Brie Archambault
My name is Brie, I am a space enthusiast living in Canada with a particular interest in Chinese and French aerospace.
On June 25th, 2024 a Falcon Heavy lifted off from the pad carrying 'GOES-U' to GTO. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s weather, oceans, and environment, as well as real-time mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity and space
Jun 26, 2024 4 mins
Guowang is China's national answer to Starlink. Back in early 2015 SpaceX announced the Starlink project to provide global internet access. This is not the first of their proposals but what makes Starlink so successful is the scale of their operation and them launching their own satellites at
Jun 10, 2024 6 mins
China kicked off its Chang'e 6 lunar far-side sample return mission at 17:27 pm China Standard Time, or 09:27 am Universal Coordinated Time, May 3rd. The Long March 5 vehicle carrying the Chang'e 6 lifted off at the start of its launch window. Ascent
Jun 1, 2024 3 mins
Chinese rocket company Deep Blue Aerospace has secured new funding for its reusable rocket plans, with the first launch scheduled for later this year. While just two years ago Deep Blue Aerospace preformed hop tests of a smaller vehicle, and completed several firings of their Nebula-1 rocket architecture. The company
Jun 1, 2024 3 mins
A new Earth-observation mission has lifted off and into orbit. A Falcon 9 carrier rocket lifted the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force base. This payload, known as EarthCARE, is a European-Japanese cooperative mission meant to examine the role that clouds and aerosols
May 31, 2024 3 mins
Discover the importance of Chang'e 6 and its landing site in this new article!
May 13, 2024 5 mins
Chang'e (嫦娥) is a figure in Chinese mythology known as the goddess of the moon. A woman who stole immortality and fled to the moon, and when mankind touched down onto the lunar surface flight controller Ronald Evans told Michael Collins the story of Chang'e. Collins
May 2, 2024 10 mins
Learn about the history and development of China's global navigation system!
Apr 21, 2024 5 mins
Both the United States of America and the People's Republic of China are planning to perform crewed missions to the Moon before the year 2030. The two countries have different ideas on how these missions should be performed in terms of launch plans and public-private partnerships. But how
Apr 17, 2024 22 mins
Angara, a representation of a dwindling dream.
Apr 10, 2024 5 mins
Learn about how radiation remains a critical component of how we address the future of spaceflight!
Apr 5, 2024 8 mins
Flying Baguettes? Aerospikes? Hybrid Rockets? Learn about all this and more to truly understand HyPrSpace!
Mar 30, 2024 5 mins
Learn more about the amazing things going on China's Space Station!
Mar 29, 2024 5 mins