The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA announced that the Ingenuity helicopter made a new record flight on Mars. The 59th flight of the device took place on September 16, 2023. Ingenuity photographed its own shadow during its 59th flight. Illustration: NASADuring the flight, Ingenuity rose to a record height...
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return through Earth’s atmosphere after a long journey to Benn, a potentially dangerous asteroid. Illustration: NASA/Goddard/University of ArizonaBennu has a 1 in 2,700 chance of crashing into Earth, the highest of any known space object. The purpose of the mission is to...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has given us a glimpse of an intriguing patch of the Sun not yet visible from Earth. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkPerseverance photographs the sun daily with the Mastcam-Z camera system to measure the amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere. On August 20, 2023, the...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA announced that the Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its 54th flight to Mars. This happened on August 3, 2023. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkThe helicopter made a fairly simple “jump”, rising to 4.87 m and descending almost immediately, which took only 24 seconds....
LunaH-Map was developed to map ice deposits at the South Pole of the Moon. It orbited the Moon shortly after launch on November 16, 2022, but due to technical problems it was not possible to correct the course to achieve the planned scientific orbit around the Moon’s South Pole, including...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the latest news about the InSight lander project on the surface of the Red Planet. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkData sent by the spacecraft before it “retired” in December 2022 has provided new details about how fast the planet is spinning....
NASA has released a test video of advanced SRM1 and SRM2 solid propellant engines. The tests were carried out back in the spring: SRM2 was tested on March 29 at the Northrop Grumman base in Elkton, Maryland (there, by the way, a plant for mass production of engines for hypersonic...
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA shared regular news from the expanses of the Red Planet. The Curiosity rover will celebrate its 11th year on Mars on August 5, doing what it does best: exploring the surface of the Red Planet. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkQuite poetically, NASA...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA announced the imminent launch of the streaming video service NASA + with a selection of content about space. A kind of “space” online cinema, like Netflix, Apple TV + or Okko. Updated NASA website. Illustration: NASAThe service will be available by the end...
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA lifted the veil of secrecy and revealed some details about residential platforms for lunar and Martian missions. NASA is developing habitation modules for both lunar exploration and Martian transport missions. The latter will be able to support life for more than a thousand...
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has published an interesting video. The video shows how astronauts get rid of debris on the International Space Station. Hoburg points to a piece of equipment that was discarded on July 3, 2023. Illustration: NASAIn the video, NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg shows...
SpaceX planned to launch 15 of its Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 at 04:40 AM ET (08:25 BST). But this was not destined to happen: the starting team canceled everything with five seconds before the...
NASA’s Mars sample return mission is in danger of being completely canceled after the Senate Appropriations Committee offered its recommendations on a fiscal year 2024 spending bill. Vehicle concept for returning samples to Earth. Illustration: NASA/JPL-CaltechThese recommendations do not include everything that NASA hoped for. The CJS (Commerce, Justice, and...
A new study has found that ravines on Mars could have formed when the Red Planet tilted hard on its side, causing a dramatic shift in climate that caused water to flow along the slopes. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaScientists first discovered ravines on Mars in 2000. They were very similar...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new view of a massive cluster of galaxies called eMACS J1353.7+4329. This cluster is located about eight billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Hounds. Photo: ESABy comparison, the farthest object ever observed is 13.5 billion light-years from Earth. In a statement,...
SpaceX planned to launch 54 of its Starlink satellites from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida on a Falcon 9 on Friday, July 14, 2023 at 04:40 AM ET (07:40 AM BST). 16 launch for the first stage of this particular rocket was supposed to be a record....
