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Russia launched an Iranian observation satellite

Russia launched an Iranian observation satellite Russia launched an Iranian observation satellite

Russia launched an Iranian surveillance satellite from Kazakhstan today amid concerns from some Western officials that Moscow could use it to support its attack on Ukraine, which Tehran denies. The Khayam remote sensing satellite was launched by a Soyuz rocket at 08:52 (Greece time) from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome, according to images broadcast live by the […]

North Korea says it has launched a second ‘significant test’ to develop a spy satellite

North Korea says it has launched a second ‘significant test’ to develop a spy satellite North Korea says it has launched a second ‘significant test’ to develop a spy satellite

North Korea announced today that the missile test it carried out yesterday was part of the development of a “reconnaissance satellite”, by telegram from the official KCNA news agency. The country’s national aerospace service and defense academy “conducted another major test yesterday Saturday as part of a plan to develop a reconnaissance satellite,” according to […]

Any cyber attack on Russian satellites will cause war, Roscosmos warns

Any cyber attack on Russian satellites will cause war, Roscosmos warns Any cyber attack on Russian satellites will cause war, Roscosmos warns

Russia will face any cyber attack on its satellites as a cause of war, the head of the Russian space agency warned today. Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, denied reports that Russian satellite control centers had been the target of cyber-attacks due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and warned of any attempt to do so, […]

The United States has allocated $ 10 billion to protect against a nuclear attack. The main thing is that no one attacks until 2029

The United States has allocated $ 10 billion to protect against a nuclear attack. The main thing is that no one attacks until 2029

US defense company Lockheed Martin received another $ 4.9 billion in addition to $ 2.9 billion in August 2018 to create a triad of satellites for early registration of missile attacks. Writes about this Space.com.   These devices will monitor the Earth’s surface from a geostationary orbit (~ 36,000 km), and if conventional China or […]

Engineers burned part of a space satellite in plasma and filmed it: see the test

Engineers burned part of a space satellite in plasma and filmed it: see the test

The German Center for Aviation and Astronautics in Cologne showed on video how the components of a spacecraft melt and burn if it enters the dense layers of the atmosphere uncontrollably at speed. The experiment was carried out in a plasma wind tunnel, the press service of the European Space Agency writes.   In such […]

The best video of a landing in the ocean from a camera on a 40-meter falling stage of a SpaceX rocket

The best video of a landing in the ocean from a camera on a 40-meter falling stage of a SpaceX rocket

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 […]

Black shadow on Earth. What a solar eclipse looked like from space – photo

Black shadow on Earth. What a solar eclipse looked like from space – photo

NASA’s GOES-East satellite captured yesterday’s solar eclipse from space. This is reported by Space.com.   As noted, the eclipse was partial: the Moon was too far from the Earth to completely cover the Sun. From the surface of our planet, the bright edge of the Sun was visible, which resembled a ring of fire. However, […]

For the first time, the hydrogen corona of Mars is shown: photos came from the probe الأمل

For the first time, the hydrogen corona of Mars is shown: photos came from the probe الأمل

The probe الأمل (“Hope”) of the first Arab interplanetary mission transmitted data to Earth, according to which scientists have collected the first and almost complete image of the exosphere of Mars – the so-called corona. The press service of the Hope Mars Mission writes about this.   On May 10, from an orbit of 20,000 […]

US launches enemy attack detection satellite on Russian-powered rocket – broadcast

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 […]

In the footsteps of SpaceX. Electron rocket launch with a stage return from space – broadcast

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 […]