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On the night of December 15, another incident occurred in the Russian part of the International Space Station (ISS) – as a result of an unknown event, a ‘significant leak of an unknown substance’ occurred from the aft part of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which is currently docked with the ‘Dawn’ module. In view of […]
SpaceX continues to prepare the Starship for its first test flight, which does not appear to take place this year. However, everyone is sure that preparations for landing on the moon are going according to plan. Bill Nelson, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said that he is in constant contact with […]
The ambitious plans of the Russian authorities to dramatically increase the production of satellites and assemble the Sphere group of 500 devices for civil and defense needs into orbit have met with failure. In Russia, there is an acute shortage of xenon, an inert gas that is used as ‘fuel’ for the on-board engines of […]
Startup Promin Aerospace from Ukraine, despite the ongoing war with Russia, is preparing for the first flight test of a launch vehicle. Despite the war, the company intends to conduct tests of technology for launching small satellites in early 2023. This was announced by Misha Rudominskyi, CEO and co-founder of the startup Promin Aerospace. The […]
December 7, NASA’s Orion spacecraft made its final flyby of the Moon before returning to Earth, and NASA has released some of the best photos taken from the spacecraft. Taken with a high-resolution camera (actually a heavily modified GoPro Hero 4) mounted on the tip of Orion’s solar arrays, these images show the spacecraft orbiting […]
Promin Aerospace, a small launch vehicle startup, was founded in 2021. Promin continues to plan to conduct the first test of its own small satellite launch technology early next year, despite the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. ‘Over the past 10 months, we have done a lot of research, development and production, and in August, we hired […]
Astronomers from Johns Hopkins University have created an interactive map of the universe that allows you to look at more than 200,000 galaxies. The map, which can be found on its own website, is one of the first times the public has had access to such a body of data. This data was previously available […]
In the coming days, we will have a lot of information about how the first lunar mission in 50 years is going. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was finally able to launch a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the Orion spacecraft took a photo of Earth from space. A spacecraft developed by […]
After many cancellations and postponements, the space agency NASA has finally launched the Space Launch System rocket as part of the Artemis I mission. Previous attempts were hampered by technical problems and weather conditions. Preparations for the launch of the SLS rocket took more than ten years. This rocket launch marks NASA’s return to manned […]
The Boeing X-37B military space drone has completed a record-breaking flight that began in May 2020. The drone spent more than two years (908 days) in orbit as part of the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) mission. No one knows what he did. Mission OTV-6 Very little is known about Boeing’s unmanned space vehicle. We know […]