Updates on GLXP teams from Israel, India and Japan
Former Google Lunar X-Prize team SpaceIL have announced a launch and landing date via social media and other outlets. If all goes to plan, then Israel will be the fourth country...
Animals in space: The unlikely space pioneers
Today marks the 57th anniversary when Ham became the first chimpanzee in space. I want to take this opportunity to look back at the involvement of animals in the space industry....
Lunar exploration company ispace raises US$90 million in Series A
ispace, a Japan-based private lunar exploration company, announced on 13 December 2017 that it has raised approximately $90.2 million in Series A funding. According to the company, this is the most...
Second docking exercise of Tianzhou-1 and Tiangong-2 successfully completed
At 1455 on June 19, the second docking exercise of Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft and Tiangong-2 space station was successfully completed.
Tianzhou-1 was first tested at 0937 on the same day for orbital...
NASA to contribute to 2 upcoming JAXA missions
NASA and Japan’s space agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), have announced plans to continue collaborating on space exploration missions.
In a press conference held at JAXA headquarters yesterday, the two...
Crew of the Soyuz MS-04 Arrives at Baikonur In Preparation for Expedition 51 to...
Yesterday, NASA’s Jack Fischer and Roscosmos’ Fyodor Yurchikhin, the two crew members of Expedition 51 bound for the ISS, arrived at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, along with their backup crew, NASA’s Randolph Bresnik...
India’s second tryst with our Moon: Chandrayaan-2
An Indian spacecraft’s second tryst with earth’s only natural satellite in the form of the Chandrayaan-2 mission has been ongoing for some time now. What started as a joint mission with...
ISRO releases Oct 8 Mars images
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has just released its most recent image of Mars, taken on October 8 2017, from at altitude of from an altitude of 70,157 km (the first...
Interview: Microspace, Singapore’s 1st Newspace company
Microspace, which builds and operates its own nanosatellites, is Singapore's first Newspace company, having set up here in 2007. The company launched its first satellite POPSAT in 2014, making history for...
The hunt for Lunar lava tubes — 1960s to today
Last week, Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) detected what may possibly be an intact 50km lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the Moon. If true, this...
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