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A probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) called Solar Orbiter (launched in 2020) took unique images of the sun from the nearest distance. The photos taken on March 7, when the spacecraft was at an equal distance from both Earth and our star — 75 […]
Changes in the company’s pricing policy affected both the launch part of the business and the Starlink satellite system. The company attributed the adjustment to inflation: according to data from the US Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on March 10, the country’s inflation rate over the past 12 months was 7.9%, reaching a forty-year-high. “The […]
After the start of Russia’s open invasion of Ukraine, Dmitry Rogozin threatened the United States to terminate the contract for the operation of the ISS. Ars Technica space editor Eric Berger, who also holds an astronomer’s degree from the University of Texas, analyzed the technical and legal possibilities of Russia’s withdrawal from the Intergovernmental Agreement […]
Orbital tests of the next-generation spacecraft, which the private company SpaceX is building in Texas, may take place in May. As Elon Musk wrote on Twitter, The Raptor engines will be ready in April, it will take another month to install and debug them, after which the Super Heavy launch vehicle will be able to […]
Artificial intelligence technology is no longer something new and unexpected. Today it is used in a wide range of areas and this is just the beginning. Scientists also use algorithms to find drugs. As is often the case, technology has its own “evil” side. So, scientists from Collaborations Pharmaceuticals managed to invert the purpose of […]
The British company OneWeb, which creates the global satellite internet system of the same name to compete with Starlink, has signed an agreement with a direct competitor — the American SpaceX Elon Musk. This will allow OneWeb to resume launching its own internet satellites after the termination of cooperation with Russia’s Roscosmos-on Falcon 9 launch […]
On March 19, SpaceX made the eleventh launch of the Falcon 9 rocket this year. as part of the Starlink-4.12 mission, the carrier successfully launched a batch of 53 Starlink vehicles into 320-kilometer orbit. The last launch set several new records for SpaceX. First, the total weight of its payload was 16,250 kg. This is […]
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is already able to compete with traditional providers. According to a report from Ookla, the provider of Speedtest, the largest network quality measurement platform, Starlink’s average speed in 15 key markets rose to more than 104 MBps in the fourth quarter of 2021. Thus, the service from SpaceX became the […]
NASA said that the initial focusing stage of the main mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully completed. Recently, the image of the target star from all 18 segments was reduced to one, and now focusing has been performed. Interestingly, when the specialists finished focusing the mirror, they were surprised by the […]
On Saturday, March 19, SpaceX launched a batch of 53 Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. According to Channel 24, the launch took place at 6:42 Kyiv time from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched and landed the first stage. The satellites have also successfully reached their destination. Now […]