RT @Firefly_Space: #BlueGhost got her first diamond ring! Captured at our landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 am CDT, the p….

Congrats Firefly Aerospace. It’s Blue Ghost 1 becomes the second commercial lander to touch down softly on the Moon

RT @Gwynne_Shotwell: Intuitive Machines’ lander is on its way to the Moon after Falcon 9 successfully deployed Athena into a lunar transfer….

The sample of soil delivered to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contains some of the ingredients for biology, such as amino acids (building blocks of proteins), nucleobases, that make up DNA and RNA, along with evidence of salt water

RT @IEEESpectrum: Last night, @blueorigin's New Glenn rocket reached orbit for the first time. Its launch was powered by seven BE-4 engines….

A milestone for Blue Origin: New Glenn launches from Florida on its first flight.

Updated launch details for New Glenn.

RT @Firefly_Space: Look at that view! Blue Ghost is now separated from the launch vehicle and our road trip to the Moon has officially begu….

RT @NASA: There it goes: our post-holiday delivery aboard Blue Ghost begins its journey to the Moon!. In addition to providing information….

NASA will build on the findings, sending a rotorcraft to Titan this decade. It will explore a variety of locations, studying chemical processes on the moon, which is thought to be similar in some ways to the very early Earth

The mission shed valuable light on a fascinating world with its own seasonal cycle, where wind and rain shape the surface to form channels, seas, dunes and shorelines. This article by me from 2017 tells the story of Huygens and the Cassini orbiter

Esa quickly presented the first pictures from Huygens’ descent, including a staggering aerial view showing what appeared to be channels in the surface. After touching down, the probe sent an image of its landing site, strewn with pebbles of ice

20 years ago today, the Huygens spacecraft touched down on Saturn’s moon Titan - the most distant landing by a human-built craft. I was reporting on it from ESA’s control centre in Darmstadt. Huygens sent data and images during a 2 hr 27 min descent through Titan’s atmosphere

RT @davill: Weather (including sea states) looks much more favorable for this new window.

SpaceX is targeting 15 January for its seventh flight test of Starship. They’ll attempt the vehicle’s first payload deployment test, releasing 10 “simulators”, similar in size and weight to next-gen Starlink satellites.

RT @NASA_Johnson: Next stop: the Moon 🌕. On this week’s #HWHAP, @NASA and @Firefly_Space experts discuss the upcoming launch of Blue Ghost….

NASA is exploring two options for a reimagined Mars Sample Return. One uses the existing the Skycrane technology to land on Mars, the other involves partnering with industry to develop a new way to land the payload. More here

New details on the seventh flight test for Starship, including upgrades and redesigns to the upper stage.

RT @SpcPlcyOnline: Blue Origin remains silent about when New Glenn will launch, but the FAA's operations website shows a time change. Windo….

RT @rincon_p: What should we expect from science in 2025? Some thoughts from me and colleagues on the Conversation podcast. We cover a fair….