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The Italian fashion house Prada will team up with the American company Axiom Space to develop spacesuits for the Artemis III mission. This was reported by the Axiom Space press service. The NASA mission crew is scheduled to land on the Moon in 2025. “Prada’s ever-forward-thinking spirit for humanity has expanded to include its desire […]
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio has successfully completed his mission and returned to Earth, setting a new record for the longest time an American astronaut has been in orbit. This is reported by NASA and The Times. It is noted that the man spent 371 days in orbit. Rubio, along with his Russian colleagues, cosmonauts Sergei […]
Ingenuity – a helicopter on Mars that has reached historic heights The Ingenuity Martian helicopter has made another successful flight on the Red Planet and reached a new record altitude. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reported that it happened on September 16 – Ingenuity rose 20 meters and spent 142 seconds in flight. It was his […]
A photo of the “grave” of the Russian station was published. The U.S. National Space Agency (NASA) has published fresh images of the moon’s surface, which showed the appearance of a new crater. According to scientists, this crater could have been caused by the crash of the Russian Luna-25 spacecraft. A message about this observation […]
TransAstra signed a contract with NASA for $850 thousand. to create a prototype bag for capturing space debris in orbit. The developer plans to go much further than collecting and burning garbage in the Earth’s atmosphere. Together with ThinkOrbital, he plans to create a factory complex in orbit to recover and recycle the collected garbage […]
NASA has captured an image of a black hole tearing apart a large star as a result of a “tidal event,” as astronomers call it. This is a greatly enlarged version of the effect in which the moon’s gravity causes tides in the ocean on Earth, the Mirror reports. The black hole was named ASASSN-14li. […]
On Sunday, August 27, the SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon spacecraft, launched as part of NASA’s space mission, docked with the space station with four astronauts on board This was reported by NASA. “Docking confirmed for Crew-7! At 16:16 hours, the Dragon spacecraft with four space travelers on board arrived at the ISS,” the statement said. Hear […]
Ingenuity recently made its 53rd flight over the surface of Mars. As it turned out, it almost ended in the crash of a Martian drone. NASA planned to conduct five Ingenuity flights. Despite the fact that the target was exceeded, the agency does not intend to lose the drone prematurely. In case of an emergency, […]
NASA has completed the first fire tests of rocket engines that will be used in the Mars Sample Return mission to deliver samples of Martian soil to Earth. What is known Northrop Grumman is developing the SRM1 and SRM2 solid propellant engines for NASA. The first stage power plant will be equipped with frost-resistant nozzles. […]
Last month, SpaceX postponed the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket with the Jupiter-3 satellite several times. This negatively affected the schedule of the Crew-7 mission for NASA. NASA planned to send a crew to the International Space Station on August 15. However, SpaceX announced that the launch was postponed to August 23. Earlier, it […]