US Official: US, China Plan to Meet on Civil Space in Autumn, Voice of America “Kevin O’Connell, director of the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Commerce Department, said U.S. companies were voicing growing concern about artificial pricing offered by Chinese competitors and the forced transfer of intellectual property. He said the U.S. government was “greatly worried” about such reports, and what appeared to be Beijing’s different understanding of […]
NASA’s Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life, NASA “NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. … Titan is an analog to the very early Earth, and can provide clues […]
NASA Selects Flying Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life, NASA “NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon.”
Liftoff of @SpaceX Falcon Heavy on the #STP2 mission. #AdAstra Frank Sietzen pic.twitter.com/PgRwtvEGew — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 25, 2019
Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels On Mars “This week, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover found a surprising result: the largest amount of methane ever measured during the mission — about 21 parts per billion units by volume (ppbv). One ppbv means that if you take a volume of air on Mars, one billionth of the volume of air is methane. The finding came from the rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars […]
Raspberry Pi used to steal data from Nasa lab, BBC “An audit report reveals the gadget was used to take about 500MB of data. It said two of the files that were taken dealt with the international transfer of restricted military and space technology. The attacker who used the device to hack the network went undetected for about 10 months. The malicious hacker won access to the Jet Propulsion Lab […]
IMHO @Neal148409276 @JimBridenstine If #Artemis supporters want to reach a broader audience then they need to shout/talk/whisper smarter than is currently being done & they need to stop talking to each other & start talking to people they have never spoken to before about space. https://t.co/of5vRwfxYD — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 21, 2019
Just as @NASA was directed to speed up lunar landing plans for #Artemis by @VP Pence sources report that OMB is trying to find ways to kill Gateway. That would suggest a more direct lunar architecture is preferred by the White House – or at least some people there. #Moon2024 pic.twitter.com/js7neVRfVB — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) June 20, 2019
NASA commercial Crew Program: Schedule Uncertainty Persists for Start of Operational Missions to the International Space “As of May 2019, both contractors had delayed certification nine times, equating to more than 2 years from their original contracts (see figure). This includes several delays since GAO last reported in July 2018. … NASA’s ability to process certification data packages for its two contractors continues to create uncertainty about the timing of […]
Blood and Money, Wayne Hale “We must have a clear-eyed appreciation for the risk involved in space exploration. Flying to the moon will not be much safer in 2024 than it was in 1969. Exploration always comes with risk, and with some regularity exploration risk is realized. The real cost of Artemis will be written in blood. Face that fact. This may be considered a poor time to bring this […]