Houston TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
The inaugural CHAPEA, or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, mission began Sunday, June 25, when the four-person volunteer crew entered its new home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to begin a 378-day Mars surface simulation. This is the first of three planned missions. NASA will use research gained from CHAPEA to determine how to best support crew health and performan

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
It's been one year since CAPSTONE separated from its launch vehicle to become the first commercial spacecraft operating at the Moon. Advanced Space is grateful to our team members and proud of all their accomplishments! b>A Rocky Start br> /b> One year ago, we were sweating a bit. On July 4, after CAPSTONE separated from its launch vehicle, it had deployed its solar arrays; started charg

Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
A new analysis shows that there are probably many more Earth-like exoplanets with liquid water than had been thought, significantly increasing the chance of finding life. The work finds that even where the conditions are not ideal for liquid water to exist at the surface of a planet, many stars will harbour geological conditions suitable for liquid water under the planet's surface. Present

Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2023
The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume - 85% compared to 15% for Earth. The NASA Discovery-class MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) mission, and first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, captured measurements revealing that

A state-of-the-art conference centre that will support the thriving UK space industry has opened at Harwell campus in Oxfordshire.

WASHINGTON — NASA awarded task orders to two companies already working on spacesuits for the International Space Station and Artemis missions to develop alternative versions of their suits.

Voyager Space is considering using India’s proposed Gaganyaan crewed spacecraft to serve the commercial space station it aims to be operating by the end of the decade.

In an era of great power competition and increasing global reliance on space-based assets, the U.S.

Through a project called Destination: Space 2050, Lockheed Martin executives are exploring, for example, how AI could assist scientific exploration of locations where communications with remote sensors would be disrupted by high latency.

The rapid growth in the number of space objects is testing an international governance model many in the industry worry can no longer keep up.