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China successfully launched an experimental reusable spacecraft on Friday to test technologies that will help support activities in space. This is reported by the state media of China. The spacecraft was launched on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Cosmodrome in Inner Mongolia. It is expected to return to the target landing site after […]
A new satellite that Russia is preparing to launch next week on behalf of Iran will greatly expand Tehran’s ability to monitor military targets in the Middle East. But first, Moscow intends to use the spacecraft to aid its own military operations in Ukraine. This was reported by the Washington Post. The Russian space agency […]
American scientists were able to develop a technology that allowed them to revive a pig within an hour of the animal’s death. Specialists from Yale University managed to restore blood circulation and the work of internal organs in the pig within an hour after death was recorded. As part of the experiment, scientists provoked cardiac […]
The NASA space agency announced the postponement of the launch of the Crew-5 mission. The launch was originally scheduled for early September, but now the agency says the launch of the Crew-5 mission will not happen until September 29. The spacecraft is to deliver NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata […]
A launch vehicle developed by the SpaceX company for flights of a new generation of ships caught fire during ground tests taking place in Texas. It is likely that because of this, the launch of the Starship ship into orbit, planned by the company’s founder Elon Musk (Elon Musk) this year, will have to be […]
As planned, the James Webb Telescope team has demonstrated the first full color images obtained with this new space observatory. The telescope made the deepest and most accurate infrared image of the distant universe to date. This is a detailed image of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 (in the cap to this article). The James […]
SpaceX launched 46 satellites and landed a rocket on a ship at sea on Sunday (July 10). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carrying 46 SpaceX Starlink Internet satellites lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Base on Sunday at 9:39 p.m. EDT (04:39 July 11 Kyiv time). On the broadcast of the launch before the launch, […]
On July 7, 2022, the X-37B unmanned spacecraft of the US Space Force broke its own record for the duration of its stay in orbit, spending 781 consecutive days in space. This happened during the Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) mission – the sixth flight of the reusable vehicle. Boeing, which designed and built the X-37B, […]
NASA’s CAPSTONE mission is progressing with mixed success. After the successful launch of the Rocket Lab Electron rocket and the launch of the satellite into space, the mission was met with failure. After launch, CAPSTONE spent almost a week in orbit around the planet to gain enough momentum to travel to the Moon. But shortly […]
The NASA space agency announced new dates for the possible launch of a rocket as part of the Artemis 1 lunar mission. This was reported by NASA Space Flight. “Following a successful dress rehearsal, NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) returned the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the vehicle assembly site for the final time […]