Category: Space

At the end of September, the Earth will acquire a second natural satellite. It will be a small asteroid 2024 PT5 with a diameter of about 11 meters, which will…

Traditionally, Elon Musk used last Sunday to notify the public about his plans, this time his revelations concerned the prospects for the development of the private aerospace company SpaceX. By…

Researchers from Monash University in Australia have hypothesized that about 466 million years ago, a ring formed around the Earth from the debris of an asteroid attracted by the planet,…

The aerospace company SpaceX and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States completed the Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first ever spacewalk of space tourists.…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams took part in the agency’s press conference this week. They became full members of the ISS crew after…

Polaris Dawn mission astronaut Sarah Gillis staged a space concert, performing the Star Wars theme on her violin. Thanks to Starlink satellite communications, orchestras from around the world were able…

Chinese private space startup Landspace has successfully completed a 10-kilometer vertical take-off and vertical landing on its Zhuque-3 (ZQ-3) rocket test bed, including an in-flight engine restart at near-supersonic speeds.…

The Japanese company iSpace is preparing for its second mission to the lunar surface. As part of it, the Resilience landing module and a miniature rover, called Tenacious, will go…

Today at 11:52 Moscow time, the AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 1-5 mission was launched using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Falcon 9’s first stage returned safely to Earth in about 7.5…

During the Polaris Dawn commercial mission on the SpaceX Crew Dragon, crew members represented by Commander Jared Isaacman and mission specialist Sarah Gillis successfully performed a spacewalk. Image source: x.com/SpaceX…