On the evening of January 17, Kyiv time, a successful test launch of the LauncherOne space rocket was made over the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles from under the wing of a modified Cosmic Girl booster aircraft. All stages of the mission went perfectly. Thus, another Forbes billionaire, Richard Branson, has achieved success in […]
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“Space” Internet SpaceX Starlink has already accelerated to almost 200 Mbit / s. True, this is still a single result.
In November, we first got acquainted with the real tests of the SpaceX Starlink satellite Internet. Then the service provided a speed of about 80 Mbit / s. Less than three months have passed, and the rate has increased significantly. As reported, at the next stage of beta testing, the service provided a speed of […]
“Another leaves the surface.” Rocket Lab’s first space launch in 2021: broadcast
Private space company Rocket Lab has scheduled the mission Another One Leaves The Crust for today, January 16. The Electron space rocket will send into orbit an apparatus for the OHB Group corporation, which is known primarily as a manufacturer of satellites of the European analogue of GPS Galileo. The 18th Rocket Lab mission […]
Competitor Musk launches rocket with revamped crew capsule in Texas – broadcast
Today, January 14 at 17:35 Kyiv time, in western Texas, the American company Blue Origin will launch a New Shepard reusable rocket on a suborbital flight with an updated capsule for future passenger “trips”. This is the 14th New Shepard mission and the first flight of this particular rocket (fourth prototype). The rocket will […]
Jupiter’s probe extended its life: it will fly to other objects in the system of the gas giant
The US Aerospace Administration has extended the research mission of the interplanetary unmanned station Juno until September 2025 – or until the time when the device finally “dies” due to the strongest radiation in the Jupiter region. This was reported by the press service of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Launched in 2011, Juno […]
Curiosity has been operating on Mars for 3000 local days. See what’s with his wheels – photo
Made by engineers from Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the 899 kg rover was launched from Earth on November 26, 2011 on an Atlas V 541 rocket and landed in Gale Crater on August 5, 2012. All information about this mission can be found here. See also: Curiosity showed incredibly detailed photos of the mountainside in […]
A snow blanket covered half of Spain and all of Madrid: satellite photos
The photo of the territory of Spain was taken on January 12 at 11:40 local time, the photo of the capital of the country – the next day. That is, three to four days after the strongest snowfall in half a century fell on the peninsula, which brought Philomena’s storm there. In Madrid, it was […]
Elon Musk launches satellite despite massive protest outside SpaceX office – broadcast
The device, in addition to commercial TV broadcasting, will significantly expand the range of military operations using drones, providing enhanced jamming protection, high-resolution live target channels and operational control of falling precision-guided munitions. The satellite was assembled by Airbus Defense and Space specialists on the Eurostar E3000EOR platform, which is equipped with only electric motors. […]