Latest news on "Space"

The helicopter will move 150 meters in a south-easterly direction and take several pictures of a section of the planet's surface

The Mars-based Ingenuity helicopter will make its sixth flight over the planet's surface next week and move to a new location. This is reported on the website of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The number of the company's satellites in near-Earth space will reach 218, the Arianespace corporation reported.]

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket with 36 British OneWeb communications satellites from the Vostochny cosmodrome is scheduled for May 27. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the French corporation Arianespace.

The spacecraft, together with two other satellites in orbit, will form a network for high-precision monitoring of the marine environment

The Chinese launch vehicle "Changzheng-4-Bi" (Long March-4B, CZ-4B) successfully put the Haiyang-2D satellite into the specified orbit on Wednesday. This was reported by China Central Television.

The speed of the Starlink satellite Internet has reached a record high. This is reported by the publication Wccftech. In the first test, the data download speed reached 542 megabits per second, the download speed stopped at 38.8 megabits per second with a delay of nine milliseconds.

The first Chinese rover "Zhuzhong" sent images from the surface of Mars. The photos confirmed that the rover's solar panels and antenna opened successfully, and will help experts build a plan for the rover's movements, CNSA reports.

The Teledroid robot for open space will be able to work in orbit for 3-4 years, although according to the technical specification it should be operated for six months. This was announced on Tuesday, May 18, by the company-developer of the robotic complex NPO "Android Technology".

Chinese experts have tested the main module of a promising space station. This brings the long-awaited moment of its commissioning closer.

Anywhere in the world in less than two hours? In Japan, this is considered quite real in twenty years. On May 17, the Mainichi News Agency reported that the Japanese government and private companies are preparing to develop intercontinental passenger spacecraft.

The SBIRS GEO 5 satellite was launched into orbit by an Atlas V launch vehicle

The US Space Force sent the SBIRS GEO 5 early detection system satellite into orbit on Tuesday using an Atlas V launch vehicle. The launch was broadcast on the website of the creators of the launch vehicle - the United Launch Alliance company.

The Ukrainian medium rocket "Cyclone-4M" in 2023 will fly from the Canso space center in the province of Nova Scotia (Canada), reports CBC.

Interplanetary missions will be included in the national planetary exploration program

China plans to launch new missions to Mars and Jupiter to explore these planets and return rock samples to Earth. This was stated by the chief designer of the national Mars mission "Tianwen-1" Zhang Rongqiao.

The spacecraft should be launched in 2029

Roscosmos has signed a contract with the Lavochkin NPO for the development of a technical proposal for the new generation Venera-D space complex for basic space research. This is stated in the documents on the public procurement website.

[b]According to the China Daily newspaper, the factory in Wuhan is capable of producing up to 240 spacecraft per year.]

China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) has launched the first production line in China using smart technologies for the construction of small orbiting satellites. This was reported on Friday by the China Daily newspaper.

Earlier, a TASS source reported that the transition from automatic to manual docking of the Progress MS-16 was required due to a damaged antenna installed on the cargo ship

The commission, which is investigating the reason for the transition of the docking of the Progress MS-16 cargo ship with the ISS from automatic to manual mode in February 2021, will continue to work. This was told to journalists on Friday by the General director of the Rocket and Space Center (RCC) "Progress" Dmitry Baranov.

Google has agreed with SpaceX to use the Starlink satellite Internet. This is reported by The Verge. Elon Musk's company will provide access to satellite Internet for corporate customers of the Google Cloud service.

The weight of the fairing was reduced by almost two tons, Rostec reported

The weight of the head fairing of the upgraded Proton-M launch vehicle decreased by almost two tons due to the use of innovative developments of the Romashin ONPP Technologiya (part of the Rostec State Corporation). This was told to TASS in the press service of Rostec.

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on Twitter congratulated China on the first successful soft landing on Mars in the history of this country.

China has landed the Tianwen-1 spacecraft on the Red Planet. This is the first time a Chinese spacecraft has landed on another planet.

Satellites lost

The launch of the Rocket Lab's Electron rocket from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand on Saturday ended in failure. Experts were unable to carry out the planned launch of two satellites into orbit.

The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Sunday, Moscow time, successfully launched another batch of 52 mini-satellites into low-Earth orbit, designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer company SpaceX said.