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NASA has shown a video of the Orion spacecraft entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour . This is what astronauts returning from the Moon will see. In December 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully returned to Earth after flying around the Moon. A year later, the mission team showed […]
This week, NASA reached an important milestone. The two newest vehicles have spent 1000 Martian days on Mars. What is known The Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity unmanned aerial vehicle landed on the surface of the Red Planet on February 18, 2021. December 13, 2023 marked the 1000th Martian day (sol) on Mars for them. […]
On Thursday, December 14, a NASA spacecraft detected a huge pulse of energy radiation. The sun has released the most powerful flare since September 2017. About this he writes Space.com. “The flare, which occurred at 12:02 a.m., is registered as X2.8, making it the most powerful solar flare since September 2017,” the report said. Sun […]
A new video published by the agency shows the Orion spacecraft re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 11 kilometers per second, which is 32 times the speed of sound. The footage was shot as part of the Artemis-1 mission last year and became one of the most impressive of the entire year. A […]
SpaceX has made two attempts to launch the Starship spacecraft into orbit. As part of the third test, the aerospace company and NASA plan to test the refueling technology in orbit. NASA wants to test the viability of the concept of orbital refueling of the spacecraft. At the same time, the agency has not yet […]
SpaceX has made two attempts to launch the Starship spacecraft into orbit. As part of the third test, the aerospace company and NASA plan to test the refueling technology in orbit. NASA wants to test the viability of the concept of orbital refueling of the spacecraft. At the same time, the agency has not yet […]
NASA’s interplanetary station Psyche has transmitted the first images from its cameras to Earth. Calibration and testing showed that the multispectral cameras (the spacecraft has two identical ones) are working within normal limits and are ready to perform the mission. Checking other systems also raised no questions. The device will begin its scientific work in […]
NASA’s Chandra Space X-ray Observatory has detected a cluster of pulsars, or “spiders,” that are swallowing up their satellite stars in the Omega Centauri globular cluster, Space.com reports. The observations should help scientists better understand how rapidly rotating neutron stars, called “spiders,” consume their neighbors, destroying the surrounding stars with intense radiation. The five spider […]
Recently, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration showed the first image of a habitation module that could become the first permanent human base on the Moon. The module is called Multi-Purpose Habitat (MPH). The “multi-purpose habitat”, which looks like a ten-meter-long cylindrical structure with telescopic supports and solar panels, was developed by the Franco-Italian […]
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the latest news from Mars. NASA’s Odyssey orbiter captured an unusual view of the Mars horizon with a camera. The department itself called the photos “stunning.” The images were taken from an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers above the surface of Mars, at about the […]