© EPA-EFE The launch of a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), originally scheduled for Sunday morning Belgian time, has been postponed by one day. Due to weather conditions, the launch will now be postponed to Monday morning at 4:53 am Belgian time. The American space agency NASA announced this on X. The … Read more
AFP CEO Steve Altemus of Intuitive Machines demonstrates how the lander fell over last week NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 00:26 The American lunar lander Odysseus, which fell over when landing on the moon’s surface last week, will stop working sooner than expected. The company behind the first ever commercial moon mission, Intuitive Machines, says it expects to … Read more
AFPRussian President Putin visited the country’s largest tank factory yesterday NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 02:44 Russia is developing a ‘troubling’ anti-satellite weapon, the White House says. Security adviser John Kirby says the weapon is not yet operational. American analysts conduct research and share the information they have with allies. If such an anti-satellite weapon were deployed, communications … Read more
EPAA drawing of SLIM’s landing on the moon’s surface last Friday NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 17:03 The Japanese space agency JAXA is hopeful that the lunar lander SLIM can be saved from an early end. After landing on Friday, it turned out that SLIM was unable to generate its own energy because the solar panels were not … Read more
NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 16:31 The first Indian spacecraft to observe the Sun, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination after 126 days. The craft carries seven scientific instruments that will study the outer layer of the sun and a thin layer of plasma beneath it. Adiitya-L1 covered approximately 1.5 million kilometers in just over four months. The craft … Read more
The mini-satellite that NASA and the JAXA – the Japanese space agency – can launch in 2024 in a joint mission. In addition to the huge and ever-increasing amount of satellites orbiting the Earth, there is also an amazing amount of thousands of tons of debris in orbit, all of which endanger the operating satellites … Read more
A new study shows that astronauts have an increased risk of erection problems after returning from space. That is by no means the only problem they face. On Earth, the magnetic field and atmosphere protect us from harmful cosmic radiation. There is no such protection on the moon or Mars, nor in the international space … Read more
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Astronaut NASA Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara mark space travel (spacewalk) their first this month with a kit bag floating through space. According to the space agency, Moghbeli and O’Hara completed their maintenance work outside the International Space Station (ISS) in six hours and 42 minutes. Moment space travel on November 1, … Read more
Reuters The launch could be followed via a live stream from space organization Roskosmos NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 02:15 Russia has successfully launched the lunar lander Luna-25 to the south pole of the moon. At 1:11 a.m. Dutch time, the missile was launched without incident from Vostotsjny, close to the Chinese border in Russia’s far east. It … Read more
Virgin Galactic’s first commercial flight reached space on Thursday with three Italian scientists on board. Billionaire Richard Branson’s company is joining the race for space tourism. It was a suborbital flight. The Unity’s occupants will not enter orbit, but they will be weightless for several minutes. The spacecraft was launched from an aircraft at an … Read more