Jakarta – The moon will be the seventh continent for Earthlings. This place is the only ‘continent’ whose wealth and resources have not been conquered and exploited. This idea, which was formulated more than half a century ago in the Soviet Union (Russia considered Eurasia, aka Europe and Asia, as one continent), was revived with … Read more
Jakarta – Almost every country that has a space program, is vying towards Moon and jockeying for a spot on the Moon’s south pole. Most recently, India managed to land a spacecraft there, on Wednesday (23/8). India made history as the fourth country to successfully land on the Moon after the US, the Soviet Union … Read more
NASA and SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission successfully took off this morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, towards the International Space Station (ISS), where the crew will perform various experiments and replace Crew-6. The take-off of the Endurance spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center took place, as scheduled, at 3:27 am today (8:27 am in Lisbon), and … Read more
His name is Andreas Mogensen, he is 46 years old and he was the first Danish astronaut trained by the European Space Agency (ESA). With a master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering at Imperial College London, he spent a semester at Instituto Superior Técnico (in Lisbon) in 1999, under the Erasmus program. Readers are the strength … Read more
Death on the Moon and Mars American space medicine doctor Emmanuel Urquieta, who is working on finding new ways to keep astronauts healthy, told what the astronauts would do if someone from the team died during the mission. If someone dies in low Earth orbit, such as aboard the International Space Station, the crew will … Read more
Jakarta – Nearly 200 remains, including the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, will be part of the maiden space mission to permanently orbit the Sun as their final resting place. This space mission will be launched by Celestis, a company from Houston, Texas, United States which has been promoting funeral services in space since … Read more
LTT9779 b shouldn’t exist, but here it is, tearing through the universe in a giant metal suit. Back in 2020, NASA’s TESS mission discovered the exoplanet registered as LT9779 b (planet outside the solar system), which orbits the star LT9779 about 264 light-years from Earth. The celestial body moves in such a close orbit to … Read more
Jakarta – United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced their latest mission plan send spaceship. No longer to the Moon or Mars like other countries that are also exploring space, the UAE wants to explore the belt asteroid main Solar System. Earlier in 2020, the oil-rich country’s space exploration mission successfully launched the Hope spacecraft to Mars … Read more
Jakarta – Over the past few weeks, a large balloon has appeared to circle the Southern Hemisphere in the upper atmosphere. People who saw it worried that the strange balloon was a spy. The big floating bubble is actually NASA’s newest telescope, the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT). Instead of spying on people below, … Read more
Jakarta – Artemis mission astronauts who will land and set foot on the Moon will explore a new area of our natural satellite that has not been touched before, namely the south pole of the Moon. At the Moon’s south pole, there is a crater in permanent shadow which will have major implications for permanent … Read more