NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has warned that China is using its space program to attempt to take over the moon, a claim the Chinese regime denies. Nelson told German outlet Bild on July 2, “We must be very concerned that China is landing on the moon and saying: It’s ours now and you stay out.”…
NASA Administrator Accuses China of Planning to Take Over the Moon
July 6, 2022
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NASA Satellite Breaks From Orbit Around Earth, Heads to Moon
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It’s been an unusual journey already for the Capstone satellite. It was launched six days…
Beijing Angry Over US News Report on Close Encounter Between US and Chinese Satellites
July 1, 2022
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News Analysis A U.S. news publication revealed an “in-orbit game of cat and mouse” between a U.S. surveillance satellite and two new Chinese satellites in geostationary orbit, angering Beijing. In response, China’s state-run media published a commentary on June 30 that slandered the United States, accusing it of “threatening [the] Chinese satellites’ safety.” SpaceNews reported…
Beijing Reacts to US Report on Close Encounter Between US and Chinese Satellites
July 1, 2022
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News Analysis A U.S. news publication revealed an “in-orbit game of cat and mouse” between a U.S. surveillance satellite and two new Chinese satellites in geostationary orbit. In response, China’s state-run media published a commentary on June 30 that slandered the United States, accusing it of “threatening [the] Chinese satellites’ safety.” SpaceNews reported on June…
Meet the ‘Zombie Star’ That Survived a Supernova Blast
WASHINGTON—Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death—a stellar explosion called a supernova—but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. Meet the “zombie star.” The star at issue, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope, is a kind known as a white…
NASA Hopes New Zealand Launch Will Pave Way for Moon Landing
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand. The initial stages of the launch went according to plan late Tuesday, with…
NASA Asteroid Mission on Hold Due to Late Software Delivery
NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its software for navigation, guidance, and control—a…
South Korea’s Successful Rocket Launch Boosts Companies’ Aerospace Ambitions
South Korea’s successful launch of a domestically-developed rocket on Tuesday has spurred companies’ hopes to capitalize on prospects in the national space program. More than 300 private companies contributed to the development of the Nuri rocket, also known as Korean Space Launch Vehicle II (KSLV-II), which cost roughly 2 trillion won ($1.5 billion) in total….
NASA: Give Us Back Our Moon Dust and Cockroaches
BOSTON—NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat…
Giant Sunspot Currently Facing Earth and Still Growing Capable of Emitting Powerful Solar Flares
A fast-growing giant sunspot that can emit solar flares has more than doubled in size in recent days and is currently facing Earth, according to experts. Sunspots are dark areas of strong magnetic fields on the sun’s surface. They appear dark because they are much colder than other parts of the sun’s surface, having formed at areas…
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