Rocket Lab is known for launching tiny satellites into Earth orbit, but the company has big plans to venture deeper into space, with its first mission to the Moon set for next year. Thanks to a contract with NASA, Rocket Lab will send a small spacecraft called CAPSTONE into orbit around the Moon to test out how to navigate in lunar orbit and help human missions to the Moon in the future.
It'll be the most ambitious mission yet for Rocket Lab, which just launched its workhorse Electron rocket on its 12th flight this weekend . In total, the company has put up to 53 spacecraft into space, and so far, all of the those launches have sent satellites into low Earth orbit. But the company has been eyeing ways to push the envelope.
Many things are taking place:
Can you buy land on Moon? Details on legalities and possibilities here - Republic World
The sudden demise of Sushant Singh Rajput has left the country speechless. As many stories unfold, Sushant was a natural genius whose expertise not only relied on his entertainment career but he was supremely intelligent with the knowledge about Quantum Physics, Stoicism, astrology, and more. The recent news revealed that the actor owns land on the Moon which has led to a boom in searches related to how to buy land on Moon and if a person can buy land on Moon.
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As per the Treaty, " outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means ". This prevents all the member countries from using outer space in any business activities. However, there are people, including Sushant Singh Rajput who reportedly bought a piece of lunar land. Sushant's land on the moon is called the Mare Muscoviense or the 'Sea of Muscovy '.
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First commercial Earth-to-moon communication relay satellite planned for 2023 – TechCrunch
Communications between Earth and the moon actually requires a huge amount of equipment under current circumstances. The transmission distance for any data sent from our large natural satellite and us here on Earth is 225,000 miles — which means a transmission signal requires significant power, and that translates to heavy, bulky transmission equipment to get the job done. In space, weight and bulk immediately translates to costs that ramp up fast.
A new private venture by a new private space company called CommStar Space Communications could help defray that cost by installing a data relay satellite in between the moon and Earth, lowering the weight, power and cost requirements of any communications equipment that needs to be brought along on missions to the moon in the future.
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The time of the full moon is usually expressed at a date.
Dear Tom,
The time of the full moon is usually expressed at a date. Is there a more precise designation of the time?
Tom Schmidt, East London, England
Dear Tom,
The disc of the moon appears totally illuminated to the unaided eye up to two days around the time of the full moon. Closer telescopic examination, however, would reveal shadowing of the craters at the edges of the moon a day either side of the full moon time.
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Moon Eats Venus, Creates 'Solstice Ring Of Fire Eclipse': What You Can See In The Night Sky This
Each Monday I pick out the northern hemisphere's celestial highlights for the week ahead, but be sure to check my main feed for more in-depth articles on stargazing, eclipses and astronomy.
A Chinese couple watches the solar eclipse over Zhengzhou, central China's Henan province on January ... [+] 15, 2010.
June's short nights make it a tricky yet rewarding month for stargazing in the northern hemisphere, none more so than this week, which ends with the solstice—the longest day, and shortest night, of the year. It also ends with a New Moon that causes a special kind of solar eclipse, at least for some sky-watchers.
China's Chang'e 4 moon rover mission is back in action on lunar farside | Space
China's Chang'e 4 mission is back in action for its 19th lunar day of activity on the far side of the moon, with the Yutu 2 rover set to scope out a new crater.
Both the mission's lander and Yutu 2 rover have resumed science activities following sunrise over their location in Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon.
Yutu 2 awoke on June 14 while the lander restarted its activities 13 hours later, on June 15, according to the China Lunar Exploration Program (CLEP).
SpaceX to build floating spaceports for rockets bound for the moon and Mars, and for hypersonic
SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon & hypersonic travel around Earth https://t.co/zLJjz43hKw
Musk said on Twitter that this was the purpose behind the new job posting, which was originally spotted by Dan Paasch. SpaceX has previously shown concepts of its forthcoming Super Heavy rocket booster, paired with its Starship spacecraft, launching for hypersonic Earth travel — which would reduce the trip time for long-haul flights to merely a couple of hours.
Happening on Twitter
How small launcher Rocket Lab plans to pull off its first mission to the Moon next year https://t.co/XUf7lEoeIo https://t.co/H7e6TCGAzf verge (from New York) Wed Jun 17 12:00:14 +0000 2020
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