have largely occurred out in the open. We knew where they were going, why they were going there and what they planned to do. But the world is on the verge of a new era in which private interests override such openness, with big money potentially on the line. Sometime […]
CEDAR PARK, Texas – Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace has launched its fourth alpha rocket in California. The rocket lifted off this morning from Vandenburg Space Force Base on a mission called “Fly the Lightning.” It’s taking a Lockheed Martin satellite to an orbit that is relatively close to the earth’s surface. RELATED: Cedar Park company […]
Savannah, Georgia — If historic homes are the fabric of Savannah, Georgia, Mae Bowley is the thread, salvaging precious materials from those about to be torn down. “I got bit by the old building bug, and the next thing I knew, I was a warrior for these old building materials, trying to do everything I […]
SpaceX is poised to break its rocket-reuse record yet again. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight (Dec. 22) during a four-hour window that opens at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on Dec. 23). It will be the […]