Russia launched 53 small satellites into orbit on Monday (Nov. 4), a mix of Russian and international spacecraft. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage lifted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East at 6:18 p.m. EST on Monday (2318 GMT; or 2:18 a.m. on Nov. 5 local time). “The […]
SpaceX will launch 20 Starlink internet satellites from California early Saturday morning (Nov. 9). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft — 13 of which have direct-to-cell capability — is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday, during a four-hour window that opens at 1:16 a.m. EST (0516 GMT; 10:16 p.m. […]
new video loaded: Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite transcript Back transcript Japan Launches World’s First Wooden Satellite The cube-shaped satellite was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket late Monday to test if timber will work as a more sustainable material in space. 3, 2, 1. … and liftoff. Recent episodes in Science Show more videos […]
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Plus d’une centaine de milliers de satellites tourneront bientôt autour de la Terre, pour offrir toujours plus de services de télécommunication. Les chercheurs dénoncent un «hold-up du ciel», car ces engins rendent leurs recherches de plus en plus compliquées. Source link
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SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Saturday evening (Oct. 26). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:47 p.m. EDT (2147 GMT). The first stage from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lands on the Just Read the […]
China has revealed the payloads it sent to space recently on the two-week-long Shijian-19 retrievable satellite mission. Shijian-19 launched on a Long March 2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Sept. 27 and landed Oct. 11 at the Dongfeng landing site, near Jiuquan in the Gobi Desert. It was the first mission for the […]