On its first test flight into orbit, SpaceX’s rocket ship will leave a test site in southern Texas and splash down off the coast of one of the Hawaiian Islands. This follows from the document that Elon Musk’s company filed with the US Federal Communications Commission, writes The Verge. This will be the Starship’s […]
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An astronomer showed a tumbling stage of a rocket that will soon fall to Earth – video
BaboutMost of the debris from the stage of China’s Long March-5B rocket, which is expected to fall to Earth over the weekend, will be burned up in the dense layers of the atmosphere. The risk of any damage is “extremely low,” Reuters quoted Wang Wenbin as a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman. Earlier, […]
They wanted to send the Martian helicopter on a record voyage, but it did not take off. The reason is named
On April 29, the Ingenuity mini-helicopter did not complete its planned fourth flight at Jezero Crater on Mars. This was announced by a mission operator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They write that the problem identified earlier is that every time the helicopter tries to take off, with a 15% probability, the watchdog timer […]
China Began To Build Its ISS In Space: The Main Module Of Tianhe Was Launched Today – Video
Using a heavy Long March 5B rocket, China this morning at 06:23 Kiev time successfully launched the 22.5-ton main module of its future Tianhe station into a 370-kilometer intermediate orbit, which will serve as a dwelling, docking bay and laboratory. China has approached the task in abundance: in addition to Tianhe (“Tianhe”), which is […]
Humanity Will Launch Interstellar 1,000 Times Farther Than Record-breaking Voyagers
American and European scientists have developed and intend to assemble the Interstellar interstellar probe. Its task is to go beyond the solar system and transmit information about what is happening at a distance of about 1000 times farther than from the Sun to the Earth, writes the European Union of Earth Sciences. The project […]
Martian Helicopter Flew Out Of Frame: Video
On April 25, at 11:31 am Kiev time, the Ingenuity mini-helicopter made the third ever flight in the atmosphere of Mars, this time with an impressive lateral movement, and not just ascent / landing with minimal lateral movement. Ingenuity’s two previous flights – 39 and 52 seconds – took place on April 19 and […]
Colonization Of Mars Is Getting Closer: Oxygen Was Produced For The First Time On The Red Planet
On April 20, an experimental instrument aboard the Perseverance rover successfully produced oxygen on Mars. This was announced by the NASA subsite dedicated to the Mars 2020 mission. The MOXIE (Mars Oxygen In-situ Resource Utilization Experiment) instrument at 800 ° C separates oxygen atoms from carbon dioxide molecules, releasing a by-product, carbon monoxide, into […]
Blue Origin Fakes New Shepard Manned Rocket Launch – Broadcast
Today, April 14 at 18:15 Kyiv time, at the test site in West Texas, the American company Blue Origin will launch the New Shepard reusable rocket into a suborbital flight. The NS-15 mission is one of the final stages of checking the apparatus and operations before tourist flights to the area of ​​the Karman line, […]
Firefly Aerospace Showed The Alpha Rocket Installed At The Cosmodrome. Debut Soon – Photos
The American-Ukrainian company Firefly Aerospace yesterday, April 12, installed the first orbital prototype of the Alpha rocket on the launch pad of the cosmodrome. This was announced on Facebook by future space flight debutants. “Alpha” was raised at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, which is used, among other things, to launch payloads […]
Move a giant container ship in the Suez Canal. The parameters of the engineering problem are named
At the points where the container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal, two dredgers are carrying out excavation work: to improve the buoyancy of the vessel, sand is pumped out from the bottom under its “bow”. This was reported by the press service of the channel. Calculations show that for a […]