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Scientists have published a new photo of the “Devil’s Comet” approaching the Earth. A hidden spiral of light was spotted around its core This was reported by Livesciense. The “Devil’s Comet” is due to pass by the Earth later this year. “The comet, called 12P/Pons-Brooks (Devil’s Comet – ed.), is a 17 km wide ball […]
Interlune, a startup founded by former Blue Origin executives and an Apollo 17 astronaut, has ambitious plans to extract natural resources from the Moon and sell them on Earth. The company’s primary goal is helium-3, an isotope of helium found in large quantities on the Moon that can be used in quantum computing, medical imaging, […]
SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites commissioned by the US intelligence agency under a contract that remains secret, Reuters reports. This project shows the strengthening of ties between Elon Musk’s company and national security agencies shortly before the US elections. Under the leadership of a SpaceX business unit called Starshield, a […]
On March 14, Elon Musk’s company conducted the third test of the Starship transportation system. SpaceX engineers managed to achieve a number of important breakthroughs during the last launch: they opened and closed the Starship’s cargo bay, conducted a fuel pumping test (it is not yet known how successful it was), but failed to bring […]
SpaceX’s Starship megastar, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital velocity for the first time on Thursday during its historic third test flight from South Texas. Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp – SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024 Hundreds of spectators, rocket launch enthusiasts and SpaceX fans gathered to watch the […]
In Iceland and Norway, a strange unnatural phenomenon was recorded in the night sky – it resembled a spiral galaxy or an alien ship. An object in the form of a blue spiral that suddenly appeared and then disappeared just as quickly. This was reported by the Daily Mai. The mysterious spiral has a simple […]
SpaceX has announced the loss of the Starship, which was launched as part of the third test flight. The broadcast was conducted on the page in the social network X. The ship was launched from the Texas coast. It was reported that the launch itself and the first phase of the flight went perfectly, the […]
The rare Pons-Brooks comet, or horned devil comet, will pass overhead in the coming weeks. Last year in July, due to an unexpected outbreak, the comet became about 100 times brighter, and the cloud of dust and gas surrounding its nucleus (coma) expanded and began to resemble a horseshoe shape, Space.com notes. Because of this, […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized SpaceX to use E-band frequencies between Starlink’s second-generation satellites and ground gateways, along with the already approved Ka and Ku bands. In particular, SpaceX is now allowed to communicate at 71-76 GHz from space to Earth and at 81-86 GHz from Earth to space, using up to 7,500 […]
The long-awaited manned flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner is delayed once again. Its launch was originally planned for the end of April (or rather, not earlier than April 22), but it was recently postponed to the first half of May. However, unlike numerous previous postponements (lasting several years), this change in schedules is not […]