Tag Archives: Nasa

NASA Chief Bridenstine to leave under Biden administration

Roscosmos enters space movie race with NASA

Despite the absence of any triple-digit million rounds, we still saw over $100 million of financing activity in the space sector in October 2020. This sum is excluding public sector awards, principally the roughly $370 million to 14 companies that were announced under NASA’s Tipping Point program.

Who’s first, who's next? In the new round of the international race to the Red Planet, China expects to land its Tianwen-1 mission on Mars in May next year, the news agency Reuters reported from Beijing, citing a Chinese space official.

ESA participates in NASA’s Artemis and lunar Gateway

SpaceWatch.Global is pleased to present the 14th episode in our podcast series The Space Cafe Podcast: Dr. James Schwartz - we need to rethink everything. Admittedly, Elons rocket launches and landings are fascinating.  They have a magical attraction. The same applies, of course, to future missions like Artemis. Seeing people on the moon again has its charm. But, do we really have to do all this? What's the point in going to space? To ask such unpleasant questions is the job of the passionate space nerd and space philosopher James Schwartz. He puts his finger on those spots that others ignore. Now and then fascinating ideas surface in this process. 

NASA detects water on the sunny side of the Moon

The international community has struggled for a number of years with the issue of how to govern a human settlement on the Moon and deal with the management of any resources. Previous attempts have been through painstakingly negotiated international treaties.

NASA's Osiris Rex touches asteroid Bennu to collect dust

NASA supports Nokia to deploy cellular network on the Moon