It appears that the first commercial launch of Blue Origin’s upcoming giant rocket, New Glenn, will be headed to Mars. The American space agency NASA stated this week that it will likely be their Mars satellites “Escapade” that will be the payload for New Glenn’s first launch. Escapade (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) […]
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Check out a replay of Starship’s launch
This past weekend, SpaceX tested launching its spacecraft Starship with the accompanying Super Heavy booster for the second time. If you missed how it looked, you can check out a clip showing the launch from some new angles below. The launch did not go entirely as SpaceX had hoped. The separation between Starship and Super […]
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SpaceX plans to test Starship tomorrow
SpaceX has now received permission to launch its spacecraft Starship into space again. This will be the second time SpaceX tries to get Starship into space after they failed to do so in the first test conducted in April this year. After the first test of Starship, the American Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) considered that […]
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Impulse Space Launches Satellite with Engine into Space
SpaceX has carried out another so-called Transporter mission, an offering that allows companies to send smaller satellites into space in a kind of carpool program. On board SpaceX’s latest Transporter mission was a satellite from the American company Impulse Space Propulsion, a company that develops engines for satellites so that they can reach their desired […]
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It’s almost time for a second test of Starship
SpaceX has announced that a second test to send their spacecraft Starship to space could take place as soon as the end of this week. On their website, SpaceX writes that they might conduct a new test with Starship on Friday, November 17, if they receive permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to […]
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NASA plans to build houses on the moon by around 2040
NASA’s moon landing program, Artemis, is seen by many as a step toward building humanity’s first space colonies, something that seems to be becoming a reality in a decade or so. NASA has told The New York Times that it has already begun planning to construct houses on the moon sometime around 2040. NASA’s project […]
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Astronaut Frank Rubio back on Earth
Yesterday, American astronaut Frank Rubio, along with the two cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed after spending a record-breaking amount of time aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The three departed from Earth on September 21, 2022, and spent 371 days in space before returning to Earth. This makes Frank Rubio the American astronaut […]
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Capsule with asteroid samples has landed on Earth
Yesterday, the asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) returned to Earth after spending seven years in space. During these years, the spacecraft traveled to the asteroid Bennu, collected a sample from it, and then returned to Earth. In total, OSIRIS-REx traveled about 6.2 million kilometers on its round trip journey […]
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NASA Seeks Help in Decommissioning ISS
In a few years, the International Space Station (ISS) will be retired, and NASA is currently working on a plan for its decommissioning. NASA is seeking assistance from the private space sector, among other things, to develop a spacecraft capable of moving the ISS out of its orbit around Earth so that it can re-enter […]
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AST Mobile makes 5G calls via satellite
AST SpaceMobile, the company aiming to establish a space-based mobile network, announced today that it has successfully made a 5G call for the first time using its massive test satellite, BlueWalker 3. The 5G call was conducted on September 8th between a standard model of the Samsung Galaxy S22 in Hawaii and one of Vodafone’s […]
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Varda Space capsule cannot return to Earth
The American space company Varda Space Industries has encountered some issues with the space capsule they launched into space earlier this year. The plan was for the capsule to return to Earth after testing the production of various drugs in a weightless state in space. Apparently, Varda had not obtained permission from the U.S. Federal […]
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Venezuela’s president announces plans to travel to the moon
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated in an announcement that Venezuela intends to send astronauts to the moon in a Chinese spacecraft. This statement follows Venezuela’s participation in the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) collaboration. ILRS is initiated by Russia and China as a response to the U.S.-led Artemis moon program. In addition to China, Russia, […]
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Stoke Space Takes a Small Leap Toward Space
The American space company Stoke Space, which is developing a fully reusable rocket model, conducted a test of the upper rocket stage of its future rocket for the first time yesterday. The prototype of the rocket stage is called Hopper 2, and in the video below, you can see how it lifted about four meters […]
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Nasa to study UFO observations
The American space agency NASA has decided to scientifically investigate observations of UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), as NASA and other US agencies prefer to call them. In recent years, UFO sightings have once again become a debated topic in the USA, with some claiming they have extraterrestrial origins. However, there is no evidence […]
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Fourth season of For All Mankind on the way
Apple has just released a teaser trailer for the fourth season of For All Mankind, the TV series that follows an alternate history of the US and Soviet space programs. The trailer is designed as a recruitment advertisement for the space company Helios and is voiced by the aged Edward Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman), who also […]
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SpaceX must address issues with Starship before the next flight
Last week, SpaceX announced that they were once again ready to attempt the launch of their spacecraft, Starship, into space and were awaiting approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to do so. However, at the end of last week, the FAA announced that it would take some time before SpaceX receives approval to […]
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NASA concludes its oxygen experiment on Mars
NASA announced at the end of last week that it has now concluded its Moxie project, an experiment to generate oxygen that was sent to Mars along with NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in 2021. Moxie (Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment) has been tested to generate oxygen on Mars 16 times over […]
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Japan has launched two space missions
Earlier today, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched two exciting spacecraft into space. One of them is the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), intended to make a soft landing on the moon in early 2024. It’s a relatively small moon lander that carries two mini-rovers to explore the area around the Shioli crater […]
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The U.S. Department of Defense has launched a new UFO-website
The U.S. Department of Defense has launched a new website where it has gathered observations of UFOs, or UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), as they prefer to call them. In addition to videos and details about UAP observations, there is also some statistics available regarding these observations. This includes information about the most commonly reported shapes […]
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Four astronauts back on Earth
Yesterday, four astronauts returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth. The returning astronauts included the two NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Roscosmos astronaut Andrey Fedyaev, and Sultan Alneyadi from the United Arab Emirates, who returned on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission. While aboard the ISS, they were part of Expedition 68 / […]
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India’s moon rover has entered sleep mode
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced last Saturday that their rover Pragyan, which landed on the moon two weeks ago, has now entered sleep mode. This occurred as one of the moon’s two-week-long nights set in. Pragyan is powered by an electric motor, with its batteries being charged by the spacecraft’s built-in solar panels. […]
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India Sends Spacecraft to the Sun
After India’s successful moon landing two weeks ago, the country firmly established itself as one of the world’s leading space nations. This weekend marked another milestone for India’s space endeavors, as it set its sights on the sun. On Saturday, the spacecraft Aditya-L1 lifted off from the Indian spaceport on Sriharikota Island. Aditya-L1 is now […]
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Advanced telescopes targeted by cyberattacks
The U.S. National Science Foundation has reported that cyberattacks against their National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) have resulted in the suspension of observation activities at two of their most advanced telescopes. The affected telescopes are NOIRLab’s Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii, shown in the image above, and the Gemini South Telescope in Chile. Several […]
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How to manufacture things in space?
In the future, a new manufacturing industry is expected to launch in space, and CNBC has produced a report on how this will happen and what we can expect. According to a report by consulting firm McKinsey & Co, the market for space-manufactured products could reach $10 billion by 2030. The idea behind manufacturing things […]
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SpaceX is testing Starship’s engines
Last Friday, SpaceX conducted engine tests on the Super Heavy rocket, which is intended to eventually carry their Starship into space. This marked the second test of the 33 Raptor engines designed to lift Booster 9 of the Super Heavy from the ground. During the initial test on August 9th, only 29 of the engines […]
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Join Crew-7’s Journey
Two days ago, Crew-7 was launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station. The trip included four astronauts, including Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who is on his second mission to space. NASA has put together a video that follows the crew’s day from preparations and farewells to families, the launch, and their initial time in […]
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Starlink Revenue and Usage Statistics (2023)
Starlink, SpaceX’s groundbreaking project, isn’t talked much about in 2023. Apparently, it’s one of the most ambitious projects in the world of technology and space exploration. The company’s primary mission is to deliver fast-speed internet to people worldwide, especially to those in remote areas, leveraging a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceX has […]
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Indian rover has started rolling on the moon
Last Wednesday, the Indian lunar lander Vikram successfully soft-landed at the moon’s south pole, and shortly after, it began performing the tasks it’s intended to carry out on the moon. Among other things, the small rover Pragyan was aboard Vikram, and shortly after landing, it was deployed from its ‘mothership.’ In the video clip here, […]
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Starlink and Cloudflare Begin Collaboration
The Information reports that SpaceX’s space internet provider, Starlink, has initiated a partnership with Cloudflare, the CDN company perhaps best known for its service that protects websites from DDoS attacks. The idea behind the collaboration is for Cloudflare to assist Starlink in delivering internet content faster to Starlink’s customers. The exact nature of the collaboration […]
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India’s lunar landing succeeded
Yesterday, India’s lunar lander Vikram (“valor”) successfully soft-landed on the moon. This was India’s second attempt at landing on the moon after an unsuccessful attempt in 2019. With this achievement, India becomes the first nation to softly land at the moon’s south pole and the fourth nation overall, after the USA, Soviet Union, and China, […]