Space missions are canceled for many reasons, from engineering problems to budget issues, but the ExoMars mission, the joint plan by Europe and Russia to send a Mars rover, ran into a complex political issue when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. The European Space Agency (ESA) was working with Russia’s space agency Roscomos on the … Read more
After 15 years in space, NASA’s AIM mission is ending. A battery failure makes further communication with the Explorer 90 spacecraft impossible. This had already been announced in 2019 – since then the failure had basically been expected. Let … It was only a matter of time before NASA’s AIM project spacecraft is unable to … Read more
September 27 at At 01:14 Polish time, telescopes around the world headed towards the Dimorphos asteroid to record a historic test of our ability to defend the Earth against a potentially planet-threatening asteroid. This was the first experiment conducted by mankind, which aimed to change the trajectory of an object in space. The DART (Double … Read more
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the solar flare on January 9, 2023.picture: NASA/SDO Earth’s host star can be quite temperamental, forcing astronomers to launch satellites and probe missions to observe the sun’s massive flares up close. But instruments pointed at the sun tend to have blurry vision, a result of a mysterious … Read more
When the Dart mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos last September in what was the first-ever test of planetary defense, the Hubble Space Telescope was on the prowl. The opportunity to record remarkable images that give astronomers a unique perspective on the event. On September 26, a spacecraft weighing just over 500 kilos deliberately struck … Read more
Article entry 2023-03-03 02:30:24 Article Edit 2023-03-03 02:30:23 A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SpaceX’s manned spacecraft ‘Crew Dragon’ is drawing an orange trajectory as it soars into the sky from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA on the 2nd (local time). Crew Dragon, which carried four astronauts, including two Americans, Sultan Al-Neyadi of … Read more
He universe It is still a great unknown for human beings, who take advantage of all their resources to explore it to the fullest. And a clear example of what is mentioned is Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from Earth. This artifact, which has a much lower technology than today’s ships, was launched on September … Read more
The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft, which will bring three cosmonauts back to Earth, docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) reported on Sunday. According to the information released by the entity, the Soyuz MS-23 carried out the operations in automatic mode, operated from Earth by specialists from the Mission Control Center … Read more
The MS-23 spacecraft docked at the orbital research laboratory, according to a video released by ISS partner NASA, completing the Soyuz’s two-day mission after its launch from Kazakhstan. In September, it will have to take three astronauts back to Earth: the American Frank Rubio and the Russians Dmitri Petelin and Sergei Prokopiev. The three arrived … Read more
An uncrewed Russian Soyuz capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday to return to Earth three astronauts whose return vehicle was damaged by a small meteorite impact. The MS-23 spacecraft docked at the orbital research laboratory, according to a video released by ISS partner NASA, completing the Soyuz’s two-day mission after its … Read more