Tokyo (AFP) Jan 25, 2024
Japan's "Moon Sniper" craft made a pin-point lunar landing despite last-minute engine problems, the space agency said Thursday as it released the first images from the mission. A photo taken by a mini-rover showed the boxy yellow lander sitting intact at a slight angle on the rocky grey surface, lunar slopes rising in the distance. Saturday's touchdown made Japan only the fifth nation to

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2024
Boeing (NYSE: BA), in collaboration with NASA and the ISS National Laboratory, is embarking on a novel investigation aimed at enhancing the capabilities of the Genes in Space toolkit, a cornerstone program for student researchers in spaceflight biotechnology. The Genes in Space program, co-founded by Boeing and miniPCRbio, has for almost a decade challenged students to develop experiments

Week in images: 22-26 January 2024

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Join ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world".

The ESA - European Space Agency-built Cupola is the favourite place of many astronauts on the International Space Station. It serves not only as a unique photo spot, but also for observing robotic activities of the Canadian Space Agency's robotic arm Canadarm2, arriving spacecraft and spacewalks.

Marcus was launched to the International Space Station on the Dragon spacecraft as part of Axiom Mission 3 on 18 January 2024. His two-week mission on board is known as Muninn.

Follow Marcus’s journey on the

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Image: Record-breaking Arctic cold weather has swept through much of the United States in the last few weeks. The eastern part of the country was particularly affected with thick snow blanketing most of the region, as this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows.

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2024
Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, landed on the moon Saturday about 180 feet, or little more than half a football field, away from its target landing spot, space officials said on Thursday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said its landing technology allowed SLIM to land within 330 feet of the targeting landing location, calculating for obstacle avoidance m

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 26, 2024
In the high-tech Mars laboratory of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen, a silence of concentration prevails as a remarkable experiment unfolds, bridging the vast expanse between the International Space Station (ISS) and Earth. Swedish ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt, stationed in the Columbus module of the ISS, is at the forefront of the 'Surface Avatar' experiment, a novel