by OGL News | Apr 20, 2023 | news-hub
Hakuto-R aims to become the first privately operated spacecraft to successfully land on the moon. A photograph of the lunar surface taken by the Hakuto-R moon lander built and operated by Japanese company ispace. (Image credit: ispace) Japan’s Hakuto-R...
by OGL News | Apr 19, 2023 | news-hub
The Federal Communications Commission plans to streamline its space activities to meet fast-growing space safety needs. An illustration of a object breaking up in Earth’s orbit. (Image credit: European Space Agency) The fast-growing space debris issue is top of...
by OGL News | Apr 18, 2023 | news-hub
“We don’t expect traces of life on the surface of these moons and it’s not feasible yet to go down to where there might be life.” Europe’s JUICE spacecraft will make two flybys at Jupiter’s moon Europa, which might host microbial...
by OGL News | Apr 17, 2023 | news-hub
An asteroid passes by Earth in this ESA illustration. Credit: ESA/P. Carril HELSINKI — China has selected near-Earth object 2019 VL5 for a combined asteroid deflection and observation test to launch 2025. The mission will use a Long March 3B rocket and carry...
by OGL News | Apr 16, 2023 | news-hub
An Electron rocket carrying two Capella Space satellites lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia, March 16. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab has shifted a pair of Electron launches of NASA storm-monitoring cubesats from Virginia to New...
by OGL News | Apr 15, 2023 | news-hub
The Ariane 5 launching ESA’s JUICE mission rolled out to the launch pad April 11. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique vidéo du CSG/P.Baudon WASHINGTON — Europe’s first mission to Jupiter is ready to launch on the next to last flight of the Ariane 5 on...
