Yesterday, June 17 at 19:09 pm Kiev time, the successful launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket took place, which injected into an intermediate orbit the satellite of the third generation GPS navigation system GPS III SV05. The launch was carried out from the SLC-40 site of the US Air Force cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral […]
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How the “bottom” of the super-heavy rocket Musk and the cosmodrome in the ocean will look like – illustrations
Space fans have posted on the web an illustration of how the engine compartment of the huge first stage of the Starship rocket ship is likely to look from below and from the side. SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that the diagram “fairly accurately” reflects the real picture. According to preliminary data, […]
Huge speed, plasma streams and plume. How Starship will go out of orbit – video
By the end of 2021, SpaceX hopes to send a sample SN20 of its Starship rocket spacecraft on its first orbital test flight from Texas to Hawaii around Earth. CGI designer Alexander Svanidze showed on YouTube how his entry into the atmosphere will look on his return. The head of the company, Elon Musk, […]
The hijacking of the plane by the Lukashenka regime. USA demands urgent ICAO meeting on Belarus
The United States supports an early meeting of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to consider the situation with the forced landing of a Ryanair plane on the Athens-Vilnius flight in Minsk to detain passenger Roman Protasevich, the founder of the opposition Telegram channel NEXTA. This was stated by Secretary of State […]
ICAO responded to the Ryanair hijacking in Minsk: they remembered the Chicago Convention
Yesterday’s forced landing in Minsk of a Ryaniar airline, which was en route from Greece to Lithuania, “may contradict the Chicago Convention.” This was announced by the press service of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). There they are “seriously concerned about the obviously forced landing” of the board with passengers. “We hope that […]
Perseverance saw the consequences of the explosion of the “sky crane”: it lowered it to Mars – photo
The Perseverance rover in the first seconds after landing on the Red Planet “out of the corner of his eye” noticed the consequences of a technical maneuver programmed by NASA, when the “sky crane” that lowered it to the surface flew to the side and crashed nearby, so as not to damage the rover. The […]
A new inhabitant on Mars: the United States successfully landed the Perseverance rover with a helicopter-drone
Seven months of travel from Earth, during which the spacecraft of the Mars 2020 mission covered almost half a billion kilometers, ended late in the evening of February 18 with the successful landing of the American Perseverance rover in the Jezero crater on Mars. The event was broadcast by the US Aerospace Administration. They […]
The day has come. Perseverance rover lands on Mars today – broadcast
Seven months after the launch from Earth and ~ 471 million km of travel, the Perseverance rover will reach Mars tonight (Kyiv time) and land. This non-trivial event will be broadcast by the US Aerospace Administration. The critical phase will begin no earlier than 22:30. As of 06:45 a.m. on February 18, the Mars […]