The head of the Russian state corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, criticized billionaire Elon Musk and his company SpaceX, which deploys Starlink satellite Internet equipment in Ukraine. Rogozin called Musk a “muzzle”, which Russian “maskophiles” consider the beacon of global cosmonautics. At the same time, he added that he had no personal complaints against Musk, because […]
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Russia to start financing mission to Venus in 2022
On the day of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Russian Space Agency, Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of the State Corporation Roscosmos, spoke about the achievements and problems of the modern rocket and space industry in Russia. An interview with Dmitry Rogozin was released on Channel One. Among other things, Rogozin spoke about […]
Elon Musk showed a new video of Starship and Mechazilla
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has released a new video that shows the 140-meter Launch and catch tower with robotic arms called Mehazilla from all sides. She holds the prototype Starship 20 spacecraft, which is taken off the Super Heavy Booster 4 launch vehicle. Recall that SpaceX has built the largest rocket in history. It will […]
$450,000 space flight without reaching the edge of space. Virgin Galactic to start selling tickets tomorrow
Virgin Galactic has announced that it will start selling tickets to everyone on February 16th. But not everyone can become a space tourist, as the ticket price is $450,000. True, the entire amount will not be demanded immediately, but the deposit is still huge and amounts to $ 150,000. We at Virgin Galactic believe that […]
Roskosmos showed the stones rolled down on Mars in the “Labyrinth of the Night”
The press service of Roscosmos has published an interesting photograph of the surface of Mars, taken by the CaSSIS camera aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter orbiter of the Russian-European ExoMars mission. As the press service notes, in this photo, upon closer examination, you can see something more than a cursory glance. At the cliff cutting […]
A new history of space exploration. The James Webb telescope took the first photo, and then a selfie
The James Webb Space Telescope, which reached its destination less than a month ago and is now in the process of aligning, sent back its first photo. But so far this is not at all what scientists are counting on. The image of the star HD 84406, which you can see below, is a mosaic […]
Elon Musk showed the 140-meter “Mehazilla” in action: a giant tower sets Starship on Super Heavy
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has posted new photos and a video showing a giant mechanized-arm turret called Mechazilla that will be used to ‘catch’ a Super Heavy booster as well as a Starship spacecraft on landing. . Elon Musk commented on what is happening in the photo and video: “The “arms” of the Mechazilla tower […]
NASA will launch a rocket from another planet for the first time in history
According to the plan, the Perseverance rover will collect soil samples and leave sealed test tubes on the surface of the planet. A new rover will then be sent to Mars to collect these tubes and deliver them to the launch pad, where they will be loaded into a rocket. We are talking about the […]
The first photos and videos of the heir to “Fedor”. In Russia, presented a new anthropomorphic robot for outer space
In honor of Robotics Day, celebrated annually on February 7 throughout the world, Roscosmos presented to the general public the first images and videos of the new generation anthropomorphic robot Teledroid. The development of Teledroid is being carried out by specialists from the NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika together with RSC Energia. As the press service of […]
Falcon 9 may become the safest rocket in history: it has already outstripped the American shuttles in terms of the number of launches
The Falcon 9 rocket has been launched a total of 140 times, with one mission failed: the launch of the International Space Station resupply mission for NASA in June 2015. Since 2020, the Falcon 9 has been the most successful active rocket in the US when it surpassed the Atlas V rocket in total launches. […]
