Jeff Bezos, the founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft while discussing the mission to the Moon. Bezos told the audience the lander would be enabled to deliver payloads to the surface of the lunar up to four smaller rovers and also shoot out satellites to […]
SpaceX confirmed that it would launch dozens of Starlink satellites in one go for May 15. SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell, said the launch would carry “dozens of satellites,” adding more prototypes to the two currently in Low Earth Orbit. The Starlink project was launched in 2015 by Elon Musk, claiming that […]
SpaceX successfully launched the Dragon unmanned cargo capsule to the International Space Station (ISS). The event could be seen live through the Youtube channel of the Elon Musk company. These types of unmanned cargo capsule launches are almost routine for SpaceX, but this happens shortly after one of the Crew Dragon capsules was destroyed during […]
We are not far from visiting the Moon for the second time, as the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced that it would carry out the second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, between July 5 and July 16, 2019, and that is very likely to stand up. On the Moon sometime around September 6, 2019. India visited […]
In less than 10 years, specifically on April 13, 2029, the date estimated by NASA for an asteroid 1,115 feet wide may pass very close to Earth, but without impact. This space body, named as Apophis in honor of an Egyptian God of Death, will approach 19,000 miles from our planet, a very close distance that […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk teases the starship offering his vision of the spacecraft on both the Moon and Mars. The billionaire took to social media platform Twitter to share graphical representations of the SpaceX Starship showing the shiny SpaceX sitting on the bare ground on the Moon and Mars. Such a vision is quite similar […]
For the first time, NASA’s Mars InSight lander has successfully recorded and measured what seems to be a tremor on the red planet. Scientists say the source for this “Marsquake” could either be movement in a crack inside the planet or the shaking from a meteorite impact. On April 6, the Mars InSight lander’s seismometer […]
Since the founding of NASA in 1958 by Eisenhower, the President of the United States, researchers, and astronauts of the US space agency have increased our knowledge about the universe and the Solar System. Here in this article, we will review the 10 most important achievements made by NASA throughout its history. Although the space […]
The universe is incredibly huge and filled with horrific black holes that can tear the planets apart. However, in the moments immediately following the Big Bang, the universe was a rather dull and empty place filled only with hydrogen and helium atoms. Scientists believe that hydrogen and helium collided – forming the very first molecule […]
The autonomous leader in building small rockets is evolving its business with a service that may well revolutionize how spacecraft are manufactured, be it by start-ups or even the military. Rocket Lab has taken its next leap announcing today, it will offer an in-house satellite platform that can be launched from its Electron vehicle. As […]
NASA on Thursday shared a fresh look of the Curiosity Rover got to witness two solar eclipses of the red planet. Mars has two moons; Phobos and Deimos that are small and distinct from our satellite. Phobos, the larger of the two satellite is just 16 miles across the planet. NASA has shared some shadowy […]
Amazon has announced its most ambitious plan to launch 3,236 low Earth orbit satellites to provide broadband access to millions of people across the world. It was first spotted by GeekWire about the so-called Project Kuiper initiative. Kuiper Systems LLC recently came up with three sets of filings with the ITU and the international organization […]
