The aerospace company Northrop Grumman prepares a cargo trip to the International Space Station and has decided to name the ship that will make the delivery in honor of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. This decision by Northrop Grumman during this trip to the International Space Station seeks to honor the memory of Katherine Johnson, an […]
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Based on satellite data, a team of researchers reports that the global rate of ice loss has increased by more than 65% over the past two decades. The results of this study are published in The Cryosphere. For the first time, researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK have used satellite data to […]
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The North American aerospace company SpaceX launched this Sunday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida, a record of 143 satellites in the so-called mission Transporter-1, your new multi-company load sharing program at a lower cost. The Falcon 9 first stage booster […]
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The Solar Orbiter, jointly developed by ESA and NASA, flew close to Venus for the first time, and took the opportunity to collect some data on our tumultuous neighbor. Launched last February with 10 new instruments on board, the mission of the probe is to study the solar winds, the star’s magnetic field, its eruptions […]
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The size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshade of the James Webb Telescope was recently successfully deployed at NASA facilities. This important milestone brings us closer to its launch planned for next year. The James Webb Telescope is one of the most anticipated space observatories, with a launch normally scheduled for next October. Positioned […]
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After a failure last year, SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit, will attempt to land on the moon again with not one, but two moon landers. The launch of this ambitious mission is scheduled for the first half of 2024. In February 2019, a spacecraft signed by the Israeli non-profit organization SpaceIL took off from Florida aboard […]
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The Rocket Lab company sent 30 communications satellites (and a gnome of the creator of Dota 2) into space this Thursday and managed to recover the rocket for future reuse thanks to a series of parachutes. Electron, the company’s rocket, is used to launch small probes into low Earth orbit. In its previous 15 launches, […]
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Named A68, the world’s largest iceberg, is currently heading for the subantarctic island of South Georgia, where it could hit in less than a month. If it were to anchor to the seabed, then the structure could disturb the local wildlife. In 2017, the Midas project, which brings together British researchers with the aim of […]
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New research by Dutch astronomers disputes the explosive study results published a few weeks ago, suggesting the presence of phosphine (and therefore potentially life) in the atmosphere of Venus. In mid-September, a research team led by astronomer Jane Greaves of Cardiff University announced that they had detected phosphine in Venus’s upper atmosphere. The announcement made […]
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Crew-1 space mission delayed to mid-November 2020 Through a statement, NASA stated that the launch of Crew-1 is delayed until November due to work on the engines and tests of the spacecraft. The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) delayed the launch of the SpaceX Crew-1 space mission until mid-November 2020 because it […]
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