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The May sky continues to amaze Ukrainians with bright nighttime spectacles. Shortly after the superbug outbreak, a new and unusual phenomenon was observed over Kyiv and some other regions last night. The night sky was decorated with a light circle that resembled an eye. In some cases, it also had two spiral arms that diverged […]
SpaceX continues on its path of improving space technology and achieving another record – the 300th successful landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket. This event was another confirmation of the successful implementation of the idea of reusing rocket stages, significantly reducing the cost and increasing the frequency of launches. With the […]
No one will be surprised by the re-entry of Falcon 9 rockets into space today, but last weekend, SpaceX’s main workhorse made a significant and very historic achievement: The F9 B5 stage with the index B1062 completed 20 successful launch-landing cycles. The event itself took place on April 13, 2024, during the Starlink Group 6-49 […]
SpaceX launched the Merah Putih 2 communications satellite into orbit on February 20, Space reports. The Falcon 9 rocket with the satellite was launched from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida at 22:11 Kyiv time. This was the 300th successful mission for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The upper stage of the rocket launched Merah […]
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus robotic spacecraft took a few selfies with the Earth shortly after its launch on February 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket – and we can all see them. “Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted the first images of the IM-1 mission to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were taken shortly after […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has broken its previous annual record for the number of orbital rocket launches, with 96 successful missions in 2023, with an incredible average launch frequency of every four days. This year, SpaceX has made 91 launches using the Falcon 9 rocket and five more using the Falcon Heavy, surpassing its previous annual […]
The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which has conducted a record 19 flights into space, crashed, falling from the platform into the ocean after launch on December 23. SpaceX said on Twitter that new versions of the Falcon 9 will have a system that will prevent such incidents. The first stages of […]
SpaceX has retired one of the most honored launch vehicles with the serial number B1058. This happened immediately after a record 19 launches into space, and return. Of course, the information was posted on social network X (formerly Twitter): The Falcon rocket completed its 19th and final launch and landed on December 23. This reusable […]
On September 24, at 03:38 UTC, a Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the SLC-40 launch complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The carrier sent 22 Starlink v2 mini broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. This was the record 17th flight for the rocket’s first stage: B1060 successfully landed on the Just Read the […]
A SpaceX rocket delivered 22 SpaceX Starlink “V2 Mini” satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 launched from the Space Force Station at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Monday at 8 a.m. Kyiv time. 8.5 minutes after launch, the booster successfully landed on the deck of a ship in the Atlantic Ocean for the sixteenth time, […]