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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) for astronauts to travel on the surface of the moon will be developed in a joint venture announced by Lockheed...
China launched Tianhe-1, the first and main module of a permanent orbiting space station called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace 天 宫), on April 29. Two additional science modules (Wentian and Mengtian) will follow in 2022 in a series of missions that will complete the station and allow it to start operations. While the station is not China’s first – the country has already launched two – the modular design is new. It replicates the International Space Station (ISS), from which China was excluded. There are many reasons for China to invest in this costly and technologically challenging proj...
Last Updated: Elon Musk Backs 'city On Mars, Permanent Base On Moon', Wants To Be 'multi-planet Species' “We don’t want to be one of those single planet species, we want to be a multi-planet species,” Space X CEO Elon Musk said post Crew-2's launch. Image Credits: Pixabey/AP “We don’t want to be one of those single planet species, we want to be a multi-planet species,” Space X CEO Elon Musk said on April 23 following the launch of the Crew-2 mission. Many times in the past, the tech billionaire has expressed his desire to establish a permanent human presence on the red planet...
Comments Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk has sought to not only land the first woman on the Moon but also the first person of colour under the Artemis programme. The Artemis III mission is expected to launch the first woman and next man to the Moon in 2024. The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Administration submitted to Congress on Friday the President's priorities for fiscal year 2022 discretionary spending. "The President's discretionary request increases NASA's ability to better understand Earth and further monitor and predict the impacts of climate change. It also gives us the necessary r...
Tech Digest daily round up: Facebook to allow you to turn off algorithm Facebook is to allow users to turn off the algorithm powering its News Feed and control the order in which items appear amid growing calls for algorithmic transparency. The company will also provide more context on suggested content by expanding the “Why am I seeing this?” tab, as well as letting users control who can comment on their posts. It comes ahead of the first draft of the UK’s new Online Safety Bill, which is likely to include powers for Ofcom to audit how social media companies’ algorithms work. Algor...