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The four astronauts who participated in the private space mission Ax-2 returned to Earth from the ISS today at 06:04 Kyiv time (03:04 GMT), completing a ten-day trip that included eight days on the space station. The capsule, named Freedom, was floated in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The mission was […]
The American company SpaceX plans to launch three more batches of mini-satellites into orbit by the end of May to replenish the orbital grouping of the global Internet coverage network Starlink. This follows from the data of the specialized publication Spaceflight Now. In May, SpaceX has already launched two Starlink Internet satellites. The last one […]
Recently, a Chinese reusable spacecraft returned to Earth. It spent more than six months traveling. The spacecraft took off on August 4, 2022. It was launched using a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan launch site in China. This was the second orbital journey for this spacecraft. The mysterious mission, about which there is […]
So far, the company has shown the design of only one module of the space station, but it is very interesting. In 2030, the International Space Station will end its operation. That is why NASA is actively working with private contractors to create its successors to the ISS. Currently, the main players in this market […]
Elon Musk has revealed some information about the first orbital flight of the Starship rocket system. As it turned out, the explosion was delayed. SpaceX launched the Starship spacecraft with a Super Heavy rocket (in both cases, prototypes were used) on April 20. The test went wrong from the very beginning. During the launch, the […]
SpaceX waited for the right weather conditions and sent three satellites into space using a Falcon Heavy. This is only the sixth mission in the history of Elon Musk’s big rocket. Over the weekend, we wrote that SpaceX had postponed the launch of the mission due to dense fog. The Falcon Heavy was launched on […]
SpaceX has finally sent a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. 46 spacecraft were launched only on the third attempt. The launch was originally scheduled for April 25, but had to be postponed to April 26. Then the launch was postponed for another day. On April 27, despite the thick fog, the Falcon 9 […]
SpaceX has completed its 23rd successful launch since the beginning of 2023. The Falcon 9 rocket launched the Intelsat40e satellite from Maxar Technologies into orbit. The launch took place on April 7 at 07:30 (EET). This was the fourth launch for the first stage, which returned to Earth and landed in the Atlantic Ocean. The […]
It looks like the first orbital flight of the Starship spacecraft is just around the corner. SpaceX has already sent it to the launch pad in Texas. Elon Musk has postponed the date of the spacecraft’s orbital flight several times. Recently, the SpaceX CEO said that the first flight would be a failure with a […]
SpaceX has put on a double St. Patrick’s Day celebration by launching two orbital missions in one day on Friday (March 17). The show began at 3:26 p.m. ET (21:26 Kyiv time) when SpaceX launched 52 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from the U.S. Space Force’s Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Broadcast of the […]