Month: April 2023

Fans in mourning over the end of Prime Video’s military space drama “The Expanse,” in January of 2022 should rejoice over the Rocinante crew being resurrected in a new format that solves many questions and plot threads from the show’s six TV seasons. “The Expanse” series was adapted from Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck’s bestselling run of nine novels set 300 years in the future that told the epic tale of a lethal alien agent called the protomolecule and its effects on the Belters, Earthers and Martians. Sadly, the last…

We’re quickly closing in on the late April launch date for the hotly anticipated sequel to 2019’s “Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.”  To further whet fans’ appetites, Respawn Entertainment, EA and Lucasfilm Games shared a bold new final gameplay trailer for “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” at the Star Wars Celebration Europe event in London earlier this month. Sinister events unfold in this action-packed preview that reveals more wild alien creatures, lightsaber clashes, combat zones, stormtrooper attacks, crazy Force skills, deadly droidekas, Cere Junda, Greez Dritus, the scoundrel assassin Bode Akuna,…

Components of the Long March 7 rocket that will launch China’s Tianzhou 6 cargo mission to the Tiangong space station arrived at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan island on April 13, 2023.  (Image credit: CALT) China is gearing up to send fresh supplies to its space station. Components of a Long March 7 rocket arrived at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan island, south China, on April 13 after shipping from the northern port city of Tianjin. The rocket is now being assembled. It will launch the…

GOLDEN, Colorado – There are ways here on Earth you can get yourself in able-bodied condition, primped and primed for travel to the nearby moon, even to strut across the distant dunes of Mars — all in the hopes of later achieving the genuine thing. Meet Anastasia Stepanova, a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines here in Golden, and a veteran of multiple missions here on Earth that simulate the conditions human crews would experience during spaceflight or long-duration missions on the moon or Mars.…

Parts of the electromagnetic spectrum invisible to human eyes reveal a vast amount of information about the universe, but it took a long time for astronomers to learn how to view it. For thousands of years, humans were looking up at the star-studded night sky using just their eyes sensitive to the optical wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. The first telescopes, invented in the early 17th century, enhanced the ability of human eyes by magnifying distant objects.  But as physicists started discovering in the 19th century that there are other,…

The world’s largest, most powerful rocket caused some serious mayhem during its first launch. SpaceX’s massive fully-integrated Starship launch vehicle lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase test facility in Boca Chica, Texas on April 20 at 9:33 a.m. EDT (1333 GMT; 8:33 a.m. local Texas time). Starship then flew for just over four minutes on its first orbital test flight — complete with somersaults — before automated systems initiated a destructive abort procedure and caused the rocket to explode.  The success of Starship even clearing its launch tower indicates significant headway for…