space exploration

It looks as if control of Voyager 1 has been lost. NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1 A fix may be found but no great hope is held. However, not a bad record for fifty-year old technology. 15 billion miles!

And in other news! The Perseverance Rover has Lost its Pet Rock Fifty flights for Ingenuity. They planned for 5.

Going to Mars gets all the attention but what if we wanted to do a manned mission to Ceres? Just how hard would that be? It would seem to me that it would be a good way to test out a lot of the equipment for an eventual Mars mission but on a destination that would be much easier to land on. Also...

The company developing a new type of hybrid jet/rocket engine has announced that it has successfully completed initial testing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20510112 Hopefully, this means that the proposed Skylon spaceplane is a step nearer to becoming reality. 3bkjiGGy0gc

I was wondering what would have become of the asteroid that struck Jupiter in 2009. Does it now form part of Jupiter's rocky core? Or was it vaporised in the atmosphere? Which lead me to: Could one theoretically fly a spaceship into Jupiter or Saturn, skim around their rocky cores and emerge...

And by "successful" I mean a man or woman will walk on the surface of Mars and safely return back to the mother planet.

Many are despondent that NASA doesn't seem to have anything to do for the foreseeable future. Pretty much all we know is what they aren't doing not going back to the moon not building rockets that can just get people into orbit not operating the existing shuttles not building anything that can...

Buzz was on Newsnight a few days ago, talking about the moon, and the exploration of space. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8131880.stm Time and again, space exploration comes up against the same argument: 'Why should we spend so much on space when we don't spend nearly enough...

Five years and still going! Yaaaay NASA! :D NASA's Mars Rovers Still Making Tracks

BBC And this story doesn't even get the top slot. How far we have come.