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NASA has shown a photo of two dwarf tomatoes that were lost 8 months ago on the International Space Station (ISS), Space.com reports. In the photo, you can see how the 17% humidity on board the ISS affected the food that was in a special Ziploc bag. Despite the fact that almost a year had […]
The growing activity of the Sun, which is already affecting radio communications on Earth, will cause the NEOWISE space telescope to burn up in the atmosphere of our planet. The reason for this is the heating and expansion of the atmosphere from solar activity, which leads to faster deceleration of objects in orbit. NEOWISE is […]
NASA has shown a video of the Orion spacecraft entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour . This is what astronauts returning from the Moon will see. In December 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully returned to Earth after flying around the Moon. A year later, the mission team showed […]
This week, NASA reached an important milestone. The two newest vehicles have spent 1000 Martian days on Mars. What is known The Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity unmanned aerial vehicle landed on the surface of the Red Planet on February 18, 2021. December 13, 2023 marked the 1000th Martian day (sol) on Mars for them. […]
On December 14, China launched its secret reusable spaceplane on its third-ever mission, Space.com reports. A Long March 2F rocket with a spaceplane on board was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The mission will conduct scientific experiments in space. Little is known about the Chinese reusable spaceplane Shenlong, or “Divine Dragon.” It is […]
Amazon, which launched its first Project Kuiper Internet satellites in October, says it will use space lasers to provide reliable broadband coverage even in the middle of the ocean. This technology will enable the satellite to deliver data to the cruise ship even if the spacecraft is out of range of Amazon’s Internet-connected ground station. […]
SpaceX has scheduled the launch of a new batch of its Starlink Internet satellites for December 15. The company announced this on its website. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites will be launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This batch of satellites will include six of the latest devices with Direct […]
On Thursday, December 14, a NASA spacecraft detected a huge pulse of energy radiation. The sun has released the most powerful flare since September 2017. About this he writes Space.com. “The flare, which occurred at 12:02 a.m., is registered as X2.8, making it the most powerful solar flare since September 2017,” the report said. Sun […]
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, which carries the X-37B reusable unmanned spacecraft, has been unable to launch for the third day in a row. What’s the problem? Initially, the launch was scheduled for December 11, but SpaceX postponed the launch due to a problem in the ground system and rescheduled it for the evening of the […]
A new video published by the agency shows the Orion spacecraft re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 11 kilometers per second, which is 32 times the speed of sound. The footage was shot as part of the Artemis-1 mission last year and became one of the most impressive of the entire year. A […]