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The British company OneWeb, which creates the global satellite internet system of the same name to compete with Starlink, has signed an agreement with a direct competitor — the American SpaceX Elon Musk. This will allow OneWeb to resume launching its own internet satellites after the termination of cooperation with Russia’s Roscosmos-on Falcon 9 launch […]
On March 19, SpaceX made the eleventh launch of the Falcon 9 rocket this year. as part of the Starlink-4.12 mission, the carrier successfully launched a batch of 53 Starlink vehicles into 320-kilometer orbit. The last launch set several new records for SpaceX. First, the total weight of its payload was 16,250 kg. This is […]
Elon Musk’s satellite internet service is already able to compete with traditional providers. According to a report from Ookla, the provider of Speedtest, the largest network quality measurement platform, Starlink’s average speed in 15 key markets rose to more than 104 MBps in the fourth quarter of 2021. Thus, the service from SpaceX became the […]
NASA said that the initial focusing stage of the main mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully completed. Recently, the image of the target star from all 18 segments was reduced to one, and now focusing has been performed. Interestingly, when the specialists finished focusing the mirror, they were surprised by the […]
On Saturday, March 19, SpaceX launched a batch of 53 Starlink Internet satellites into low Earth orbit. According to Channel 24, the launch took place at 6:42 Kyiv time from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched and landed the first stage. The satellites have also successfully reached their destination. Now […]
Meeting in Paris on 16-17 March, the Governing Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) assessed the situation caused by the war in Ukraine and decided to suspend cooperation with the Russian space agency Roscosmos under the ExoMars program. “As an intergovernmental organization authorized to develop and implement space programs in full compliance with European […]
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the space observatory has reached another important stage of preparation for full-fledged work. All 18 mirrors are now aligned enough to act as one powerful mirror. The NASA space agency has published a “selfie” of the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as an updated […]
On February 15 at 16:22 UTC, a Rocket 3.3 rocket was launched from the Pacific Spaceport site on Kodiak Island (Alaska). Carrier number LV0009 sent a payload for three clients into solar-synchronous orbit: NearSpace Launch equipment inseparably attached to the second stage, Portland Aerospace Cubs, and some cargo in favor of an unknown customer. The […]