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On July 29, at 03:04 UTC (06:04 Kyiv time), a satellite was launched from the LC-39A pad of the Konstantinov Space Center. A Falcon Heavy rocket was launched at JFK. The super-heavy-class carrier launched the EchoStar 24 spacecraft into a geotransition orbit. The satellite weighs 9200 kilograms and has a communication channel capacity of 500 […]
On July 28, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and launched 22 Starlink Internet satellites into Earth orbit, Space reports. The Falcon 9 was launched at 07:01 Kyiv time from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. Approximately 8.5 minutes after launch, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth and landed on the A Shortfall of […]
Ukrainian Vlad Sazhen has discovered a new nebula in the constellation Cepheus and named it “Fallen Soldier” in honor of the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the discoverer himself reported on AstroBin. In the course of his long research, he found out that this nebula is illuminated by a double star BD+69 1319. It also […]
The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket was scheduled for July 27 at 06:04 Kyiv time from Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but for unknown reasons, the team canceled the launch 65 seconds before launch, Space reports. According to the company, the next launch attempt is scheduled for July 28 at […]
SpaceX has scheduled a Falcon Heavy rocket launch for July 26 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space reports. The Falcon Heavy launch is scheduled to take place at 06:04 Kyiv time, and the live broadcast will be available on Space.com. This mission will be the seventh for the Falcon Heavy rocket, which was […]
China launched a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on July 20 at 6:20 a.m. Kyiv time to deliver four new satellites belonging to the Tianmu-1 meteorological group in Earth orbit, English.News reports. The satellites are designed to provide commercial meteorological data transmission services. The first launch of the Kuaizhou-1A rocket took place […]
Halves of 10 minutes and a ball that is not inflated with air. Football on the Moon will look completely different from what we are used to seeing on Earth. Scientists from the UK’s Institute of Engineering and Technology believe that the first football match could take place on the Moon in 12 years, as […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 Starlink satellites into orbit on July 20 and landed safely on a ship at sea, Space reports. The Falcon 9 was originally scheduled to launch on July 19, but was canceled five seconds before launch after receiving a signal from the upper stage of the rocket. However, on July […]
Ever since the instrument of India’s Chandrayaan 1 mission detected water molecules almost 15 years ago, the search for ice at the poles has been a priority in the study of the moon. NASA has now begun assembling a breakthrough instrument, the VIPER lunar rover, ArsTechnica reports. NASA started building VIPER rover to search for […]
NASA has started qualification tests of the engine for the Lunar Gateway station. In the coming years, it will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program. The developer of the powerplant is Aerojet Rocketdyne. The electric rocket motor has a power of 12 kW, making it the most powerful unit of this class […]