To: Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, RAF Exchange Officer From: Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, U.S. Space Force CC: Dr. Strangelove – The War Room; General Buck Turgidson – Joints Chiefs of Staff; President Merkin Muffley – President of the United States of America. Dear Captain Mandrake I regret to inform …
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Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told journalists on Thursday that New Delhi could “potentially” become the first foreign capital to place an order for the S-500. However, he said, equipping Russia’s own troops with the latest technology would have to be completed before it is considered for sale overseas. “When …
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Riding atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the Dragon spacecraft lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday evening. The separation of the rocket’s first stage appears to have been successful soon after launch, with the stage making a controlled reentry back to earth without issue, landing on …
Read More »In defence of Elon Musk, the woke-riling space billionaire launching the first all-civilian space flight
The phenomenon of the space billionaire is an extremely current spectacle, not possible at any previous time in history. It is among those rare things that can come into existence only from a meeting place of world paradigms: high-rocket technology, finance capital, the internet, and the 24-hour news cycle. However, …
Read More »Russian space company Progress completes preliminary design of first domestically made partially reusable methane-powered rocket
Speaking to TASS news agency, the company’s press service revealed that draft plans for the Amur-LNG space rocket had been sent to other space industry corporations for expert examination. So far, it has received positive feedback, Progress claims. The company also noted that the plan could possibly be improved and …
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That’s according to Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin, who wrote on Twitter on Sunday that the state-owned space agency is “helping in any way” it can. “We have been transferring almost all the oxygen produced by our enterprises to medical institutions for three months now, forcing us to postpone the testing …
Read More »India fails to send powerful Earth monitoring satellite into space, as indigenous engine malfunctions
On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that the 12-story-tall Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) had launched successfully at 5:43am IST (0:43pm GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island in eastern India. The group shared an image of the lift-off from their livestream. However, despite …
Read More »Unboxing, space-grade: WATCH Russian cosmonauts enter new ISS lab module Nauka
A brief tour of the module shared online by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky on Saturday offered space enthusiasts a sneak peek at the newly arrived mini-lab. Footage from the International Space Station (ISS) shows Novitsky and his fellow cosmonaut, Pyotr Dubrov, opening the module’s hatch and floating into the Nauka. …
Read More »‘Everyone was euphoric’: Russia’s space boss blames Nauka lab incident that sparked INTERSTELLAR references on ‘human factor’
Nauka – the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) – was launched last week and docked at the International Space Station on Thursday after 14 years of delays, giving the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and space fans around the world ample reasons to celebrate. However, celebrations soon turned into a nerve-wracking …
Read More »Accident in orbit! Cosmonauts scramble to right TILTED space station after new Russian module Nauka takes ISS for a spin
Roscosmos announced the docking of ‘Nauka’ on Thursday, the first new Russian component of the ISS in over a decade, which replaced the 20-year-old ‘Pirs.’ Around 16:45 GMT, however, the module’s thrusters began to fire, pushing the ISS about 45 degrees out of its normal rotation. As the station began …
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