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Last month, SpaceX postponed the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket with the Jupiter-3 satellite several times. This negatively affected the schedule of the Crew-7 mission for NASA. NASA planned to send a crew to the International Space Station on August 15. However, SpaceX announced that the launch was postponed to August 23. Earlier, it […]
In the fall of 2021, the Mauritshuis Art Museum in The Hague opened an exhibition called “Scents in Color”. The curators placed fragrance dispensers next to the 17th-century paintings so that visitors could smell the images depicted on the canvas. The result was unexpected, if not unpleasant. The hints of cleanliness and fresh linen were […]
NASA intends to launch an on-demand streaming service, as well as update its app and redesign its websites to make it easier to access the agency’s content. “Our vision is to inspire humanity through NASA’s only world-class web resource,” says Jeff Seaton, NASA Chief Information Officer. To accomplish this goal, the nasa.gov and science.nasa.gov websites […]
On July 29, at 03:04 UTC (06:04 Kyiv time), a satellite was launched from the LC-39A pad of the Konstantinov Space Center. A Falcon Heavy rocket was launched at JFK. The super-heavy-class carrier launched the EchoStar 24 spacecraft into a geotransition orbit. The satellite weighs 9200 kilograms and has a communication channel capacity of 500 […]
On July 28, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and launched 22 Starlink Internet satellites into Earth orbit, Space reports. The Falcon 9 was launched at 07:01 Kyiv time from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. Approximately 8.5 minutes after launch, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth and landed on the A Shortfall of […]
Ukrainian Vlad Sazhen has discovered a new nebula in the constellation Cepheus and named it “Fallen Soldier” in honor of the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the discoverer himself reported on AstroBin. In the course of his long research, he found out that this nebula is illuminated by a double star BD+69 1319. It also […]
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket was scheduled for July 27 at 06:04 Kyiv time from Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but for unknown reasons, the team canceled the launch 65 seconds before launch, Space reports. According to the company, the next launch attempt is scheduled for July 28 at […]
SpaceX has scheduled a Falcon Heavy rocket launch for July 26 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space reports. The Falcon Heavy launch is scheduled to take place at 06:04 Kyiv time, and the live broadcast will be available on Space.com. This mission will be the seventh for the Falcon Heavy rocket, which was […]
China launched a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on July 20 at 6:20 a.m. Kyiv time to deliver four new satellites belonging to the Tianmu-1 meteorological group in Earth orbit, English.News reports. The satellites are designed to provide commercial meteorological data transmission services. The first launch of the Kuaizhou-1A rocket took place […]
Halves of 10 minutes and a ball that is not inflated with air. Football on the Moon will look completely different from what we are used to seeing on Earth. Scientists from the UK’s Institute of Engineering and Technology believe that the first football match could take place on the Moon in 12 years, as […]