Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 20, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On its new specially-built launch platform at the Wencheng Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island, on Aug. 15, 2024 the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted the first successful static test of the first stage of the Long March-10 (LM-10) space launch vehicle […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 18, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 18 ■ Titan casts its shadow on Saturn tonight. Every 15 years, Saturn’s largest moon repeatedly crosses Saturn’s face from Earth’s viewpoint — and, more visibly, casts its very tiny black shadow onto Saturn’ face. A series of these events is now under way. They will […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 11, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, AUGUST 11 ■ Venus and Jupiter shine in conjunction, just 0.9° apart, in the east during early dawn Tuesday morning the 12th. In fact, they rise about an hour before dawn even begins if you have a good flat horizon to the east-northeast. Brilliant celestial cat’s eyes […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia’s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington. President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia’s horrific war against Ukraine […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 4, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 ■ This evening the waxing gibbous Moon hangs hardly more than 1° below orange Antares, the 1st-magnitude heart of Scorpius. MONDAY AUGUST 4 ■ Now the thickening, brightening gibbous Moon shines midway between Antares to its right and the spout of the Sagittarius […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it could still be transferred to and operated by a consortium of “private” companies, it appears that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to end its operation of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, and to thereafter begin operations to deorbit […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 28, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, JULY 27 ■ Use the low crescent Moon to guide you to Mars and Denebola in the fading twilight this evening, as shown below. At dusk across four days, the waxing crescent Moon moves from lower right of Mars to much closer lower right of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The myth that Peace-in-Space can lead to, or even influence the possibility of Peace-on-Earth rests in part on the historically brief but emotionally enduring impact of the first international mission in space, the July 17, 1975 docking of the United States-Soviet Union Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 21, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. The waning crescent Moon in the dawn passes Venus, then Jupiter. Look before or during early dawn, while the sky is still pretty dark, to spot the horntips of Taurus a well as the rest of Taurus off the frame to the upper right. MONDAY, JULY […]
