The Moscow Region Rocket and Space Corporation RSC Energia has developed a 3D printer for use on the International Space Station. According to the press service of Roscosmos, this printer will print samples and parts that are used in large quantities on board the ISS. The first received samples of 3D printing will be returned […]
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Catch the first stage of a rocket with a helicopter. Rocket Lab almost successfully pulled off such a trick.
Rocket Lab conditionally repeated SpaceX’s achievement last year by returning the first stage of its Electron rocket. Yesterday she did it again, but in a more interesting way. Last year, the booster was returned quite simply: it landed on a parachute. Of course, technologically this cannot be compared with the SpaceX solution, but Rocket Lab […]
Chinese rocket launches five satellites into orbit from offshore platform
Satellites for various purposes in 2022 are actively launched not only by the United States, but also by China. For example, today the Long March-11 carrier rocket launched five Earth remote sensing satellites into orbit. The launch took place from an offshore platform in the East China Sea at 11:30 local time (06:30 Moscow time). […]
Giant potentially dangerous asteroid flew past the Earth
According to NASA, a giant potentially dangerous asteroid that flew past the Earth on Thursday, April 28. The asteroid, named 418135 (2008 AG33), ranges in size from 350 to 780 meters. Flying past our planet, it moved at a speed of 37,400 km / h, that is, about 30 times faster than the speed of […]
The most incredible telescope of our time. James Webb completes main mirror setup
The James Webb Space Telescope has completed its alignment phase. All segments of the main mirror fell into place. The scientists tested the telescope by taking pictures of the Large Magellanic Cloud with all four major instruments. As you can see, the photos turned out to be as clear as possible. The optical performance of […]
Russian cosmonauts unfurled the banner of Victory in outer space on the ISS
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemiev and Denis Matveev completed the second April spacewalk under the Russian program on the International Space Station. Details were told by the press service of Roskosmos. During a spacewalk lasting 7 hours and 43 minutes, Artemiev and Matveev, together with cosmonaut Sergei Korsakov, turned on the ERA remote manipulator for the […]
“Now it’s about the viability of the Russian orbital constellation.” Roskosmos is focusing on the Earth’s orbit, while lunar missions will have to wait
The restart of the Russian lunar mission will take place this year: Luna-25 will become the first domestic device in modern Russia on a natural satellite of the Earth. This automatic probe is designed for research in the region of the south pole of the moon. And then there will be progress. According to the […]
The Curiosity rover will travel around the Red Planet for another three years. NASA extends eight space missions
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the extension of the research program of eight space missions due to their scientific productivity and high potential for obtaining knowledge about the solar system and the universe. We are talking about the Martian orbiters Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, the Curiosity rover, the landing […]
Record-breaking quakes on Mars
The InSight research apparatus, which has been on Mars for more than three years, recorded the strongest marsquakes in the history of observations of the Red Planet. We are talking about two events that occurred last fall, but an article describing them has just come out. The quakes had magnitudes of 4.1 and 4.2 on […]
Stuck on the ISS space tourists finally flew to Earth
For businessmen Larry Connor, Eitan Stibbe and Mark Paty, as well as former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, the last five days on the International Space Station have been quite busy: they arrived at the ISS on April 9, and were supposed to return on April 19, but due to bad weather off the coast of […]