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System “Beidou 3” planning the conclusion of the 30 satellites.China Sunday, November 5, held a successful launch of the carrier rocket “Changzheng 3B” with two satellites of Beidou navigation-3 from the Xichang launch site in Sichuan province. The launch occurred at 19.45 local time (13.45 CET), reported Xinhua news Agency. …

A new system called Georg allocated 400 million euros. Germany plans to launch up to three spy satellites, the data of which will be to the German Federal intelligence service (BND). On 4 November 2017, according to DW. Noted that the budget Committee of the German Bundestag gave the green …

A collision of moons must happen in a million years. American astronomers have revealed that Cressida and Desdemona, two satellites of Uranus, will face each other. The Preprint studies available on the website arXiv.org and accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. A collision of moons must happen in a …

Some satellites did not deploy solar panels, others were on an unplanned orbit. Of the 73 satellites launched July 14 for Russian rocket Soyuz-2.1 a, four did not respond to the commands of the operators. Thus, the number of devices with which it has a different kind of problem has …

Scientists have found two satellites of the asteroid FlorenceScientists have found that asteroid Florence has two satellites located on the orbit of the cosmic body. It was also found that the diameter of these satellites ranges from 100 to 300 meters. Many inhabitants of our planet expected the approach of …

The reasons for this situation are not yet clear. Not communicate four Russian satellites: two cubita from Dauria Aerospace, a student’s “spark-MAI-85” (Moscow aviation Institute) and assembled at the Moscow state University on crowdfunding means “lighthouse”. Unplanned orbits were a couple of American satellites: Lemur-2 (Spire Global) and Flock 2k …

Scientists call the satellites of Mars was created by aliens.A group of scientists continuing study of the secrets that are associated with the origin of the Martian satellites Deimos and Phobos. According to experts, they were able to come close to finding their true purpose. There are now several versions …

Located in the picture Atlas, Daphnis and pan. Station, Cassini transmitted to Earth the small satellites of Saturn: Atlas, Daphnis and pan. The picture was published on the website NASA. Image Atlas and pan have been made using infrared, green and ultraviolet filters, the combination of which allowed him to …

Scientists said that some of the satellites of Jupiter may receive the life. They believe that the Sun continues to evolve, despite the fact, gradually cooling down. It is known that the luminosity of the star increases. This means that the habitable zone the Solar system is changing. Currently on …

The satellites found by accident when looking for planet X.Jupiter’s moons S/2016 J 1 and S/J 1 2017 first discovered in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Now they are officially recognized, according to the publication Popular Mechanics. In diameter they do not exceed two kilometres, like most of the other moons …