One of Asia’s largest telecoms and pay-TV operators, Japanese company Sky Perfect JSat, has announced that it plans to use the SpaceX Starship interplanetary spacecraft to launch its Superbird-9 telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous orbit in 2024. The details of the deal were not disclosed. The situation is noteworthy in that...
NASA has placed SLS rockets on the launch pad for launch as part of the Artemis 1 mission. The launch is scheduled for August 29th. The Artemis 1 mission involves testing the Orion spacecraft and launching it to the moon. The mission will last from 39 to 42 days. Among...
SpaceX has won one of its first Starship launch contracts. Despite the fact that she has not yet had a single full-fledged launch, the mission in question is scheduled for 2024. Japanese company SKY Perfect JSAT Holdings has chosen Starship to launch its Superbird-9 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit....
About 70,000 spacecraft could be in Earth orbit by 2032. Sergey Boev, chief designer of the missile attack warning system, general director of Vympel IAC, spoke about this within the framework of the Army-2022 forum. “The population density of space objects is increasing, which creates a significant threat of collisions....
The first rocket completely on a new type of fuel – naphthyl – will be launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the fall. The Gonets-M and Skif-D satellites will go into orbit on it. Ruslan Mukhamedzhanov, General Director of the Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure (TsENKI, part...
European and American physicists have developed a plasma facility that allows extracting oxygen from carbon dioxide molecules present in the Martian atmosphere. This was reported by the press service of the American Physical Institute. “We assumed that the collision of high-energy electrons with CO molecules2 will lead to the decomposition...
The Keldysh Center, which is part of Roscosmos, at the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum presented correction systems for heavy geostationary spacecraft based on KM-75 Hall engines and ID-200KR ion engines. As the press service of the state corporation notes, the correction system for heavy geostationary satellites based on the KM-75...
The Keldysh Center, which is part of Roskosmos, showed at the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum a marching electric rocket propulsion system based on the KM-10 Hall engine. It is designed to solve transport problems, for example, as part of space tugs and manned stations, or to solve the problems of...
The BioSentinel cubesat will be launched from the Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis I mission (the first leg of the American lunar mission), it will conduct a long biological experiment in deep space. This was reported to NASA. There will be yeast inside the satellite. Since the biological...
The James Webb Space Telescope sent images in which astronomers noticed the ancient galaxy CEERS-DSFG-1, which was previously considered a record holder, which appeared just 200-300 billion years after the Big Bang. However, the work of two groups of astrophysicists disproved this. The farther away a galaxy is, the earlier...
European Space Agency astronomers have mapped the life of the Sun as part of the Gaia Milky Way project. The main mission of Gaia is to map the Milky Way. Astronomers track the position and movement of stars in the sky while making detailed observations of each star’s brightness and...
Geophysicists from the University of Zurich have found new evidence that the Moon was once part of the Earth. Their study is published in the journal Science Advances. According to some hypotheses about the origin of the Moon, it was formed from matter that separated from the young Earth for...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has published on his page a couple of new photos that show static fire tests of engines on the Starship B7 spacecraft. After successfully conducting the latest tests, Musk wrote: “We are going to try to run the engine for a long time to test the...
The US Space Force has approved the use of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rockets equipped with reusable boosters to launch top-secret reconnaissance satellites. This was reported by Bloomberg. In general, SpaceX has previously launched American spy satellites into orbit using the Falcon 9 rocket, but its capabilities are not enough to...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to soon launch a huge lunar rocket Artemis 1. Recall, as part of the Artemis 1 mission, the first launch of the new monstrous NASA SLS (Space Launch System) launch vehicle is planned, which will send the Orion spacecraft on an unmanned...
An emergency occurred on the International Space Station, its American segment, due to which NASA canceled all spacewalks. It’s all about the leakage of the suit in the helmet area: reportedly, during the recent exit of the astronaut outside the ISS, water began to flow into the helmet. NASA’s current...
