by Gordon Roesler | Mar 31, 2026 | News
Recently NASA has announced a major change to its plans for lunar exploration and habitation. It has cancelled the Lunar Gateway, and instead is focusing on making human presence permanent. NASA has assigned a program manager for the surface habitat, Carlos...
by Gordon Roesler | Mar 12, 2026 | News
On Earth, robots conduct rescue missions quite frequently. They search for survivors in collapsed buildings, bring supplies to remote locations, and provide information on the conditions during disasters. Now for the first time, a robotic spacecraft is being readied...
by Gordon Roesler | Apr 13, 2025 | News
It appears that Jared Isaacman will be the new NASA Administrator. In his confirmation hearing, he indicated that he would commit NASA to a human mission to Mars, but also evaluate the potential for continuous human presence on the Moon. I would not have expected him...
by Gordon Roesler | Jan 20, 2025 | News
[Illustration of the 1997 ETS-VII autonomous docking mission. Credit: JAXA] With its SpaDex mission, India has demonstrated the ability to couple two satellites together in space without astronauts. You can read a brief discussion here:...
by Gordon Roesler | Aug 26, 2021 | News
Astroscale, the international space debris cleanup, has successfully demonstrated capture of a simulated debris object in low Earth orbit. The object has been equipped with a special capture plate that matches the magnetic capture device on the ELSA-D spacecraft. The...
by Gordon Roesler | Jun 16, 2021 | News
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its 31st summit meeting on Monday, June 14. As usual, the summit concluding with the issue of a very lengthy communiqué, covering all sorts of security and defense issues. A link to the complete communiqué is below....
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