A year ago SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell mused about how the Pentagon could use its future heavy launch system Starship. Not to land space marines on Mars, but for the speedy point-to-point delivery of cargo on Earth. The pitch apparently fell on fertile ground, since the …
Read More »NASA: climate Change happen because the Earth’s orbit, not because of fossil fuels
More than 60 years, the National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) knew that the changes of weather and climate on Earth are completely natural. In 1958, NASA said that changes in the orbit and axial tilt of the Earth are the reason that climate scientists call the “warming” (or cooling, …
Read More »The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched into orbit ten satellites. Video
SpaceX sent into orbit 10 satellites on the Falcon 9 rocketThe launch was made from US air force base Vandenberg in southern California. The launch was held on 23 December at 03:27 (Kyiv time). It is worth Recalling that the first stage of the rocket that separated, it was used …
Read More »That took with him into orbit Soviet cosmonauts. Photo
The kit was developed in 1968. While NASA nearly 20 years developing space ice-cream in the USSR worked on this. This survival kit NAZ-7 (untouchable emergency reserve). It was developed in 1968 to ship Soyuz, the reliable workhorse of space flight which is still in use today. The set consisted …
Read More »NASA is preparing to launch an innovative telescope into orbit
Experts from the US, it remains only to conduct the final test of efficiency. Telescope “James Webb” is an infrared Observatory, to replace the orbiting telescope “Hubble”. Composite mirror system includes 18 hexagonal mirrors with a diameter of 6.5 meters (one piece mirror of Hubble is 2.4 meters). To place …
Read More »Published footage of the destruction of the satellite in orbit. Video
Control over the AMC-9 was lost on 17 June, but on 1 July, the connection has been restored. The company ExoAnalytic Solutions that works to monitor spacecraft in near-earth space, found that telecommunications satellite AMC-9, owned by the Luxembourg operator SES S. A. has collapsed at least three parts. The …
Read More »NASA will send into orbit the Sun, the spacecraft
NASA will send into orbit the Sun the Solar Probe apparatus of Parker. This will be the first in history a space ship that could get into the coronary region of the Sun. “Part of the demonstration funding NASA technologies were used APL and our partners to UTAS to study …
Read More »India put into orbit its most powerful rocket
The new missile is able to bring up to 4 tons into geostationary orbit.The largest rocket the Indian production with the largest in the history of the country a satellite launched from the spaceport at Sriharikota island in the Bay of Bengal. In case of successful test the rocket used …
Read More »On the Martian orbit, found the remains of the planet
Around Mars can spin the remains of the “germ” of another planet in the Solar system. Astrophysics of Albion using a telescope in Chile has seen in the orbit of Mars, the remnants of the dead planet. This is reported on the official resource of the Armenian Observatory on Tuesday, …
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