LandSpace, a Chinese launch company, recently disclosed that it has successfully concluded liquid methane-liquid oxygen rocket engine’s assembly. Reportedly, this engine is intended to be used for the firm’s novel Zhuque-2 launch vehicle. This assembly was done at Huzhou manufacturing base, eastern China. A successful power pack test of the 80-ton thrust Tianque-12 methalox engine was carried out in March 2019.

A recent LandSpace news release highlighted that the latest engine gets advantage of a modular and integrated design. It will help in reducing the number of components as well as reducing the cost. Prior to June 2019 end, the firm estimates a hot fire test of the latest engine. LandSpace is supposed to employ the TQ-12 engine for its Zhuque-2 medium-lift launch vehicle. The firm claimed that the launch vehicle is supposed to be the foremost Chinese rocket supported by methalox propellant.

On a similar note, a latest update highlighted that the first huge batch of SpaceX Internet satellites will have to wait for another week to get in the air. Elon Musk’s firm scrubbed the launch of 60 Starlink spacecraft this week, citing an aspiration to upgrade software and carry out some additional checks.

Through Twitter, SpaceX representatives proclaimed the firm has to postpone the mission to update satellite software and triple-check everything again. He added that the firm always intends to do everything it can on the ground to maximize the success of mission. Further, he highlighted the upcoming launch opportunity in about a week. Reportedly, the recent scrub was said to be the 2^nd in as many days. SpaceX also called off an effort earlier due to heavy high-altitude winds. Starlink is intended to offer affordable Internet access to global population. The initial five dozen spacecraft won’t be almost enough to do this. SpaceX will require approximately 400 satellites to offer minimum coverage and almost 800 for moderate coverage, Musk proclaimed.

NGC 4485, the irregular galaxy, displays all the symptoms of having been comprised in a hit-and-run crash with a passing by galaxy. Instead of wiping out the galaxy, the chance encounter is producing a new species of stars, and most probably planets.

The right side of the galaxy is glowing with formation of star, displayed in star-hatching pinkish nebulas and a number of teen blue stars. The left end, on the other hand, seems unaffected. It has clues of the previous spiral structure of the galaxy that was going through normal galactic development at one time.

NGC 4490, the bigger culprit galaxy, is off the bottom of the structure. The two galaxies crossed each other millions of years back and are now 24,000 Light Years away. The gravitational fight between them produced rippling patterns of high-density dust and gas inside both galaxies. This process activated a spell for formation of star.

This galaxy is a close by example of the type of cosmic accidents that was more ordinary billions of years back when galaxies were closer together and the space was smaller.

Speaking of galaxies, the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the most comprehensive picture yet of a nearby neighbor of our galaxy—the Triangulum Galaxy, a curved galaxy situated only 3 Million Light Years away. This panoramic study of the 3rd-biggest galaxy in our galaxies’ local group offers a mesmerizing scenario of the 40 Billion Stars that comprise one of the most remote objects seen by the naked eye.

This new picture of the Triangulum Galaxy—also dubbed as NGC 598 or Messier 33—has an astounding 665 Million pixels and displays the inner spiral arms of the galaxy and its central area. To combine together this huge mosaic, the Advanced Camera for Surveys by of Hubble required creating 54 different pictures.

The first-ever international study of its kind has discovered that the concentrations of antibiotics detected in some of the worldwide rivers surpass “safe” levels by almost 300 times. The scientists from the University of York looked for 14 normally utilized antibiotics in rivers in 72 nations in 6 continents and identified antibiotics at 65% of the locations investigated. Metronidazole—antibiotic which is utilized to cure bacterial infections counting mouth and skin infections—exceeded safe and sound levels by the largest margin, with concentrations at one location in Bangladesh up to 300 times higher than the “safe” level. In the River Thames of London, the scientists detected the greatest total antibiotic concentration of almost 233 ng/l (nanograms per liter), while in Bangladesh the concentration was nearly 170 times higher.

The most common antibiotic was trimethoprim that was detected at 307 of 711 locations tested and is mainly utilized to cure urinary tract infections. The research group correlated the statistics with “safe” levels in recent time formed by the AMR Industry Alliance, which based on the antibiotic ranged from 20–32,000 ng/l. Ciprofloxacin—which is used to cure a number of bacterial infections—was the compound that frequently surpassed safe levels in 51 places. The team stated that the safe limits were most regularly exceeded in Africa and Asia, but locations in North America, Europe, and South America also had levels of apprehension showing that antibiotic contamination was a “worldwide problem.”

On a similar note, recently, scientists mapped out how to guard third of the global oceans by 2030. The researchers at the University of York have marked out how to look after more than a third of the world’s oceans by 2030, in context to safeguard wildlife and alleviate the effects of climate change. The study explores what it will mean to fully guard 30% and 50% of the global oceans. These goals have been widely talked as a part of conciliations at the U.N. for a Global Ocean Treaty to look after oceans outside of countrywide boundaries, covering almost 230 million square kilometers.

Last week, SpaceX and NASA confirmed that a parachute test conducted last month for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft was not up to the mark. The investigation was conducted by the House Science Committee on NASA’s space exploration plans. During the investigation, Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) puzzled agency officials over parachute testing for commercial crew spacecraft, zeroing in on a precise, formerly unrevealed trial in April.

In that trial, one among the set of four parachutes was failed to open in a single attempt. However, Mo Brooks also stated that the remaining three chutes did not function appropriately, which led the load to hit the ground at a higher pace.

William H. Gerstenmaier—Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations for NASA—said that the cause of the malfunctioning wasn’t clear yet. The agency has been trying to recognize the exact fault behind the parachute system malfunctioning. He noted that the parachutes were equipped with instrumented lines capable of measuring loads, which will offer significant information for that investigation.

Parachute development has remained one of the key issues for both SpaceX and Boeing throughout commercial crew development. The issue was discussed at several latest conferences of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. To the date, 19 different tests of parachute system have already been performed by SpaceX.

On a similar subject, Virgin Galactic’s contract with New Mexico leads to shifting of its commercial spaceflight activities to Spaceport America when its operations and vehicles are almost set to launch. The spaceflight company has revealed that its program had advanced enough to transport the space vehicles and spaceline staff from Mojave, California to Spaceport America, New Mexico.

In the month of February, the company conducted Virgin Space Ship Unity’s first test flight with a passenger aboard. Now, it is focused on to accomplishing the vehicle’s final tests from its relocated place, New Mexico.

The brutal human race has been consuming fossil fuels at an excessive pace for its own benefits irrespective of thinking about the destructive effects on the environment.

Since the evolution of the human race, for the first time, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has surpassed all the previous records and reached the concentration of 415.26 parts per million. The CO₂ concentration was measured by the equipped sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory.

A report was released in the previous week, which revealed that not less than a million species are at the verge of extinction owing to the carbon and global gases emissions by the human actions.

If the carbon emission rate and climate change follow a consistent trend, by the Year 2090, it will cost the U.S. almost $500 Billion for a year.

The rise in atmospheric temperature is associated with the increase in carbon dioxide levels due to the heat absorbing properties of CO₂ molecules.

On a similar subject matter, Honda—Japanese automaker—is still focused to launch diesel car models in India even after the Sixth Stage of Bharat Stage (BS-VI) Emission norms are announced. On the other hand, Maruti Suzuki has decided to discontinue diesel cars’ sale from the next fiscal year.

A senior official of HCIL (Honda Cars India Ltd.) said that the company decides to upgrade its two key diesel engines. The current versions of these engines are equipped in different models comprising City, Amaze, BR-V, CR-V, WR-V, and Civic. However, the company would design the upgraded petrol and diesel engines based on the BS-VI norms.

The company is expecting to launch the upgraded BS-VI engines equipped models from the last quarter of this fiscal year.

Rajesh Goel—Senior Vice President and Marketing & Sales Director at HCIL—recognized that fuel dynamics would vary after implementation of BS-VI norms with an increasing price gap between diesel and petrol models.

As the world is modernizing every second the daily task completion is also getting easier. There are possibilities that instead of getting your electricity bills higher we could actually start using the night sky as an option to light things up. The researchers have recently developed a novel resource of renewable energy that completely uses the coldness of the Universe to produce electricity. The researchers have built a conductor directed towards the sky so that the new device can use the energy formed due to the temperature difference between the Earth surface and the extremely cold nature of the deep space.

It would be designed to work throughout the day even in the absence of sunlight which is something unusual compared to the conventional solar panels that need sun rays to power technologies. The international team of scientists is on the way to put up a strong fight against the traditionally used methods. The device is believed to have immense potential but it will still take a few more years for it to advance such that it can power televisions.  By facing the space dwelled in frigid temperatures and attached to the warmer surface of the Earth is a unique technology. The energy outflow from the device into the sky in the form of infrared rays followed by which a reverse panel uses the radiation for further conversion into electricity, which is similar to the solar cell’s functionality. In the case of the solar cells, the solar radiations from the Sun flow into our planet.

This new technique could completely transition are way of powering homes using generated electricity but with the talent to power electronics at dark. The Universes’ vastness is a source of thermodynamics, according to Stanford University Researcher Dr. Shanhui Fan. The connection between the harvesting of the incoming radiation and outgoing radiation is very a unique and splendid concept. However, in the trials, it has been observed that the device could only generate small energy of 64 Nanowatts of power per square meter. The solar panels, on the other hand, churn million times more energy. According to a new study conducted at the Universities of Birmingham and Utrecht, measly light-exhibiting microalgae in the oceans can become the next generation of organic solar cells. The light harvesting capability of the microorganism will now be scrutinized.

In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, a well-known astronomer rolled his telescope to Mars and supposed he observed continents and canals. And since then, proof for alien life on the Red Planet has been hunted by humans. Now a conspiracy theorist deems he has lastly produced convincing evidence discovered in NASA footage from Mars. Scott C Waring, a self-declared UFO expert delineated his strange theory on his famous etdatabase.com site. He mentioned, “I discovered some really astonishing structures in the southern part of the Red Planet.

“The structures seem to be over the ground tunnel similar to… roughly as if a dome was extended out. Among the structures, one is shaped as capital letter E. This might be a structure in the form of alien writing. It may have a cultural or religious implication.” NASA has clarified the strange structures as pits created by frozen carbon dioxide. Nevertheless, self-declared alien expert Waring disagrees this explanation, mentioning: “I don’t consider that as we cannot trust all they say.”

He further mentioned, “The structures do seem antique, but are still in astonishing condition and may be a good site for a potential Mars base some day as the structures are already accomplished. Nevertheless Waring goes further, delineating how others are shaped “similar to an arm, a head, an eye, and a body part.”

Likewise, sensors sent to Mars by InSight lander of NASA have identified the foremost signals proposing seismic activity on Mars, a major finding that expands the seismology field to a new world further than  the moon and the Earth. Researchers declared the sensation recently describing the seismic signal as the foremost “probable” sign of a “marsquake.”

Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure instrument of InSight sensed the faint sign on April 6. Researchers stated the shaking seems to have created within the planet, instead from mechanical interruptions from the InSight spacecraft itself or wind.

Japan can lastly add itself amongst the ranks of nations with private successful spaceflight outfits. Interstellar Technologies has productively blasted off its MOMO-3 sounding rocket into the orbit, with the aircraft effortlessly crossing the 62 Miles in altitude (Kármán line) before landing into the Pacific. It is a modest beginning—the vehicle just stayed aloft for 8.35 Minutes—but it is also a relief after previous two attempts by Interstellar being unsuccessful.

There was a fair level riding on the voyage. The ultimate objective of Interstellar is to ferry tiny satellites into space at a part of the price of government blast offs, and this takes the firm one step nearer to attaining its goal. It also relieves some of the stress on Takafumi Horie (Interstellar founder). There had been disbelief about the spaceflight chops by Livedoor creator considering his contentious entrepreneurial history (comprising a conviction for accounting deception). This displays that his project can operate on a basic stage—the hurdle is converting a trial like this into a full-fledged business.

Speaking of rockets, when the blast off for Orbiting Carbon Observatory and Glory missions by NASA were unsuccessful in 2011 and 2009, the organization claimed it was due to the malfunctioning of their launch vehicle. The clamshell arrangement (dubbed as fairing) surrounding the satellites as they traveled all over Taurus XL rocket of Orbital ATK failed to detach when triggered. Now, a NASA LSP (Launch Services Program) probe has disclosed that the malfunction was due to defective aluminum substances. More essentially, the investigation blew a 19-year deceptive scheme perpetrated by Sapa Profiles (the Oregon aluminum extrusion maker), which Orbital ATK fell prey to, wide open.

LSP, together with the US Department of Justice and Office of the Inspector General at NASA, have found that the Sapa Profiles falsified critical trials on the aluminum it traded.

The Earth seems to be under great threat as per the NASA scientists as there are high possibilities that a meteor can strike in addition to the nearing asteroid impact that is very well imminent. The scientists have already raised an alarm against the terrifying futuristic aspect. The chances of facing the apocalyptic threat as per the NASA scientists are no doubt truthful as the day our Earth could have an asteroid strike it is not that far away. According to Chief Scientist Jim Bridenstine at NASA, the warning is alarming as the evidence proving that the planet is definitely going to have a threat from the outer space destroying its peaceful world is already claimed. The planets defense against a striking meteor is when the concern came up. At the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park is where the debate over the impact was seeded by Bridenstine.

The debt over the futuristic events has become a consecutive task among the international community of “planetary defense” connoisseurs. In 2019, the conference has the scientists working towards developing techniques to combat the outer space asteroid impacts and also plan for emergency evacuations. The host of life seems to be under great threat and the only chance remaining is to protect it from a human existential threat. Another asteroid is definitely going to strike the Earth as per the scientists but the timings and date are what still remains unclear. The high-consequence event could turn out to be a control-alt-delete for everything.

At the time of a simulation trial, NASA despite being given 8 Years to prepare had completely failed to stop a meteor from hitting the Earth that is the 2013 Chelyabinsk Event that had literally destroyed Russia. There were many deaths and infrastructural destructions experienced by the nation due to the external space impact. There was a meteor going to hit New York wherein the emergency evacuation warnings were given but the speed and energy of the impact destroyed everything greater than a nuclear bomb would. For now, NASA has joined hands with SpaceX to construct a Double Asteroid Redirection Test in order to avoid any such collision in the future. The space agency assumes to detect 90% of the asteroids in 140 Meters or more of range using the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

Cloud Constellation—a startup aimed at securing data storage in the space—has chosen LeoStella to establish a network of 10 satellites for lower Earth orbit. Cliff Beek—Cloud Constellation CEO—stated LeoStella—which is a corporation of Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space—beat Northrop Grumman on cost, among other factors. Beek asserted the low price of the LeoStella offer indicates that Cloud Constellation could lower the total price of positioning its “SpaceBelt” orbiting cloud storage network to $350 Million from $480 Million. He further said, “It is an important improvement from where we started and makes it so that our assets elevate is lower than what we earlier required it to be.”

LeoStella would also construct the satellites faster and smaller than Northrop Grumman will have, Beek said. Cloud Constellation intends to start service in the fourth-quarter of 2021. Brian Rider—LeoStella’s Chief Technology Officer—in a statement, acclaimed the company’s selection as proof of the corporation’s potential with novel space ventures. He said, “We have created LeoStella to facilitate new space constellations and onward-thinking businesses like Cloud Constellation. The SpaceBelt’s DSaaS (Data Security as a Service) would bring an influential new capability for universal data security.”

Recently, LeoStella was in news as the satellite venture hands over CEO power to Mike Hettich, an aerospace executive. Hettich has finally finished his transition to the chief executive officer from chief learning officer at LeoStella. Hettich came to LeoStella from Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems, which is a Washington-based company where he was as vice president for 19 Years. LeoStella’s main priority is to construct satellites of the size of filing cabinets for BlackSky, which is a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries that is advancing a constellation of Earth-observing satellites plus a software platform to carry satellite imagery and other types of geospatial intelligence.