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Nikon, together with the NASA space agency, is creating a special camera that will be used by astronauts during the Artemis III mission, which aims to return humans to the moon. The camera is called HULC (Handheld Universal Lunar Camera) and is a modified version of the flagship Nikon Z9 mirrorless camera with Nikkor lenses. […]
About 20 meters of space in Earth’s orbit saved the American NASA satellite TIMED from colliding with the inoperable Russian Cosmos-2221 spacecraft. LeoLabs announced this on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The company said that the collision between the two satellites almost occurred around 04:30 Kyiv time. The LeoLabs equipment recorded that at the […]
During the close approach of 2008 OS7 to the Earth on February 2, the Deep Space Network’s planetary radar collected the first detailed images of the stadium-sized asteroid. On February 2, a large asteroid flew safely past the Earth at a distance of approximately 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers, or 7.5 times the distance […]
Poland plans to launch a series of military surveillance satellites into orbit in 2025, Reuters reports. “Next year, the Ministry of Defense and the Armed Forces of Poland will launch the first Polish satellites into orbit” Deputy Minister of Defense of Poland Cezary Tomczyk According to Tomczyk, Poland plans to purchase a satellite system equipped […]
By 2050, Mars will be home to at least a million people. They will be delivered there by a flotilla of Starship spacecraft. This is the biggest dream of the American inventor and billionaire Elon Musk, which he shared a few years ago on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The talented engineer, who is […]
NASA has shown radar images showing a stadium-sized asteroid flying past the Earth, Space reports. Asteroid 2008 OS7 flew past the Earth on February 2 at a distance of 2.9 million km, which is about 7.5 times further than the distance between the Earth and the Moon. Although there was no risk that the asteroid […]
About a month after SpaceX sent their first text message using the Starlink direct communication satellite in space, Elon Musk’s company announced that for the first time, they can publish posts on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) using a mobile phone using their own satellite services. This post was sent via a SpaceX […]
NASA astronaut Jasmine Mogbeli has taken pictures of the green aurora from the International Space Station (ISS), Space reports. “The aurora borealis is spectacular from here” Jasmine Mogbeli Mogbeli saw the aurora on February 15. She noted that it was one of the highlights of her space mission. The Aurora Borealis occurs on Earth when […]
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket was lifted to the launch pad for the first time in preparation for its maiden flight this year. A spaceflight company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has released a photo showing a rocket at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Blue Origin described the […]
The Odysseus spacecraft from Intuitive Machines has successfully landed on the Moon, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so. NASA announced this on Twitter. This is the first American vehicle since the Apollo missions to reach this point. Odysseus carried NASA instruments that will be used to prepare manned missions to the Moon in […]