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Relativity Space, a California-based company specializing in 3D-printed rockets, has signed a multi-year contract to launch Intelsat satellites using its future Terran R rocket. Relativity declined to disclose the value of the contract, but said it would add to a total order book of $1.8 billion for nine Terran R customers, which is due to […]
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has presented the results of the first analysis of a soil sample collected as part of the OSIRIS-REx mission from the asteroid Bennu. At NASA’s Space Center in Houston, scientists showed the sample two weeks after the capsule arrived in the Utah desert. First, the cargo was checked […]
The world’s largest radio telescope, FAST, has discovered a new representative of one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena. The world’s largest radio telescope, FAST, located in southwestern China, has detected a new radio signal from deep space, which is a fast radio burst, Xinhua reports. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most […]
A leak occurred in the Russian module attached to the International Space Station, which led to the release of liquid into space. This coolant leak is the third major leak from the Russian spacecraft to occur on the ISS in the last 12 months. In December, NASA had to postpone a spacewalk after a coolant […]
The United Launch Alliance space company has launched the first of 3,200 satellites in the Project Kuiper constellation, which Amazon plans to launch and connect over the next six years. The mission was successful. The two satellites are now online and ready to start working as prototypes to test the technologies of the future Kuiper […]
On October 6, Amazon launched a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral with the first two satellites of the Project Kuiper network – Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2. The satellites deployed into orbit at an altitude of about 500 kilometers about 18 minutes after launch. KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 will allow the company to […]
For a long time, science fiction was filled with stories about humanity living in houses on the Moon. Although it may seem unbelievable, NASA plans to create 3D-printed houses on the moon that will be inhabited by both astronauts and ordinary citizens by 2040. According to a New York Times report, which interviewed seven NASA […]
In microgravity, for example, when you are on the ISS, many familiar things become impossible. For example, you can’t take a coffee maker and pour yourself a cup of drink, because the liquid won’t flow into the cup, but will start to escape in the form of a flying ball. But the knowledge of physics […]
At the end of the decade, the International Space Station (ISS) will reach the end of its useful life. This human creation has been orbiting our planet for more than two decades. So, last year, NASA announced that it was accepting applications for the construction of a new space station. The International Space Station (ISS) […]
AFP (Agence France-Presse) has obtained a document according to which the Wagner PMC has purchased two Chinese satellites for reconnaissance. The agreement in English and Russian was signed on November 15, 2022, between Beijing Yunze Technology Co. and Nika-Fruit LLC, which, according to AFP, was part of the business structures of the founder of the […]