#WiFi will be on the moon in just two years

#WiFi will be on the moon in just two years

“WiFi will be on the moon in just two years” Startup Aquarian Space has plans to bring WiFi to the moon in under two years. The company just received $650,000 in seed funding to deliver high-speed internet to the moon, and maybe even Mars. Funding came from California-based Draper Associates – the same venture capitalists who…

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#Russia to work on solo Mars mission after Europe freezes project

#Russia to work on solo Mars mission after Europe freezes project

“Russia to work on solo Mars mission after Europe freezes project” March 18  – Russia will start work on its own Mars mission given that the European Space Agency (ESA) has suspended a joint project in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, Interfax news agency quoted a top official as saying on Friday. The ESA announced on Thursday that it would be impossible to continue cooperating with Russia on the…

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#California startup Astrolab unveils space rover

#California startup Astrolab unveils space rover

“California startup Astrolab unveils space rover” LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles-area startup founded by a veteran spaceflight robotics engineer unveiled on Thursday its full-scale, working prototype for a next-generation lunar rover that is just as fast as NASA’s old “moon buggy” but is designed to do much more. The company, Venturi Astrolab Inc, released photos and video showing its Flexible Logistics…

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#Perseverance Mars rover marks a year on red planet

#Perseverance Mars rover marks a year on red planet

“#Perseverance Mars rover marks a year on red planet” Friday, February 18th marked the first anniversary of NASA’s Perseverance rover’s Mars landing.  The rover first touched down in the planet’s Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Since then, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noted in…

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