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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 […]
Astronauts have manufactured a human knee meniscus on the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in history, Space reports. They printed the knee meniscus on a 3D printer in cooperation with Redwire. This will improve the treatment of knee joint problems that are common in military personnel and the elderly. “The meniscus has […]
Astronomers were able to find a star in the Universe that is used to generate tsunamis whose height is more than three times the diameter of the Sun. What is known 30 years ago, scientists discovered the MACHO 80.7443.1718 system, which consists of two stars. Now it has become known that huge tsunamis are passing […]
As previously reported, SpaceX is authorized to launch 12,000 satellites and has applied for permission to launch another 30,000 Starlink satellites. This is a huge number. SpaceX launches satellites into space in batches of 56 and 22 satellites at a time, depending on the version of the satellite. Starlink v1.5 is much smaller than Starlink […]
Ukrainian Vlad Sazhen has discovered a new nebula in the constellation Cepheus and named it “Fallen Soldier” in honor of the memory of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the discoverer himself reported on AstroBin. In the course of his long research, he found out that this nebula is illuminated by a double star BD+69 1319. It also […]
China is preparing to send danyo fish to the Tiangong space station to study how they and other microorganisms interact in a small, closed ecosystem. This study also aims to investigate the possible loss of bone density in astronauts during prolonged exposure to microgravity, which could be a problem for future space missions. This is […]
Space equipment collects the sun’s rays, converts them into electricity, and then sends them over a long distance in the form of ultra-precise microwaves. For the first time in history, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) were able to transmit solar energy from space to Earth without wires. They reported on their experiment […]
A Chinese satellite launched in 2018 is checking on other countries’ spacecraft high above the Earth in geostationary orbit. The Tongxin Jishu Shiyan Weixing-3 (TJS-3), vaguely described as an experimental communications satellite, has made close encounters with U.S. satellites in recent months. The Orbital Focus Twitter account notes that the TJS-3 satellite was drifting along […]
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) set a new record on September 26. It launched the Falcon 9 rocket with the heaviest payload in history. Currently, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is the only medium-lift rocket capable of landing and being reused. It has become a real workhorse for the company for various missions, such as Starlink satellite […]
Some stars say goodbye to life by burning up and exploding as supernovae, while others inflate and eject material before contracting and cooling. However, there are also those who face a more tragic fate – they are torn apart and devoured by a hungry black hole. Such an event happens only a few times every […]