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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Europe has announced a space mission to Earth’s “evil twin”
The European Space Agency gave the go-ahead for the development of the EnVision mission, which from low orbit explores Venus – the second planet from the Sun and Earth’s neighbor. This was reported by the ESA press release. Scientists hope to shed light on when and how Venus survived the catastrophic greenhouse effect. EnVision […]
Japan to Deliver All-Terrain Transforming Robot to the Moon: Concept Illustration
Private company ispace has signed a contract for the delivery of a miniature “all-terrain” robot-transformer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the moon. There are still few details about the robot. It is still under development: specialists from Sony, TOMY and Doshish University are working on this. Judging by the images and […]
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, […]
Fusion in China. Record set on “artificial sun” EAST – photo
The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak EASP in China managed to reach a plasma temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius, and it was maintained for 101 seconds. This is five times more than the last record, writes the website of the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP). Moreover, on the […]
Huge speed, plasma streams and plume. How Starship will go out of orbit – video
By the end of 2021, SpaceX hopes to send a sample SN20 of its Starship rocket spacecraft on its first orbital test flight from Texas to Hawaii around Earth. CGI designer Alexander Svanidze showed on YouTube how his entry into the atmosphere will look on his return. The head of the company, Elon Musk, […]
The Chang’e 5 probe showed the Earth and the Sun from the Lagrange point L1 1.5 million km from us – photo
After dropping a capsule with lunar soil samples over China, the orbital probe of the Chang’e 5 mission was sent to the L1 Lagrange point from us in the direction of the Sun, since it had enough fuel left to perform various additional experiments and observations. Since March, the probe has been located about 1.5 […]
Voyager 1 heard “light rain noise” 23 billion km from Earth: audio from deep space
Launched 44 years ago, the Voyager 1 probe since August 2012 is no longer flying in the heliosphere of the solar system. With the distance from the Sun, solar disturbances at different frequencies subsided, which allowed the apparatus to register a barely noticeable but steady “hum” of extremely rarefied ionized interstellar gas. Writes about this […]