IEverything has changed in space travel in recent years, and this can be summed up in one sentence. “There are about 6,500 satellites in space, of which about 3,000 belong to the American multi-billionaire Elon Musk,” says Rolf Densing, ESA’s European Space Agency director for mission operations. There are private individuals, new goals are set: … Read more
AFP News from the NOS•today, 00:19 A SpaceX capsule has arrived safely at the International Space Station, orbiting the Earth. The American space company’s Crew Dragon capsule brought two American astronauts, a Japanese and a “cosmonaut”, as astronauts in Russia are called, aboard the station. It is the first time in 20 years that a … Read more
– NASA / Johns Hopkins APL – News from the NOS•today, 19:32 — At 1:14 this evening, a high-speed US space probe will collide with a space rock. And that is precisely the point. NASA is studying whether such a maneuver could change the course of an asteroid that threatens to hit Earth. – Just … Read more
– EPA – News from the NOS•nowadays, 17:24 — The planned launch of the unmanned Artemis rocket was once again postponed. It is the next time in five times that the NASA space agency has canceled the lunar mission soon in advance of departure owing to technological problems. This time there was a gas leak. … Read more
12 jul 2022 om 20:58 | Update: 8 uur geleden The Russian space organization Roscosmos stops using the meter-long robot arm that was made in the Netherlands at the ISS space station. Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin will order this, Russian media report. By: our news editors The robotic arm is installed on the Russian module … Read more
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft has collected footage from the planet Mars. Among other things, images have been made for the first time of the ‘south pole’ on the red planet, reports the China Lunar Exploration Project Wednesday. The Tianwen-1 reached Mars in February 2021. A robotic vehicle was placed on the surface while the unmanned … Read more
The Voyager probes were launched in 1977. They were to last for four years, but are still boiling after 45 years. Now they are starting to run out of power, and NASA must therefore start shutting down instruments to make them last as long as possible. The power source is radioactive plutonium, and it is … Read more
The seismometer of NASA’s Mars InSight lander will remain in use for several weeks longer to detect Marsquakes. As a result, the lander will run out of power faster, reports the lander space agency. InSight was launched in May 2018 and in November of that year the spacecraft landed on the surface of Mars. Since … Read more
It will be an exciting second half of the year for space travel. Not only will SpaceX finally launch its Starship rocket, NASA will also really start its lunar program and a probe will collide with an asteroid. Starship almost ready for launch Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX will launch Starship in July. The rocket … Read more
– Gaia — © EPA-EFE – Gaia, the space mission of the European Space Agency ESA, has discovered that our galaxy contains stars that come from another galaxy. They write that in a press release. Those, and other important discoveries, allow scientists to study the origins and life of our galaxy. – jvhBron: BELGIAN Today … Read more