The Chang'e-4 mission, the fourth installment in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, has made some significant achievements since it launched in December of 2018. In January of 2019, the mission lander and its Yutu 2 (Jade Rabbit 2) rover became the first robotic explorers to achieve a soft landing on the far side of the Moon. Around the same time, it became the first mission to grow plants on the Moon (with mixed results ).
In the latest development, the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE) commenced operations after a year of orbiting the Moon. This instrument was mounted on the Queqiao communications satellite and consists of three 5-meter (16.4 ft) long monopole antennas that are sensitive to radio frequencies in the 80 kHz – 80 MHz range. With this instrument now active, Chang'e-4 has now entered into the next phase of its mission.
Many things are taking place:
The moon plays an imprtant role during buck season | Sports | register-herald.com
Thousands of orange-clad hunters hit the woods Monday with high hopes of laying eyes on a nice buck. The rut is in and the weather always plays a role in how many hunters make it out and how many bucks are taken during the first week.
There will be plenty of hunting stories to tell and the subject may vary, but it will all relate to deer hunting in one way or another. One topic that is often talked about is the moon phase. It is well known to hunters that during a full moon deer will move more during the nighttime hours and sometimes less during the daytime.
To the Moon 3 Coming in Late 2020 | COGconnected
Impostor Factory (which also might be To the Moon 3 , maybe?) is an upcoming adventure game from the developer behind the To the Moon series. According to the trailer posted below, the game is expected to come out in late 2020.
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The game’s Steam webpage gives some details about the story: It partly involves a man named Quincy who attends a mansion party and discovers a time machine in a bathroom. However, after finding the time machine, other people die and later “things get a little Lovecraftian and tentacles are involved.”
European Space Agency gets more funds, also for Moon mission
MADRID (AP) — The 22 member states of the European Space agency pledged Thursday to boost their funding to support more missions and research projects, including a new generation of satellites to monitor climate change.
The agency's director-general, Jan Woerner, said at the conclusion two-day ministerial meeting in Seville, Spain, that member states pledged a record three-year budget of 12.5 billion euros ($13.7 million) plus an additional 1.9 billion euros to cover operational costs and basic research in years four and five.
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Artemis: The multi-billion plan to land a woman on the moon | The National
Advance space suit engineer Kristine Davis (left) with lead engineer of the OCSS Dustin Gohmert wearing the new space suits
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YOU probably didn’t read earlier this week in the Brexit -mad Unionist media, but the UK has just quietly signed up to the €14 billion five year plan of the European Space Agency (ESA) which includes the real possibility of the first woman and the first European landing on the moon.
This being a Tory Government , the UK is not putting in as much as the Germans, French or Italians, and the UK space industry is fuming at that, but at least Britain is in there and will play some sort of a role in the very exciting Artemis programme being organised by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa).
A 42-Foot Asteroid Will Skim Earth Closer Than The Moon Today At 41,000 MPH
A tiny space rock is due to scrape past Earth today in what will be the closest asteroid approach in quite a while, NASA has announced.
Today’s celestial visitor is a near-Earth asteroid known as 2019 WJ4. The object doesn’t boast hefty proportions, as data from NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) only places it within a size range of between 18.3 feet and 42.6 feet in diameter. At the lower end of that size estimate, the asteroid is no bigger than an average-sized car.
50 Years On, Where Are the Surveyor 3 Moon Probe Parts Retrieved by Apollo 12? | Space
Fifty years ago, two astronauts became the world's first space archaeologists, of a sort, retrieving parts from a robotic probe that preceded them to the surface of the moon. Half a century later, where have those Surveyor 3 artifacts ended up today ?
Apollo 12 crewmates Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean achieved the first precise lunar touchdown on Nov. 19, 1969, landing within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. On their second of two moonwalks, Conrad and Bean ventured over to the robotic probe, which by then had been on the moon for two and a half years.
Expedition Titan turns Saturn’s moon into a mixed-reality thrill ride – GeekWire
The walk-through production is the latest showcase for Hyperspace XR , a startup-in-residence that's pioneering the frontiers of mixed reality at the science center.
That frontier is associated with other labels of immersive experiences, including virtual reality (MR), extended reality (XR) and augmented reality (AR). Hyperspace XR's brand of mixed reality involves creating a real-world environment — complete with walls, doorways and furnishings — that you experience in virtual reality with the aid of a headset.
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