This summer, the European Space Agency (ESA) is planning to launch its new space telescope, Euclid, into space. ESA hopes that through Euclid’s observations, they will be able to learn more about the relationship between dark energy, dark matter, and gravity, and how these forces affect the expansion of the universe. ESA writes: While dark […]
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Mobile call via satellite with regular mobile phone conducted
The American company AST SpaceMobile has carried out the first mobile call with traditional mobile phones via its satellite BlueWalker 3 (BW3), according to a press release from the company. During the call, AST Mobile’s CEO Abel Avellan used a Samsung Galaxy S22 phone when he called a team at the Japanese company Rakuten in […]
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Today, Hakuto-R lands on the moon
Today is the day for the Japanese space company, Ispace, to carry out what could be the first successful moon landing by a private company. Ispace Hakuto-R is planned to land at the Atlas crater on the moon today. M1 program: Ispace and their moon exploration The unmanned Hakuto-R left Earth in December last year […]
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Hope checks out Mars moon Deimos
It has been just over two years since the United Arab Emirates’ Mars probe, Hope (Amal), arrived on the red planet and it has now sent back some new images from there. The latest images show detailed images of Deimos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons. The irregularly shaped Deimos is about 15x12x12 km in […]
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SpaceX’s launch pad took quite a beating during the Starship test
Last week, it was finally time for SpaceX to test its massive rocket, Starship, which ended up reaching around 40 km above Earth before exploding. The Starship test provided SpaceX with a vast amount of data on what needs to be done to improve the spacecraft and its accompanying Super Heavy launch rocket. It also […]
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Airbus unveils Loop space station with simulated gravity
Airbus has presented some sketches of what a future space station might look like. Airbus calls its concept “Loop” and one section of the space station is equipped with a centrifuge that would simulate gravity similar to Earth’s gravity, which would allow astronauts to spend their time on the space station in a state of […]
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Hyundai to build a lunar vehicle
Hyundai Motor Group, together with six South Korean research institutes, will develop a vehicle intended for moon exploration. It’s a 70 kg solar-powered rover that Hyundai will build using technology from Hyundai and Hyundai-owned KIA. This includes equipping the vehicle with cameras, lidar, motors, solar panels, and batteries that Hyundai and KIA have developed for […]
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Sateliot has launched its first 5G satellite
The Spanish satellite company Sateliot recently launched the first 5G satellite in what will become a global 5G network built with satellites in orbit around the Earth. Sateliot calls its first satellite “Groundbreaker” and it is said to be the first satellite in space that can communicate via the 5G standard. However, Groundbreaker and the […]
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Starship exploded before reaching space
SpaceX tested for the first time to send its Starship spacecraft into space with the help of the Super Heavy rocket. Even before the test, SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned that things might not go exactly as planned, which turned out to be the case. Starship and Super Heavy lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase in […]
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Check out when Starship goes to space
Today, SpaceX will make another attempt to send its giant Starship rocket into orbit around the Earth. SpaceX had originally planned to carry out Starship’s space test on Monday but canceled it because there was a little trouble with one of the spacecraft’s valves. If everything goes as planned today, the 70-meter-tall Super Heavy star […]
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SpaceX may be able to launch Europe’s Galileo satellites
It looks like the expansion of the EU’s positioning system Galileo could suffer delays if the EU cannot find a way to launch positioning satellites into space soon. The previous plan was to launch the 700 kg Galileo satellites with ArianeSpace’s Ariane 6 rocket. Ariane 6 began development in 2014 as a competitor to SpaceX’s […]
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Watch when SpaceX launches its new rocket
Today, it’s finally time for SpaceX to, for the first time, send its giant rocket, the SpaceX, into orbit around the Earth. The so-called launch window for the Starship opens during 7am local time, and SpaceX will broadcast the launch live. The idea is that the Starship, with the help of the accompanying Super Heavy […]
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Now Juice is on its way to Jupiter
Earlier today, ESA launched its Juice spacecraft from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The plan was for Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) to leave Earth yesterday, but the launch had to be canceled due to bad weather. Today, however, things went better, and Juice took off from Europe’s Spaceport on board an Ariane 5 rocket. […]
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Launch of Juice mission cancelled
The European Space Agency (ESA) just cancelled the launch of the Jupiter mission Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), which was scheduled for today. Arianespace, the company that built the rocket that would launch Juice, wrote on Twitter that weather conditions with a risk of lightning strikes led to the cancellation of the Ariane 5 rocket […]
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Check out when Juice takes off towards Jupiter
Later today, it’s time for the ESA’s Jupiter mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), to leave Earth and you can watch it live. At 14:15, the Juice spacecraft is scheduled to be launched from the Europe Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana with the help of an Ariane 5 rocket. The journey to Jupiter […]
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China plans to collide spacecraft with asteroid
Last week, the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) held its eighth planetary defense conference, during which China’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory revealed more about its plans to slow down an asteroid using a spacecraft. China has now decided to send two spacecraft to the approximately 30-meter asteroid 2019 VL5 to try to slow it down. […]
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Hubble discovers runaway black hole in space
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a supermassive black hole that is believed to have broken away from its galaxy and is now moving through the universe, creating new stars in its wake. NASA researchers believe that the black hole is the result of two galaxies merging about 50 million years ago, and then colliding […]
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Starship is ready to go to space
SpaceX founder Elon Musk stated over the weekend that the company’s new spacecraft, Starship, and its super-heavy rocket, Super Heavy, are now ready for their first unmanned space mission. However, before that can happen, SpaceX needs permission from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US aviation authority, to launch the 120-meter-high vehicle from the ground. […]
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James Webb telescope has checked out Uranus
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a look at another planet in our own solar system and this time sent back images of Uranus, the gas and ice giant that has a mass equivalent to about 14.5 of our own Earth. In JWST’s image of Uranus, the telescope captured 11 of Uranus’ 13 […]
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Chinese CAS Space tests landing a rocket on a barge
The semi-state-owned Chinese space company, CAS Space, has tested a rocket prototype that can land on a barge, much like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets have been able to do since 2015. CAS Space has released a video clip of what it looked like when the prototype was tested, which you can check out below. According […]
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Dawn Aerospace has tested a space plane with a rocket engine
The New Zealand-based space company, Dawn Aerospace, has for the first time tested its spaceplane, the Aurora Mk-II, with a rocket engine, the company announced yesterday. Over three days at the end of March, the Aurora Mk-II was tested with the rocket engine developed by Dawn for its aircraft. The 4.5-meter-long space plane reached a […]
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Starlink’s new satellites seem to be having some problems
In late February, SpaceX, the space internet operator of Starlink, sent up a first batch of satellites of a new type they had developed. The new satellites are called “V2 Mini” and are slightly smaller than the satellites that make up the rest of their satellite network. Now it seems that some of the new […]
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Private Chinese space company achieves successful launch
On Sunday, the Chinese private space company, whose official name is Beijing Tianbing Technology (Space Pioneer), launched its rocket Tianlong-2 into space. Tianlong-2 (“Sky Dragon 2”) is said to have successfully placed its payload consisting of a satellite into orbit around Earth. This means that Space Pioneer becomes the first private space company ever to […]
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India has tested its spaceplane again
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has conducted another test with its small spaceplane RLV-TD, which is a prototype of a larger spaceplane that ISRO hopes to develop for reuse in trips between Earth and space in the future. During the test, which took place on Sunday, the prototype was lifted to a height of […]
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Here are the astronauts who will travel to the moon with Artemis 2
Yesterday, NASA revealed the four astronauts who will have the opportunity to participate in their upcoming moon mission, Artemis 2. The four individuals who have been selected are Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Christina Koch from NASA, and Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Vanessa Wyche, the director of NASA’s Johnson […]
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Today NASA reveals who will go to the moon with Artemis 2
Soon, NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will reveal which astronauts will be part of the Artemis 2 mission to the moon. Artemis 2 is scheduled to leave Earth in November 2024 at the earliest and will orbit the moon before returning to Earth. NASA currently has a pool of around 40 astronauts who […]
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Astrolab to send rover to the moon with SpaceX Starship
Monaco-based company Venturi Astrolab has announced that it has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover, FLEX, to the moon with SpaceX’s giant rocket, Starship. The mission could take place as early as mid-2026, Astrolab said in a press release. According to Astrolab, this is SpaceX’s first contract involving the transportation of materials […]
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NASA postpones launch date for manned Starliner
NASA and Boeing announced yesterday that they will postpone the first manned space flight with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to at least July 21 this summer. However, NASA and Boeing warn that tests of the spacecraft’s parachutes may cause the two astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, to delay their trip to the ISS with […]
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Enormous black hole discovered
A group of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass equivalent to 30 billion of our own suns. It is one of the largest black holes ever observed and Dr James Nightingale from the Physics Department at Durham University says about the discovery: This particular black hole, which is roughly 30 billion […]
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Lockheed Martin to build network on the moon
The American aerospace and defense company, Lockheed Martin, has launched its subsidiary, Crescent Space, which will focus on building a network for communication between Earth and the moon. The satellite-based network is called Parsec and is intended to consist of several satellites in orbit around the moon. Using Parsec, spacecraft and astronauts will be able […]