January 5th, 2025
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There is a possible candidate for that large metallic ring that fell from the sky on December 30 in Africa, reportedly crashing “red-hot” into Mukuku village, in Makueni county – in the country’s south. Investigators with the Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia reported that the object, which is roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) […]
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The seventh flight test of the SpaceX Starship atop its Super Heavy booster is being readied for launch. According to SpaceX, the upcoming flight test, reportedly targeted for January 10, will launch a new generation ship “with significant upgrades.” In addition, there will be an attempt for Starship’s first payload deployment test, fly multiple […]
About that possible space debris landing in Africa. Comment from “Ed”: “Check out the Ariane 5 Space Debris (33155) that reentered around the same time. It was equatorial and more likely to be a candidate at the time of reentry.” However, the reentry messages from space track, Ed adds, would have both the […]
NASA wants to bring Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. Meanwhile, there appears to be an unofficial robotic space race underway involving the Red Planet. Both the U.S. and China are scripting a strategy for bringing back to Earth goodies […]
Talk about ring in the New Year! Kenya Space Agency (KSA) officials in Nairobia, Kenya, East Africa, are reporting that on December 30 a large metallic ring roughly 8 feet (2.5 meters) in diameter and weighing some 1,100 pounds (500 kilograms) fell from the sky, reportedly “red-hot” and crashed into Mukuku village, in Makueni county […]
The China Manned Space Agency on Monday released a first-ever progress report on the output from the country’s space station. This CMSA report provides an overview of the work accomplished over the past two years. Over those years, China carried out four crewed flights, three cargo resupply missions, and four spacecraft return missions. Five […]
It seems fair to say that this year has arguably been a page-turner in defining and refining interest in Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), an aerial off-shoot — rightly or wrongly — of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), of alien-flown flying saucers sprinting through our skies. There have been back-to-back open Congressional hearings and several classified gatherings in […]
China has approved new lunar sample research applications from institutions, permitting them to borrow samples returned by both the country’s Chang’e-5 and Chang’e-6 missions. According to China’s Xinhua news agency, a total of 8,550.4 milligrams of lunar samples will be lent to 18 researchers from 16 research institutions, such as the China University of Geosciences […]
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given the go for the first launch of the Blue Origin New Glenn mega-booster. Under the FAA Part 450 commercial space launch license they authorized the maiden flight of New Glenn. “The FAA determined Blue Origin met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements. The license allows Blue Origin […]
A team of researchers from Germany, Austria, Poland and Italy are hard at work designing and testing a novel extractor technique for the prospect of using water ice found on the Moon. The LUWEX group’s “downstream” goal is to be able to process kilograms of lunar regolith containing enough water ice to support a purification […]
