A 2.5-meter jagged ring fell on Kenya from space
A huge piece of space debris fell on the territory of a Kenyan village a few days ago. The 500kg metal ring is likely part of some kind of launch…
The first space launch took place in 2025 – SpaceX Falcon 9 delivered a communications satellite with AI
SpaceX, as the undisputed leader in earthly astronautics, was the first to open a series of launches in the new year 2025. A few hours ago (at 04:27 Moscow time),…
NASA: Parker probe is fine after record approach to the Sun and is already transmitting data to Earth
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which set a record for approaching the Sun on December 24, flew next to it at a distance of only 6.1 million km from the surface…
India has taken a step towards manned spaceflight – docking demonstrators have been launched into orbit
India is getting closer to the day of the first national manned space flight. This should happen in 2026, but for now equipment is being tested at intermediate stages. In…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn heavy rocket burned through its propulsion engines and was cleared for its first launch
Late last night, Blue Origin’s new heavy rocket, New Glenn, conducted static fire tests of all seven propulsion engines. The flame raged for 24 seconds, 13 of which reached full…
Chinese Kinetica-1 launch vehicle ended its last flight with self-destruction
Chinese aerospace company CAS Space, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), conducted an unsuccessful flight test of the Kinetica-1 solid rocket launch vehicle. The TASS news agency…
NASA showed a “Christmas tree” on a galactic scale
The American space agency NASA has published a photograph of the star cluster NGC 2264, also known as the Christmas tree – in its appearance, the space object really resembles…
Mars orbiters sent photos of a “winter wonderland” on the Red Planet
The Space resource published images taken from Mars orbit by the automatic interplanetary stations Mars Express of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, depicting Martian slopes…
The first private space station will appear two years earlier, but it will not be possible to fly to it
Recently, NASA revised plans to create a private space station, the contract for the production of which was signed with Axiom Space. The company planned to begin assembling a new…
Startup Firefly with Ukrainian roots received a NASA contract to collect samples from the far side of the Moon
Recently, the young company Firefly Aerospace from Texas, created at one time by Ukrainian businessman Maxim Polyakov and later sold by him at the request of the authorities for $1,…