Category: Space

Two weeks ago, Europe demonstrated the ability to launch its own light rockets into space, freeing itself from dependence on foreign operators SpaceX and Roscosmos. Next we need to build…

Aerospace startup Vast Space, founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, has signed an agreement with SpaceX. As part of the contract, Elon Musk’s company undertakes to carry out two…

Japanese startup Space One has made its second attempt to launch Japan’s first private rocket, Kairos. The first attempt in March of this year ended with the rocket self-destructing 5…

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on December 17 issued SpaceX permission for the seventh test launch of the giant Starship rocket. Static testing of its 33 Raptor engines took…

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have had their stay on the station extended. Perhaps this incident will go down in history, because two astronauts flew for a week…

An international team of scientists examined images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and confirmed the conclusions drawn earlier from observations using the Hubble Telescope: protoplanetary disks can…

By 2030, the European Union plans to launch a constellation of 290 communications satellites into low and medium Earth orbits. This grouping, called IRIS², aims to provide secure communications for…

On the fortieth anniversary of the launch of the Vega interplanetary probes, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in December 1984, Roscosmos published several declassified documents related to these missions.…

Japanese alcoholic beverage manufacturer Asahi Sake Brewery intends to brew sake on board the International Space Station. The company announced this on its official website, RBC reports. Image source: NASA…

In preparation for the seventh test flight of the Starship, SpaceX conducted ground tests of the first stage of Super Heavy yesterday, December 9 – all 33 Raptor engines were…