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Data Integrity, Not Cyber Attacks, Are What Most Worry Space Command’s Cyber Boss (Image Credit: airandspaceforces) Oct. 24, 2024 | By Shaun Waterman Share Article What keeps the digital warriors charged with fighting America’s wars in space awake at night isn’t cyber attacks per se, but more nebulous threats to the integrity of their data, […]
Artemis 2 astronauts train for emergencies with Orion spacecraft ahead of 2025 moon launch (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) In case of emergency on Earth, open the spacecraft door. The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion […]
30 years of polar climate data converted into menacing, 6-minute song (Image Credit: Space.com) A Japanese scientist has taken inspiration from the climate crisis to compose music that sounds as ominous as current forecasts of ecological breakdown. Hiroto Nagai, a geoenvironmental scientist and associate professor at Rissho University in Tokyo, compiled publicly available climate data […]
Watch comet ATLAS burn up as it flies into the sun (video) (Image Credit: Space.com) [embedded content] Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) is no more. On Monday (Oct. 28), the comet evaporated as it was heading toward perihelion, the closest point to the sun in its orbit. There were earlier hopes that the comet, officially designated […]
SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut released from hospital, returns to Houston (Image Credit: Space.com) The NASA astronaut who was hospitalized for a night after the splashdown of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission has been released and is doing well, according to the agency. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “Endeavour” returned to Earth on Friday morning (Oct. 25) off the […]
Watch Astronauts Give a Rare Tour of China’s Luxurious Space Station (Image Credit: futurism-com) [embedded content] We’ve never seen this much of the station before. Space Cribs Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station have given us a rare glimpse into what life is like roughly 260 miles above the surface. As seen […]
NASA Astronauts Hospitalized After Splashdown in Rare Incident (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) All four Crew-8 astronauts underwent medical evaluations at a Florida hospital Florida after returning from space on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon, and one astronaut was forced to stay overnight due to an unspecified medical issue. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission splashed down at 3:29 […]
Jaw-Dropping Report Reveals Causes of Arecibo Telescope Collapse (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed due to a combination of decayed zinc in the telescope’s cable sockets and previous damage from Hurricane Maria, according to a report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The massive radio telescope’s […]
Europe’s bold ‘Explore 2040’ campaign aims to get astronauts to the moon and Mars (Image Credit: Space.com) The European Space Agency (ESA) is charting a bold course for the future, aiming to solidify Europe’s position in space exploration through the “Explore 2040” initiative. Josef Aschbacher, director-general of ESA, emphasized the need for Europe to increase […]
China wants to make its Tiangong space station bigger and better (Image Credit: Space.com) China has been operating its completed Tiangong orbital outpost for almost two years now — and is looking to expand its capabilities with new modules and spacecraft. The three-module, T-shaped Tiangong space station was fully assembled in November 2022, with the […]
