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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Taikonauts inside the “Sacred Boat” flew to the new Chinese space station: video
On June 17, at 04:22 am Kiev time, the Shenzhou-12 (神舟 十一 号) spacecraft with three taikonauts on board was successfully launched in the direction of the Chinese space station under construction. The launch was carried out on a Long March-2F Y12 rocket (长征 二号 F 火箭) from the site of the largest China […]
US military launches Minotaur I rocket with aviator boar into space – broadcast
Mission NROL-111 of the US National Space Intelligence Agency is scheduled for today, June 15. The Minotaur I solid-propellant rocket will launch three payloads for the Pentagon into orbit. The launch is carried out by Northrop Grumman Corporation. The main passenger on the rocket is the sixth and last military satellite of the AEHF […]
Fly to the moon. NASA first showed “assembled” new mega-rocket – photo, video
For the first time, the US aerospace agency NASA showed the assembled super-heavy rocket SLS (Space Launc System), which will be used in the mission to explore the moon – Artemis. Corresponding footage was published on NASA social networks. The engineers reportedly lowered the rocket’s main stage between the two boosters. In this video, […]
SpaceX brings glowing newborn squids and water bears into space – broadcast
On June 3, at 20:29 pm Kiev time, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is to be launched, which will send a Cargo Dragon cargo ship with 3328 kg of cargo on a commercial flight to the International Space Station. The launch will take place from the SLC-39A site in the Space Center. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, […]
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, […]
US launches enemy attack detection satellite on Russian-powered rocket – broadcast
On May 17, at 20:35 Kiev time, the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches from the SLC-41 site at the US Air Force Base at Cape Canaveral. The carrier is to put the fifth satellite of the SBIRS series into a geo-transfer orbit. The launch point at that moment will be day. The […]
From Texas to Hawaii around the Earth. Musk showed Starship orbital test flight plan
On its first test flight into orbit, SpaceX’s rocket ship will leave a test site in southern Texas and splash down off the coast of one of the Hawaiian Islands. This follows from the document that Elon Musk’s company filed with the US Federal Communications Commission, writes The Verge. This will be the Starship’s […]
In the footsteps of SpaceX. Electron rocket launch with a stage return from space – broadcast
On May 15, at 13:08 Kiev time, the Rocket Lab Electron rocket will be launched from the New Zealand launch pad. The spent first stage is planned to be returned to Earth intact, as SpaceX has been doing for a long time, but in a different way: it will be lowered into the ocean by […]
SpaceX goes on record: the symbolic 10th launch of the same rocket – broadcast from the USA
On May 9 at 09:42 am Kiev time, SpaceX plans to carry out a record launch of a partially reusable rocket* Falcon 9. No one in the history of astronautics has used the first stage of a rocket 10 times. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., a company of Elon Musk, has no competitors in the […]