Latest news on "Space"

The National Directorate of Military Space Intelligence of the United States announced the conclusion of ten-year contracts with BlackSky, Maxar Technologies and Planet Labs to provide commercial satellite images to intelligence, military and federal civilian agencies of the United States. This is reported by SpaceNews.

The project of the second Chinese interplanetary station "Tianwen-2" has passed into the engineering design stage, and the device itself will be launched into space in 2025. It is expected that the station will be able to deliver soil to Earth from the Kamoalev Earth quasi-satellite, as well as study the active asteroid 311P/PANSTARRS, according to the website Space.com .

The Voyager 1 space probe suddenly started sending NASA nonsense

Launched in 1977, Voyager became the farthest man-made object in space, but for some time now it has been sending gibberish to Earth, writes Gizmodo. NASA believes that the data obtained does not fit in with the true position of the ship.

How long space missions change the brain

Prolonged stay in space causes changes in the structure of the brain, writes Big Think. In a recent study, scientists were able to establish a link between this phenomenon and cases of visual impairment in astronauts.

The Starliner spacecraft docked to the ISS during a test flight

Boeing has completed a long series of failures related to the development of the Starliner ship. He was able to reach the ISS in unmanned mode, despite a number of emergency situations in flight and failures during previous attempts. Now, if the landing goes well, the first people will be able to go on it to the space station at the end of 2022.

NASA is confused: the Hubble telescope shows that "something strange" is happening to the universe

NASA scientists are confused by the data sent to them by the Hubble telescope. According to these data, "something strange is happening to our universe," writes the Daily Express.

Rostec's website tells about the main space launch of the year – the launch of the Luna-25 spacecraft. This automatic station will be the first Russian lunar mission in the last half century.

As reported by the TASS news agency, on the morning of May 18, 2022, the Russian military satellite Kosmos-2555, which was launched on April 29 using the Angara-1 launch vehicle, descended from orbit and burned in the atmosphere.2". This follows from the data of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of the United States.

Where is the militarization of space going

An analysis of the available indirect and direct signs of preparations for an arms race in outer space suggests that there is less and less time and opportunities for proactive diplomatic steps on the PARAC. Let's analyze this situation using the example of US military space preparations both at the political and doctrinal level and in the military-technical sphere.

Dmitry Baranov, Director of the Progress RCC, told how the plant lives under sanctions

After the introduction of US and EU sanctions against Russian space enterprises, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, promised to focus the resources released due to the curtailment of cooperation on the creation of dual-use and military systems.

Lunar agriculture has made a big step forward: scientists from the University of Florida for the first time grew seedlings in soil delivered from the Moon. This success marks an important milestone in the work on future deep space missions, and also provides useful information about the composition and fertility of space soil. There is not much lunar soil on Earth, so the experiment was not easy.

Russian scientists decided to land on Venus in a new way

Scientists of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed using a new landing scheme for the Venus-D project. This is an original idea that will be used in Russian cosmonautics for the first time. One of the project managers and co-author of the article, head of the laboratory of spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres Lyudmila Zasova told the newspaper.Ru", why an extra revolution around the Sun is needed to land on the planet, what devices will be used and what will the Americans' exit from the mission lead to.

Russia and the United States continue negotiations on cross-flights to the ISS, plans for their resumption this fall remain in force, deputy head of NASA's ISS program Dana Weigel told reporters.

In their opinion, the United States is only at the beginning of the way to create such weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia

The United States is only at the beginning of the way to create hypersonic weapons, significantly lagging behind Russia.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States believes that anti-Russian sanctions have not affected the work of the ISS, but have created difficulties for Americans working in Russia.

Elon Musk's space company is sometimes jokingly called pyrotechnic — so often its products explode during tests. A couple of recent incidents at the test site in the city of McGregor only confirm this glory. The fans of cosmonautics did not have time to set up an online broadcast from this location, as they captured two explosions in a row with an interval of only tens of hours.

US congressmen wanted to reveal "one of the greatest secrets of our time", for this purpose, on May 17, for the first time in several decades, open hearings will be held on cases of the appearance of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). This is reported by TASS.

The Russian Ambassador to the United States noted that Washington "really does not like" the Poseidon unmanned underwater vehicle and the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile.

The project of the S7 group of companies, within which it was supposed to create a light launch vehicle, has been frozen, part of the team of designers and developers is likely to be reduced. This was reported to N + 1 by one of the project engineers. The press service of the S7 company did not answer N + 1's questions.

Scientists of the MIPT Applied Nanotechnology Laboratory have developed and tested a new digital receiver board based mainly on Russian components. It will provide communications for small spacecraft. Boeing, Airbus and Thales have similar solutions, but the domestic version differs in that it implements the functions of the whole device in a single chip.