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Permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s poles may preserve water ice that future crews could turn into oxygen and hydrogen-based rocket propellant, potentially supporting lunar bases and eventual Mars expeditions. NASA and IBM have now released an AI model trained on roughly two million lunar images spanning more than 30 data layers—and in testing, it outperformed other leading models at mapping where polar ice is most likely to remain stable.
15+ hour, 11+ min ago (1192+ words) NASA and IBM's open lunar model reduced error by roughly 22 percent on an ice-prospectivity benchmark, while predicting a model-derived stability map rather than measured ice deposits....
In 1962, Canada’s first satellite went into orbit with a planned life of 1 year — Alouette sent useful data for more than 10 years, carrying long antennas that had been packed for launch by rolling the metal strips up like a carpenter’s measuring tape.
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (529+ words) Alouette I exceeded its one-year design life and used antennas that unrolled from compact coils into long tubular structures. Its radio observations left an enduring archive....
In 2008, a team hauled 1,478 lunar data tapes and four obsolete drives to NASA Ames to recover pictures from the 1960s — and the laboratory where they restored those original views of the Moon in greater detail was an abandoned McDonald’s restaurant.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (309+ words) The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project restored old tape drives inside a former McDonald’s to retrieve detail preserved in recordings from the 1960s....
China's water-hunting Moon mission was hours from launch on Sunday when the countdown stopped — the next window may not come until 2027
2+ week, 4+ day ago (571+ words) A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we…...
In 2026 NASA flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years, and in almost the same weeks the White House proposed some of the deepest budget cuts in the agency's history, most of them aimed at its science programmes
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (454+ words) A triumph in orbit collided with a threat to the very science that built NASA's reputation, exposing a deeper crisis beneath the headlines....
Titan's air is four times thicker than ours and its gravity a seventh as strong, which means a human being there could in principle fly under their own muscle power — strap on wings, run a few paces, and flap
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (221+ words) A human could actually fly on Saturn's largest moon—if the physics of thin gravity and thick atmosphere align just right....
You would expect astronauts to shrug off something as ordinary as plain travel sickness, but no: in fact most feel queasy for their first days in orbit, a common bout called space adaptation syndrome, and even veteran pilots get it
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (569+ words) Even the most elite astronauts can't train away the nausea that hits most of them upon reaching orbit—a reminder that the human body has limits no amount of preparation can overcome. By Mal James · Editorial process Published July 30, 2026 There…...
Jet pilots had a word for the feeling of coming loose from the earth at high altitude, and when two researchers put the question to 137 of them in the mid-1950s, 35 per cent said they had felt it and two-thirds of that group had never told another pilot
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (617+ words) Clark and Graybiel wrote the pilots' word down, counted how many men knew it, and found that the thing most of them would not discuss was also the thing a few of them said made them feel like kings....
Phobos circles Mars so quickly that it completes more than three orbits per Martian day. Because it outruns the planet’s rotation, it rises in the west and sets in the east—the only known moon whose orbit is shorter than its planet’s day
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1096+ words) A moon that rises in the west and sets in the east has just been caught in a cosmic alignment that reveals the violent geometry of the inner solar system....
Before John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, he made one unusual demand: that a mathematician named Katherine Johnson check the computer's numbers by hand, saying that if she agreed they were right, he was ready to fly
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (333+ words) In 1962, an astronaut preparing for humanity's most ambitious journey placed his faith in a Black mathematician with a pencil and paper, not the machines everyone else trusted....