It’s been another exciting week for space that included a fourth successful test flight for the Mars Helicopter, a SpaceX splashdown for Crew-1, and the delivery of the biggest rocket stage NASA has ever built. Learn more below! Ingenuity Exceeds Expectations & Gets a New Mission The Little Mars Helicopter That Could (aka Ingenuity) completed …
This week heralded another first for humankind: we made oxygen on another planet. Now, it was only enough for 10 minutes of breathable air (or 5 grams), but this is another incredible milestone for the future of space travel. While the super-cool rotocopter, Ingenuity, has gotten much of the fanfare of late, the Mars Oxygen …
There’s been a lot of exciting and interesting space news over the past week, so I thought I’d do a quick little recap to catch you up. Learn more below about the first flight on another planet, a supermassive black hole in M87, and more! The First Flight on Another Planet Ingenuity the rotocopter (nicknamed …
NASA will soon attempt to fly the first aircraft on another planet! The Ingenuity rotocopter, which weighs only 4lbs, is designed to prove that we can perform powered flight on another planet – one with a very thin atmosphere that is just 1% the density of Earth’s. To do so, its four-foot, carbon-fibre blades will …
The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to change our understanding of the universe. It will be the largest, most complex space telescope ever built, and is 100x more powerful than the Hubble Telescope! And, if you’ve seen the stunning images from Hubble, you’ll understand how improving on that seems almost unfathomable. As …
This blog is basically a Mars Rover fan account now. But, this is unprecedented footage from ANOTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, so I hope you stick along for the ride! Today, NASA released new video footage of Percy the Rover landing on Mars. This includes a flawless 70-foot parachute deployment (that opened in seven-tenths …
Well, we freaking did it! We landed another rover on Mars. In the most difficult landing site we’ve ever attempted, with the most complex rover humanity has ever assembled. And, in the days to come, we’ll get video and audio of the landing filmed from cameras and microphones onboard the vehicle. For now, we know …
In 8 days time, I will be – by name at least – an alien. That’s when the latest rover lands on Mars, and with it, a microchip containing over 10 million names from Earth. NASA’s Perseverance Rover, which took off in July of last year, is scheduled to touch down on February 18th at …
Virgin Orbit just pulled off the ultimate Transformers move: launching a rocket from a 747 and putting it into orbit. Which, is impressive, considering launching from a plane provides the ability to launch from virtually anywhere in the world – without needing a “spaceport.” As Wired writes: “If you want to launch something to the …
On December 21st, Jupiter and Saturn will converge in the evening sky to form a “Great Conjunction” – the likes of which hasn’t been in 397 years. Step outside 45 minutes after sunset, and look low on the Southwest horizon to see these two planets seemingly appear as one (there will be a mere 0.1° …