The US Senate has just adopted a bill allowing, among other things, the release of ten billion dollars for the development of private crewed lunar landers for The NASA. Blue Origin, the company of Jeff Bezos, could be the one to benefit from this new budget boost. Previously in the Artemis program…

Led by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone, Relativity Space continues to appeal to investors. The company has just raised $650 million in a new round of funding to support the development of its Terran-R, a fully reusable, 3D-printed launcher. Amazing Growth Relativity Space is a young company led by two a

Perseverance recently embarked on its first real science campaign, just over 100 days after landing in Jezero Crater on February 18. The rover will focus on two study areas and collect its first Mars samples for the future return mission to Earth. We hit the road Since its arrival on February 18, t

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just confirmed the development of its EnVision mission, which targets the planet Venus. This project will complement the other two announced by NASA last week. More than ever, Venus is back in the spotlight. Long neglected, Venus will once again receive visitors.

China deployed a Long March 2F launcher on Wednesday to send its first manned capsule to the main module of their new station. Its launch is imminent. A new manned mission The last time taikonauts flew into space was in 2016 as part of the Shenzhou-11 mission. Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng and Ch

The spacecraft Resilience has just returned to Earth, carrying with it four astronauts from the ISS, that another flight is looming:the first mission entirely civilian from SpaceX. A great first After hanging on for 167 days to the International Space Station (ISS), a record, the Resilience capsule

Seven months after landing on the asteroid Bennu to try to collect samples, the American probe OSIRIS-REx has just started its return trip. In his luggage, a precious cargo likely to enlighten us on the formation of the solar system. Four years after its launch from Florida, the OSIRIS-REX probe ca

Voyager 1 instruments recently detected the faint and constant humming of plasma in interstellar space. Its a first. This work, signed by researchers at Cornell University, was published in the journal Nature Astronomy. In interstellar space, far from the Kuiper belt, the American probe Voyager 1 h

Chinas Yutu 2 rover is about to wake up on the far side of the Moon, after enduring another freezing night. The vehicle has already traveled more than 700 meters since arriving there a little over two years ago. On January 3, 2019, China made history by delivering the first smooth rover to the far

A team of researchers announces that they have identified liquid water rich in carbon dioxide inside a meteorite formed 4.6 billion years ago years. This discovery suggests that its parent asteroid formed beyond Jupiters orbit before closing in on the inner solar system. Water, in any form, is ubiq

SpaceX recently released a possible flight plan for the first orbital launch of its Starship spacecraft. During this highly anticipated test, the prototype will aim for an altitude of 115 kilometers before landing off the northwest coast of Kauai. And surprise:this test could take place this summer!

After trying to poach Gwynne Shotwell, the current president and COO of SpaceX to run Blue Origin in 2016, Jeff Bezos finally turned to Bob Smith. A wise choice? The past four years lead us to think not. The book Amazon Unbound:Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire , signed by American jo

Ongoing analysis to resolve an issue observed in the last two Ariane 5 launches could (further) delay the launch of NASAs James Webb Telescope. The last time Ariane 5 flew was in August 2020, to deliver two communications satellites and Northrop Grummans Mission Expansion Vehicle 2 into a geostati

The Zhurong lander and rover of the Tianwen-1 mission, Chinas first interplanetary expedition, landed on Mars a few days ago . The size of a golf cart, the vehicle will collect data on Martian groundwater. It will also be about mapping the geological structure of the planet. China, a major player i

According to an astronomers estimates, it would take at least five years to try to prevent an asteroid from hitting Earth. Others, more pessimistic, evoke at least ten years. But do we even have the means to save time? A few weeks ago, the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASAs Jet Propulsio

The private company Space Adventures has been organizing its two new civilian missions on board the ISS since 2009. The first will involve a Russian actress and director, the second a Japanese billionaire and his production assistant. Space Adventures is an American company specializing in space to

Belgian company Space Applications Services is developing technology to produce oxygen on the Moon. The launch of a prototype is planned for 2025 as part of an ESA demonstration mission. You havent missed it:the United States, but also China and Russia are planning to settle permanently on the Moon

20 years ago, NASA referenced space debris in low orbit that was just thermal blanket lost by an astronaut. And yet, ufologists and other followers of conspiracy theories have estimated that it was an object of extraterrestrial origin approximately 13,000 years old. Tesla in contact with aliens? In

A NASA team is working on the development of a possible sample return mission to Titan, Saturns large moon. Such a project, like the future Mars mission jointly organized by NASA and ESA, could lead to the discovery of extraterrestrial life forms. A moon with great potential Titan is a fascinating

Recently, debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket fell to Earth, fortunately without causing any damage or casualties. If this debris had destroyed buildings and caused deaths, what would have been Chinas responsibility? Rocket debris:more fear than harm The Long March 5B rocket incident kept