Today In Space
Last Updated: Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024, 11:14 AM PST
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Leonard David
• Leonard David
China Moon Lander to Include Multi-tasking Robot
By Leonard David: Technologists in China have the go-ahead to engineer a multi-task Moon robot for use in the country’s Chang’e-8 lunar landing mission, now set for launch around 2028.
Space.com
• Jamie Carter
Mars opposition 2025: How to see the Red Planet at its biggest and brightest
By Space.com: Mars is on the cusp of becoming bigger and brighter than at any point since 2022 as it comes into alignment with Earth and the sun.
Space.com
• Keith Cooper
How 2024 brought us deeper into the world of particle physics
By Space.com: From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be.
NASA Spaceflight
• Martin Smith
Europe’s future in space: Vega cadence to increase, HyImpulse’s hybrid rocket
By NASA Spaceflight: European companies in the space sector have been developing novel technology to find their unique….
Business Insider
• Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Earth's orbit is so crowded that space traffic controllers issue more than 1,000 collision warnings per day
By Business Insider: Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
US Senate NASA bill focuses on commercial space stations, science mission overruns
By SpaceNews.com: A NASA authorization bill introduced in the Senate in the final days of the current Congress irected NASA to accelerate work on commercial space stations.
Universe Today
• Paul M. Sutter
James Webb’s Big Year for Cosmology
By Universe Today: The James Webb Space Telescope was designed and built to study the early universe, and hopefully revolutionary our understanding of cosmology. Two years after its launch, it’s doing just that.
