All things Space
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China's Mars rover may never wake up because of Martian dust
https://www.space.com/dust-preventing-china-mars-rover-zhurong-waking-
up
China’s Chang’e 8 Mission Will Bring 3D Printers to the Moon
https://www.extremetech.com/aerospace/chinas-change-8-mission-will-bri
ng-3d-printers-to-the-moon
House Science Committee held a Fiscal Year 2024 Proposed Budget Request for NASA hearing today. According to committee chair Frank Lucas’ prepared statement: “Because of these overflowing costs, NASA has been forced to make difficult choices in its science portfolio. It postponed a selected mission to Venus, indefinitely paused a flagship heliophysics mission, and delayed launch of an important asteroid detection spacecraft. If this trend continues, then NASA may have to make difficult decisions to postpone or cancel future missions. This is unacceptable and we must do better.” Bill Nelson
https://science.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=47A75C92-59F5-4DB0
-93B6-BB28DD735685
,
https://republicans-science.house.gov/2023/4/chairman-frank-lucas-open
ing-statement-at-full-committee-hearing-on
Two launches, four satellites, one mission - to monitor hurricanes and extreme storms to better predict their intensity and save lives.
https://twitter.com/RocketLab/status/1646968461162344448
'Thank you to our 1.5M+ customers around the world'
https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/1654673695007457280
Bowie, almost on his death bed
regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s.
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SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say
https://www.space.com/starlink-electronics-hum-disturbs-radio-astronom
y
At Jupiter, JUICE and Clipper Will Work Together in Hunt for Life
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-jupiter-juice-and-clippe
r-will-work-together-in-hunt-for-life/
A new European mission is the first of two spacecraft—with the other coming from NASA—that will hunt for signs of habitability on Jupiter’s icy moons
NASA is developing a snake-like robot to slither through a Saturn moon in search of life
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-snake-robot-eels-saturn-moon-encelad
us-search-of-life/
Moon risks rise as U.S.-China don't communicate in space
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/china-us-split-space-moon
Mining the Moon to lift off within ten years — NASA
https://www.mining.com/mining-the-moon-to-lift-off-within-ten-years-na
sa/
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Almost banned by you tube, MegaProjects, 'VisualPolitik' maybe he should back up on Odysee, Gettr, Minds, Rumble or Bitchute?
Simon Whistler, Megaproject channel, Decoding the Unknown, Top Tens or Today-I-Found-Out, English YouTube personality who currently lives in Prague in the Czech Republic
The US Senate slashed the budget for NASA's ambitious mission to return soil and rock samples from Mars' surface.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/the-senate-just-lobbed-a-tactica
l-nuke-at-nasas-mars-sample-return-program/
NASA had asked for $949 million to support its Mars Sample Return mission, or MSR, in fiscal year 2024. In its proposed budget for the space agency, the Senate offered just $300 million and threatened to take that amount away.
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JWST might have spotted the first dark matter stars
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-might-have-spotted-the
-first-dark-matter-stars/
ESA has a new space telescope a European international mission, 'Euclid' space telescope
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/europes-euclid-telescope-launche
d-to-study-the-dark-universe/
Dark matter has never been directly measured, but scientists have concluded that it makes up a little more than a quarter of the Universe. Dark energy, on the other hand, constitutes about 70 percent of the cosmos, and according to models, is responsible for accelerating the Universe’s expansion.
Set Fermi Drake speculation?
Quote:
'The Dark Forest Theory Explains Why We Haven't Found Aliens Yet – And It Is Pretty Terrifying'
Blog
https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/07/the-dark-forest-theory-expl
ains-why-we.html
China's Zhurong rover discovers Mars' Ice Age ended drastically 400,000 years ago
https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-zhurong-rover-mars-i
ce-age
Video of water in a glass on China’s space station is scientifically sound, not proof of ‘deception’
https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/video-of-water-in-a-glass-on-chinas-s
pace-station-is-scientifically-sound-not-proof-of-deception-00000188e8dbd582afdefffbdf660000
India on the Moon? Chandrayaan-3
https://twitter.com/isro/status/1682029955746770944
ISRO moon mission Chandrayaan-3 second orbit-raising manoeuvre successful
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/isro-moon-mission-chandrayaan-3-seco
nd-orbit-raising-manoeuvre-successful/article67089983.ece
Russia Launched Soyuz Rocket as Part of Commercial Spaceflight Mission—Back to Normal?
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/293105/20230627/russia-launched-soy
uz-rocket-part-commercial-spaceflight-mission.htm
While the US and other nations still denounce Russia's continued action against Ukraine and sanctions are still up, three countries have restarted their ties and commissioned the Soyuz rocket
'Russia's Space Program Appears to Be Completely Falling Apart'
https://futurism.com/russia-space-program-falling-apart
Senate puts NASA on notice over Mars mission
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-puts-nasa-notice-over-100000280.html
What is going on?
https://www.planetary.org/articles/whats-going-on-with-mars-sample-ret
urn
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NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag—and it’s colossal
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/the-mars-sample-return-mission-i
s-starting-to-give-nasa-sticker-shock/
"It is better to not do it than to torch the whole science community."
U.S. Senate threatens to cancel Mars Sample Return
https://www.planetary.org/articles/the-senate-threatens-to-cancel-mars
-sample-return
Senate puts NASA on notice over Mars mission
https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-puts-nasa-notice-over-100000280.html
Appropriators also say they have deep doubts about whether NASA can complete the mission, known as Mars Sample Return (MSR).
“The Committee has significant concerns about the technical challenges facing MSR and potential further impacts on confirmed missions, even before MSR has completed preliminary design review,” the Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee wrote in an appropriations bill outlining the funding for 2024.
It further said it would rescind the $300 million allocated for the mission if the agency cannot guarantee that overall cost will not exceed $5.3 billion. NASA estimates that the mission’s development costs, which were originally $4.4 billion, have soared to more than $9 billion.
Notably, this price tag only represents the cost of developing and testing the mission’s components. It does not include launch costs or operating costs for the mission’s planned five-year timeframe. It also doesn’t include construction of any new sample-receiving facility that may be required to handle the rock and soil samples.
Is Mars Sample Return in jeopardy? US Senate slashes NASA budget
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mars-sample-return-us-se
nate-slashes-nasa-budget
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Nasa briefly loses contact with ISS after power outage and relies on backup systems for first time
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/26/iss-power-outage-nasa-
contact-international-space-station-backup-systems
Astronomers found an ultra-hot exoplanet that acts like a mirror, reflecting 80% of the light shone on it by its host star
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_sh
ows_scorching_exoplanet_acts_like_a_mirror
China’s Landspace reaches orbit with methane-powered Zhuque-2 rocket
https://spacenews.com/chinas-landspace-reaches-orbit-with-methane-powe
red-zhuque-2-rocket/
Russia’s Space Program Reels After Putin’s Ukraine Invasion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-25/russia-s-space-prog
ram-reels-after-putin-s-ukraine-invasion
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UFOs an 'open secret' in military and seen all the time, historic hearing to be told
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/ufos-open-secret-military-seen-3
0556161
What is a UAP? What the acronym means, why they're different from UFOs, and what a Congressional hearing revealed
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uap-heres-acronym-means-why-17582605
1.html
As I have been saying: the US Government does not have a single position on UAP.
We are watching warring factions. That’s why everything looks so weird.
The reports we have seen before are bizarre because they are akin to forcing rival street gangs to issue joint statements.
https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1685046265468305408
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A rocket with a lunar landing craft blasts off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years
https://apnews.com/article/russia-launch-moon-mission-50-years-286bf3d
8d3b30790591efc113438e216
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