SpaceX Sets New Rocket Reuse Record – Just 9 Days Between Launches
Today at 09:49 Moscow time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the US Space Force’s Vandenberg launch site in California. The mission was carried out in the interests…
NASA astronauts stranded in space won’t get overtime pay — only $5 per day
NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams are reportedly not entitled to overtime pay for their ISS deployment, which has increased from 10 days to nine months. Like other government…
Boeing Starliner Failure Didn’t Force NASA to Abandon This Ship — It Will Fly to the ISS Again
The failure of Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight to the ISS in June 2024 has not deprived NASA of hopes of having a backup for crewed missions. Relying solely on…
Private space station Starlab reaches ‘full-scale development’, launch planned for 2028
The Starlab space station is a joint project between the American Voyager and the European Airbus. In addition to private funding, the project received $217.5 million from NASA under the…
The Odyssey lander that crashed on the Moon last year benefited radio astronomy before it died
The prestigious astronomical journal The Astrophysical Journal recently published an article that highlighted a literal scientific feat accomplished by the dying Nova-C Odyssey lander on the Moon from Intuitive Machines.…
Absolute success: scientific probe Blue Ghost fell asleep forever on the Moon after productive two weeks of work
The American company Firefly Aerospace reported that on March 17 at 02:15 Moscow time, contact was lost with the Blue Ghost lunar landing module. Night had fallen on the Moon…
NASA astronauts trapped in space for nine months finally leave the ISS and head back to Earth
The Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American aerospace company SpaceX with a crew of four people on board successfully undocked from the International Space Station and headed for Earth. A…
The crash site of the Athena lunar lander was photographed from the orbit of the Moon
Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander flipped on its side during its March 6 landing in a small crater near the moon’s south pole. The orientation prevented the lander’s solar…
The Athena spacecraft fell on its side, trapped a small lunar rover inside itself and disrupted the first 4G call from the Moon
Lunar Outpost reported that the small MAPP rover sent aboard the Athena module survived the flight and descent to the lunar surface, but was unable to escape from the lander,…
Second consecutive Starship explosion in the sky may indicate fundamental problems with the ship
The eighth test launch of SpaceX’s Starship ended with an explosion and a rain of fire in the sky — essentially the same as the previous seventh test flight. For…