The Starship, which is currently being developed and tested in suborbital flights, will land on Mars until 2030. Confidence in this was expressed by Elon Musk, the head of the company that developed this carrier SpaceX. The billionaire commented on an article in Are Technica that “Europe is starting to worry about SpaceX’s growing […]
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The United States conducted a “hot test” of the main stage of a huge rocket to fly to the Moon – video
Yesterday, at about 21:35 Kiev time, a successful firing test of the largest node ever created by NASA of rockets was carried out: all four RS-25 engines of the main stage of the future Space Launch System (SLS) were launched at 499.6 seconds. The test was carried out at the stand of the NASA […]
Brazil launches Amazônia-1: the country’s first national satellite – broadcast of the launch
Today at 06:53 from the Space Center. Dhavana on the Indian island of Sriharikota is to launch a four-stage PSLV-C51 rocket with the first fully assembled satellite in Brazil – and 18 other mini and nanosatellites. The launch point at this time will be late morning. If all goes well, in less than 18 […]
Who bought the “ticket to Mars”. See where your names are now – photos from millions of kilometers away
The eighth sol (Martian day) of the stay of the American Perseverance rover on the Red Planet has gone. On the upper arch of the rover, three silicon chips are fixed, on which 10,932,295 names of earthlings are laser-engraved with lines less than one thousandth the thickness of a human hair (75 nm). This […]
Musk showed a new prototype of the Starship spacecraft. Will fly soon – photo
The head of SpaceX, Elon Musk, showed on Twitter a photo of a new test sample of the Starship spacecraft, which is numbered SN10. “At the launch site. Engines are being replaced,” he signed the picture. Click to enlarge: The billionaire businessman hinted in one of the online chats a few days ago that […]
Perseverance saw the consequences of the explosion of the “sky crane”: it lowered it to Mars – photo
The Perseverance rover in the first seconds after landing on the Red Planet “out of the corner of his eye” noticed the consequences of a technical maneuver programmed by NASA, when the “sky crane” that lowered it to the surface flew to the side and crashed nearby, so as not to damage the rover. The […]
Supercomputer Catherine Johnson Sent Into Space – Launch Broadcast
Today, February 20 at 19:36 Kiev time, an Antares rocket with cargo for the International Space Station is to take off from the LP 0-A site of the Wallops Cosmodrome in the coastal US state of Virginia, which will take the unmanned spacecraft Cygnus there. The ship NG-15 SS Katherine Johnson is named after […]
A new inhabitant on Mars: the United States successfully landed the Perseverance rover with a helicopter-drone
Seven months of travel from Earth, during which the spacecraft of the Mars 2020 mission covered almost half a billion kilometers, ended late in the evening of February 18 with the successful landing of the American Perseverance rover in the Jezero crater on Mars. The event was broadcast by the US Aerospace Administration. They […]
Problems with Progress: the second in a row Russian spacecraft had difficulty docking with the ISS
To dock the Progress MS-16 truck launched on February 15 with the Pirs module on the International Space Station, we had to switch from the automatic rendezvous system to manual control: the antenna on the unmanned vehicle was damaged and deviations from the docking axis occurred. This was reported by the propaganda resource of the […]
The day has come. Perseverance rover lands on Mars today – broadcast
Seven months after the launch from Earth and ~ 471 million km of travel, the Perseverance rover will reach Mars tonight (Kyiv time) and land. This non-trivial event will be broadcast by the US Aerospace Administration. The critical phase will begin no earlier than 22:30. As of 06:45 a.m. on February 18, the Mars […]