Julian Dossett

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Julian Dossett

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Composite image of the moon created using data gathered by the joint NASA-DoD Clementine mission in 1994. | Credit: NASAAfter launching a pair of satellites last year that failed to reach the right orbit around the moon, China's Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) came up with a novel tactic — using a gravity "slingshot" to get the satellites in the correct spot.

1 week ago | space.com | Julian Dossett

After launching a pair of satellites last year that failed to reach the right orbit around the moon, China's Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) came up with a novel tactic — using a gravity "slingshot" to get the satellites in the correct spot. China launched the satellites, named DRO-A and DRO-B, in March 2024 atop a Long March-2C rocket, according to the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN).

1 week ago | space.com | Julian Dossett

Spruce trees retain ancient memories of their environment and communicate with one other in the hours preceding a solar eclipse, a new international study suggests. "We now see the forest not as a mere collection of individuals, but as an orchestra of phase correlated plants," Alessandro Chiolerio, Italian Institute of Technology and University of the West of England, and the study co-leader, said in a statement.

1 week ago | newmexicomagazine.org | Julian Dossett

AS I WALK THROUGH SHADOWS CAST by golden-age behemoths at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, it’s easy to imagine the awe these marvels inspired in the early days. Even now, more than a half-century later, the yellow X-7 supersonic rocket and 86-foot-tall Little Joe II—the largest rocket ever launched in New Mexico—seem otherworldly. From the museum entrance, I can see the city of Alamogordo stretching across the Tularosa Basin. The five-story building looks like a tall cube of glass.

2 weeks ago | space.com | Julian Dossett

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is looking for a private company to build spacecraft to orbit the moon and search for water. A program solicitation that DARPA released on April 14 outlines the plan for the LASSO (Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter) program, with the goal of developing a system of one or several affordable satellites.