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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Japanese company ispace will attempt historic moon landing today

Japanese company ispace will attempt moon landing today | Building the 'Moonhouse': Q&A with artist Mikael Genberg | See Resilience's landing zone on the lunar surface

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Japanese company ispace will attempt moon landing today

Japanese spaceflight company ispace aims to make history today with its second attempt to land on the moon. The Resilience lander is currently orbiting the moon as it prepares to land within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold") in the moon's northern hemisphere. The landing is scheduled for 3:17 p.m. EDT (1917 GMT; or 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6). Watch the landing attempt live via ispace, and on Space.com.

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Building the 'Moonhouse': Q&A with artist Mikael Genberg

A dream that Mikael Genberg has nurtured for more than a quarter century could come true today (June 5). The Swedish artist's "Moonhouse," a project he devised way back in 1999, is set to touch down on the moon this afternoon aboard Resilience. The artwork - a tiny replica of the red-and-white houses that dot the Swedish countryside - is mounted on the front bumper of Tenacious, a microrover built by ispace's European subsidiary. If Resilience touches down safely today and everything thereafter goes to plan as well, Tenacious will deploy from the lander and drop the Moonhouse onto the lunar dirt, giving the gray landscape a solitary spark of vibrant color.

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See Resilience's landing zone on the lunar surface

Resilience is far too small to be seen from Earth, but its approximate landing site on the lunar surface is easily identifiable, if you know where to look. In the nights surrounding June 5, look toward the southeastern sky - the moon will become more visible after sunset.

Spaceflight

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'Joy,' a plush baby swan, will launch with Axiom Mission-4

The Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) astronauts, including American commander Peggy Whitson, Indian pilot Shubhanshu Shukla and mission specialists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary, chose a small plush swan named "Joy" as their zero-gravity indicator. The doll, attached to a tether, will be released to float aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule, signaling that the Ax-4 crew safely made it into low Earth orbit.

Science & Astronomy

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Magnetic fields appear to be as old as the universe itself

The debate between the two origin stories for the universe's magnetic fields has raged for years in the astronomical community. A pair of researchers based in Italy took on the challenge by measuring giant magnetic fields in the filaments of the cosmic web and then comparing those measurements with mock observations of simulated magnetic fields, to see if these filaments could be used to tease apart the two origin scenarios.

SpaceX

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SpaceX launches Starlink stack from Vandenberg (photos)

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites from California yesterday. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX's Starlink 11-22 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 7:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT; 4:40 p.m. local time in California). The stack of 27 Starlink satellites began their journey into low Earth orbit (LEO) aboard a Falcon 9 first-stage booster designated B1063. This was the 26th launch of B1063, which has now supported 18 Starlink missions.

Technology

(ESA/DLR – M. Diegeler)

Europe stages moon landing to improve lunar photography

Pictures from a simulated moon landing, not designed to fool anyone into believing a fake but rather to provide a reference to make sure that we can get the best video images possible when astronauts finally do return to the moon, have been released by the European Space Agency (ESA).

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

SpaceX's next private astronaut launch to ISS, Ax-4, pushed back to June 10

ispace Resilience probe landing on the moon June 5 | SpaceX's next private astronaut launch delayed to June 10 | Japan's private ispace probe aims for moon landing

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ispace Resilience probe landing on the moon June 5

Currently, ispace's Resilience moon lander is scheduled to land on Thursday, June 5, at 3:17 p.m. EDT (1817 GMT), though it will be 4:17 a.m. Japan Standard Time on Friday, June 6, at touchdown time. That landing time follows a specific timeline of events ispace has laid out to deliver Resilience to the lunar surface. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Resilience toward the moon on Jan. 15

(Axiom Space)

SpaceX's next private astronaut launch delayed to June 10

The next astronaut launch to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed again. That liftoff - which will kick off Ax-4, the fourth crewed mission by Houston company Axiom Space -- had been scheduled for this coming Sunday (June 8). But that's no longer the plan. Axiom Space announced via X that the new target is next Tuesday (June 10). The four-astronaut mission will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida that day at 8:22 a.m. EDT (1222 GMT).

Spaceflight

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Japan's private ispace probe aims for moon landing

Success would be huge for ispace and for Japan, which has just one soft lunar landing on its books to date — that of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's SLIM spacecraft, which touched down just last year. It would also be a big milestone for commercial spaceflight, which has increasingly set its sights on the moon.

Science & Astronomy

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JWST unveils fiery origins of a distant, hellish exoplanet

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered the tumultuous history of a distant, hellishly hot exoplanet that's being stretched and scorched by its star. Using the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph instrument, or NIRSpec, a team of astronomers detected a cocktail of molecules in the planet's atmosphere that each carry chemical clues to its dramatic journey. These include water vapor, carbon monoxide, methane and, for the first time ever in a planetary atmosphere, silicon monoxide.

SpaceX

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'Starship in space': See amazing photos from Flight 9

SpaceX's Starship megarocket tends to put on a show, and its latest test flight was no exception. That mission, the ninth ever for the roughly 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship, lifted off from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas last Tuesday (May 27). Flight 9 delivered some amazing visuals, which we saw live courtesy of SpaceX's launch webcast -- and after the fact as well, via video clips and photos the company posted on X.

Technology

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AI could solve twin star puzzle in 'mere minutes or seconds'

A new artificial intelligence program could revolutionize our understanding of binary star systems, deeply reducing the time it takes to distinguish the characteristics of their stars. With this program, what typically takes an entire month could be done in just 10 minutes. The system, a neural network called PHOEBAI, could therefore revolutionize the process of assessing these twin star systems and determining stellar qualities such as mass and size, thus relieving a bottleneck of hundreds of thousands of potential binaries currently waiting to be analyzed.

Entertainment

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These are the friendliest extra-terrestrials from sci-fi

Aliens tend to fall into two distinct camps: those who want to zap us with lasers, and those who want to be our cool new intergalactic BFFs. While the world-invasion types tend to grab the headlines with stunts like demolishing popular tourist destinations and vaporising the populace with death rays, the friendly aliens who come in peace are more likely to embrace humanity for all its flaws. Indeed, the 12 extra-terrestrials we've listed invariably left the world better than they found it, whether it's by saving the day, being an entertaining house guest, or expanding the fundamental limits of human consciousness.