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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 40 OneWeb satellites into orbit. It is a competitor to the Starlink network created by SpaceX. The Falcon 9 launch took place on January 9 at 23:50 EST (6:50 January 10 Kyiv time) from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/xYOwyBucPi — SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 10, 2023 The Falcon […]
On January 3, during the Transporter-6 mission, SpaceX launched into space not only the Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-HP-30, but also the first satellite of the EOSDA constellation of the EOS Data Analytics company. It is a product company operating in the field of commercial space, with a head office in the USA and development centers in […]
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink 5-1 satellite cluster — the first generation 2 (Gen2) of SpaceX’s internet satellites — is scheduled to launch at 4:30 a.m. ET (11:30 a.m. ET) from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida. . You can watch the launch live in the header of this article, […]
SpaceX continues to prepare the Starship for its first test flight, which does not appear to take place this year. However, everyone is sure that preparations for landing on the moon are going according to plan. Bill Nelson, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), said that he is in constant contact with […]
SpaceX does not receive any money from the US Department of Defense for providing the Starlink satellite Internet service in Ukraine, and the terminals are paid for by several other countries, organizations and patrons, Elon Musk says. SpaceX spends about 20 million dollars every month to support the Starlink Internet service in Ukraine. The company […]
Yesterday it became known that Elon Musk’s company SpaceX will no longer be able to finance Starlink in Ukraine and has asked the US Department of Defense to allocate funds to ensure the operation of satellite Internet. According to the company, the financing of services amounts to more than $120 million by the end of […]
The Crew-5 mission successfully launched on October 5 at noon EST and the first stage launch vehicle landed on the autonomous drone ship. The crew is currently en route to the ISS. The launch was delayed for several days due to the devastating Hurricane Ian that passed through Florida last week, and today the historic […]
NASA’s $324.5 million DART mission, which launched last year, is nearing its dramatic climax — on the night of September 27, one of the automated probes is expected to collide with the asteroid satellite Dimorphos at a speed of 6,258.56 m/s. This is the first attempt by mankind to deflect an astronomical object in this […]
SpaceX wants to show the world that its Starlink satellite system can provide access to Netflix and YouTube at an altitude of 9,000 meters above the ground. To do this, the company conducted a test flight with the aircraft of its first client, the regional airline JSX. Journalists from Bloomberg and other publications took part […]
Ukrainian drone manufacturer DroneUA agreed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to supply charging stations. Valery Yakovenko, co-founder of the company, told about this in the podcast “Pain of Ukrainian IT”. “We discovered a new direction – energy independence. It’s the ability to store energy and use it when it’s needed,” he said. The company’s new product […]