Scientists surround the fine guidance sensor for the James Webb Space Telescope at the David Florida Laboratory in 2009. (Canadian Space Agency) The Canadian Space Agency has confirmed a west Ottawa spacecraft laboratory it calls “Canada’s national facility for spacecraft assembly [and] integration” is closing at the end of March 2025. The David Florida Laboratory officially … Read more
The first private spacecraft to softly land on the moon carries a Canadian instrument that will test the possibility of building an observatory at the Lunar south pole. The phone booth-sized lander by Intuitive Machines, named Odysseus, launched on Feb. 15 and touched down on Thursday near a small impact crater about 300 kilometers from the moon’s south … Read more
I’ve been very fortunate as a documentary and adventure series filmmaker, having the opportunity to travel all over Canada and the world doing what I love. But my latest project sent me on a mission to a lunar landscape in Canada’s Far North — one of the most difficult places I’ve ever had to reach. … Read more
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has again given a glimpse into his ambitious plan to colonise Mars. Musk revealed his “game plan” in a post on X. He said that he would be sending one million people to Mars. However, he did not give any additional details about the plan. He was responding to a tweet … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nasa’s Perseverance rover has provided exciting data suggesting that a Martian crater may have once contained a lake, possibly containing fossils of microbial life. The rover’s recent findings, published in Science Advances, indicate that Jezero Crater was once a thriving aquatic environment. Images captured by the rover’s underground radar suggest the presence of … Read more
Children gathered at First Nations University of Canada in Regina Thursday watched in awe as astronaut Jeremy Hansen unveiled the patch, designed by an Indigenous artist, that he will wear as the first Canadian to fly to the moon. Hansen, who is from London, Ont., is one of four crew members set to travel around the moon during … Read more
A great space success story comes to an end. And SpaceX is at it again with a busy week of launches. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the … Read more
Last week, the Ingenuity Mars helicopter made its final flight, far exceeding the expectations of a mission that began nearly three years ago. Now, NASA may be looking at a fixed-wing aircraft to hit the red planet’s skies next. In 2021 the Perseverance rover landed on Mars carrying a small helicopter under its belly named … Read more
Ingenuity was supposed to make five flights on Mars over a 30-day period. But it went on to spend nearly three years on the red planet covering 14 times as much ground as initially planned.NASA‘s little helicopter on Mars, “Ingenuity,” has taken its last flight, the US space agency announced on Thursday.“It is bittersweet that … Read more
LOS ANGELES: Groundbreaking findings from NASA‘s Perseverance rover have confirmed the existence of ancient lake sediments in the Jerezo Crater on Mars, indicating that the Red Planet once hosted significant bodies of water. This discovery, published in Science Advances, reinforces theories of a potentially habitable ancient Mars.The research, spearheaded by teams from UCLA and the … Read more
