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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 Starlink satellites into orbit on July 20 and landed safely on a ship at sea, Space reports. The Falcon 9 was originally scheduled to launch on July 19, but was canceled five seconds before launch after receiving a signal from the upper stage of the rocket. However, on July […]
Ever since the instrument of India’s Chandrayaan 1 mission detected water molecules almost 15 years ago, the search for ice at the poles has been a priority in the study of the moon. NASA has now begun assembling a breakthrough instrument, the VIPER lunar rover, ArsTechnica reports. NASA started building VIPER rover to search for […]
China is preparing to send danyo fish to the Tiangong space station to study how they and other microorganisms interact in a small, closed ecosystem. This study also aims to investigate the possible loss of bone density in astronauts during prolonged exposure to microgravity, which could be a problem for future space missions. This is […]
Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine is designed to launch the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, whose first flight has been postponed several times. As it became known from anonymous sources close to Blue Origin, an explosion occurred at the end of June during a test launch of Jeff Bezos’ BE-4 rocket engine. This is yet another setback […]
By the end of the year, the X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft is to make its first test flight. NASA has published several photos of the aircraft in preparation for the upcoming test. The X-59 QueSST is equipped with a 4-meter-long powerplant with a thrust of 10,000 kg. The space agency believes that the engine will […]
A SpaceX rocket delivered 22 SpaceX Starlink “V2 Mini” satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 launched from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday at 8 a.m. Kyiv time. 8.5 minutes after launch, the booster successfully landed on the deck of a ship in the Atlantic Ocean for the sixteenth time, […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will set a new record for re-launches tonight (July 9-10). You can watch the rocket launch live on SpaceX’s YouTube channel or in the video below the article. The Falcon 9 rocket, equipped with 22 next-generation Starlink satellites, is scheduled to launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida […]
Scientists have discovered the oldest and most distant supermassive black hole to date. The James Webb Space Telescope helped them with this, Space writes. What is known A supermassive black hole lies in the center of the CEERS 1019 galaxy. It appeared only 570 million years after the Big Bang. The difficulty in detecting the […]
Scientists have obtained an image of the ESO 174-1 object. It is an irregular galaxy located not far from us, according to the NASA website. What is known ESO 174-1 is located 11 million light years from Earth. On a galactic scale, it can be considered a neighbor of the Milky Way. The photographed galaxy […]
The tiny Ingenuity helicopter, no taller than a two-year-old child, mysteriously lost contact with NASA for 63 days. On Mars, this time did not go too smoothly, as the Martian helicopter found itself in an extremely difficult place to work. But on June 28, he did get in touch, reporting on his adventures and future […]