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NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed just 6.1 million kilometres from the solar surface on Dec. 24, flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona, on …
Read More »SpaceX launches rescue mission for NASA astronauts stuck on International Space Station
SpaceX launched a rescue mission for two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year. The capsule rocketed toward orbit to fetch the test pilots whose Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth empty earlier this month because …
Read More »Satellite built by N.B. students not responding a week after entering Earth’s orbit
Hundreds of post-secondary students in New Brunswick are patiently waiting for a call from Satellite Violet. The student-built project took more than five years to develop at campuses across the province and is not communicating as expected. The satellite was delivered by a rocket to the International Space Station in …
Read More »How origami can help in space exploration
It’s an ancient form of art, but now origami is providing modern solutions in the fields of space, engineering, mathematics and medicine. For one Canadian aerospace engineer, origami and its ability to turn something very large into something very small is helping to unlock secrets about the universe. According to …
Read More »Ontario professor part of NASA’s geology team for Artemis III moon mission
Gordon Osinski has spent the last two decades studying craters left behind by meteorites. The analysis of planetary geology has taken the Ontario university professor around the world and will now see him work on the NASA team that will develop the lunar surface science plan for the first people …
Read More »Total solar eclipse to arc across North America in April 2024
One year from now, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, and millions of Canadians will be taking it in. On April 8, 2024, the eclipse will be visible from Mexico to Canada, as it treks from below the Baja California peninsula to the Atlantic time zone, swinging …
Read More »Russia tells NASA it will remain with International Space Station until at least 2028
Russian space officials told their U.S. counterparts that Moscow expects to remain on the International Space Station (ISS) at least until their own outpost in orbit is built in 2028, NASA’s space operations chief told Reuters. The assurance on Tuesday from Russia came after the newly appointed head of its …
Read More »NASA Captures Image Of Interaction Between Doomed Stars 15,000 Light-Years Away
NASA’s Hubble telescope has shared a spectacular image of an interaction between two “doomed” stars which created a sort of diamond necklace in space, saying that the Sun-like stars were separated by only several million miles and so appeared as a single bright dot in the centre of the image. …
Read More »NASA wants to go farther and faster for fourth Mars helicopter flight
When NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed its third flight in April, its ground team met the last of the three objectives needed to call the technology demo project a success. That’s why for its fourth test flight, the Ingenuity team wants to push the machine’s performance envelope on Mars by flying …
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