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The Martian helicopter Ingenuity successfully made its 25th flight over the surface of the Red Planet. The launch took place last week on Friday. The helicopter set a new record for range as well as speed, according to the Ingenuity team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. According to NASA, on April 8 Ingenuity flew, moving […]
Experts from the James Webb Mission Support Team (JWST) reported the successful cooling to operating temperature of the telescope’s most sensitive instrument, the MIRI Medium Infrared Camera. This means that the observatory is one step closer to the beginning of its scientific program. How to see the light of the first stars Why do you […]
It has been 20 years since the completion of the Human Genome Project, in which scientists have sequenced the human genome in 10 years. Despite the fact that this event is usually referred to as the decoding of the entire genome, in fact, the project sequenced 92% of DNA nucleotide sequences. The day before, an […]
There were several flares in the sun in late March. The strongest (M9.6 – medium intensity) occurred at 18:35 UTC on March 31. The source was a group of sunspots with high magnetic complexity (Region 2975). This was reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The charged particles emitted by the star reached […]
On April 1, the US space agency (NASA) began preparing its giant Space Launch System rocket, which is designed to carry out manned missions far beyond Earth’s orbit, for key tests. The Space Launch System (SLS) is located at 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (USA). If all goes well, the rocket will […]
One of the most famous and most effective space observatories, Hubble, began operations in 1990 and is still in operation (although it was designed for 15 years). Recently, the telescope made another discovery. The farthest star has detected. Now her name is Earendel. It existed for the first billion years after the birth of the […]
Startup HB11 is working on an alternative approach to nuclear fusion. Instead of temperatures of a million degrees, laser pulses used to trigger the reaction. It appears that the team has succeeded. The first tests of the technology exceeded expectations by ten times. According to HB11, the company is “the only commercial enterprise that has […]
NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong collected lunar dust during the first landing on the surface of an Earth satellite in the history of mankind. Now it will be sold at Bonhams auction as part of a space-themed auction. NASA for several years attempted to ensure that lunar dust did not fall into the hands of a […]
SpaceX will no longer produce new capsules for astronauts of Crew Dragon missions, reports Reuters about the head of the company. Now all resources will be directed to the creation of the next-generation spacecraft. “We are finishing our last (capsule), but we are still producing components for repairs.” — SpaceX President Gwen Shotwell The Crew […]
Last time, the US Federal Aviation Administration promised to issue an opinion on the environmental review – without which it is impossible to proceed to full-fledged testing of the Starship spacecraft – no later than March 25. The new deadline is April 29. If delays from state power continue, SpaceX will have to move from […]