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SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites commissioned by the US intelligence agency under a contract that remains secret, Reuters reports. This project shows the strengthening of ties between Elon Musk’s company and national security agencies shortly before the US elections. Under the leadership of a SpaceX business unit called Starshield, a […]
On March 14, Elon Musk’s company conducted the third test of the Starship transportation system. SpaceX engineers managed to achieve a number of important breakthroughs during the last launch: they opened and closed the Starship’s cargo bay, conducted a fuel pumping test (it is not yet known how successful it was), but failed to bring […]
SpaceX’s Starship megastar, the world’s largest and most powerful rocket, reached orbital velocity for the first time on Thursday during its historic third test flight from South Texas. Watch Starship’s third flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/1u46r769Vp – SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2024 Hundreds of spectators, rocket launch enthusiasts and SpaceX fans gathered to watch the […]
The railgun was invented to accelerate projectiles with the help of ampere power. This is usually understood as a weapon of the future, but this technology can be used not only for shooting. Chinese scientists and engineers are going to combine recent advances in electromagnetic acceleration and hypersonic flight to launch heavy aircraft into space. […]
SpaceX has announced the loss of the Starship, which was launched as part of the third test flight. The broadcast was conducted on the page in the social network X. The ship was launched from the Texas coast. It was reported that the launch itself and the first phase of the flight went perfectly, the […]
The launch of Space One’s first private Japanese launch vehicle, Kairos, turned into a disaster. A few seconds after the successful launch from the spaceport in Wakayama Prefecture, an explosion occurred and the rocket crashed into the mountains nearby. The launch footage clearly shows a powerful column of black smoke rising above the site of […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized SpaceX to use E-band frequencies between Starlink’s second-generation satellites and ground gateways, along with the already approved Ka and Ku bands. In particular, SpaceX is now allowed to communicate at 71-76 GHz from space to Earth and at 81-86 GHz from Earth to space, using up to 7,500 […]
The long-awaited manned flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner is delayed once again. Its launch was originally planned for the end of April (or rather, not earlier than April 22), but it was recently postponed to the first half of May. However, unlike numerous previous postponements (lasting several years), this change in schedules is not […]
A 2.9-ton cargo pallet used for a battery modernization mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is flying toward Earth. It will soon re-enter the planet’s atmosphere, Gizmodo reports. The pallet was ejected from the ISS in 2021 and is expected to disintegrate in the atmosphere. However, Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell notes that the pallet […]
On March 5, SpaceX launched a large batch of satellites into orbit for various private customers, says Space. The Transporter-10 mission was launched at 00:05 Kyiv time from Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 rocket launched 53 satellites into various orbits, including the Jackal satellite from True […]