SPACE: Jeff Bezos and his company accuse NASA of acting “biased” and favouring SpaceX when awarding the contract for the lunar mission project with the budget of nearly $ 3 billion Blue Origin recently officially protested to the US public financial control body (GAO) after the signing of an agreement between NASA and SpaceX. The space agency has indeed entrusted […]
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RED PLANET: Are you interested in a sunrise on Mars? The probe “Hope” the United Arab Emirates sent its first image in March, days after its entry into orbit around the red planet, said Sunday the National Space Agency. The image was taken on Wednesday, a day after the Emirates successfully placed their probe, called “Amal” in Arabic (Hope in English), around […]
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SPACE: Water evaporates as hydrogen from Martian atmosphere, two British scientists say Things are happening over our heads. And more precisely, around Mars, the red planet. In addition to placing the respective probes of the Emirates and China into orbit around Mars, two British scientists said Wednesday they had detected water vapour escaping from the Martian atmosphere. A new clue that could support the thesis […]
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SPACE: Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX will take charge of two modules associated with the small lunar base NASA has made its choice and it will be SpaceX. The company’s Elon Musk is participating again in the project for the future lunar space station by installing the lunar outpost LOP-G (orbit Portal circumlunar Gateway), reports Numerama. For that, it will be necessary to […]
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SPACE: The project is based in particular on the progress of the development of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft, which could make its first unmanned orbital flight next year. Elon Musk said he was “extremely confident” on Monday as to the possibility of sending men to Mars by 2026 thanks to a spacecraft designed by SpaceX. The CEO of the company specializing in […]
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SPACE: The vega rocket deviated from its path eight minutes after takeoff The young European rocket Vega suffered the second failure in its history on Tuesday by losing the two satellites it carried just after takeoff, due to a problem during the manufacture of the launcher, assembled in Italy. Eight minutes after a successful takeoff from the Kourou space centre in […]
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The changing weather ultimately did not cause a second report: the SpaceX rocket propelled astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in ten minutes 200 km above the oceans. SpaceX became Saturday 30th May 2020 in Florida the first private company to launch astronauts into space, a historic success which offers the United States a new means […]
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This first manned flight from SpaceX, was to send the first Americans in 10 years from American Soil to the International Space Station. After a day of suspense, the first manned flight of the American company SpaceX was postponed from Wednesday to Saturday 30th May 2020 because of bad weather, while two NASA astronauts were already installed […]
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Elon Musk’s space company is preparing to send two astronauts to the International Space Station. It is the first manned flight launched from the United States in nine years. After freight, men: the American space company SpaceX will launch two NASA astronauts Wednesday 27th May 2020 to the International Space Station, a first which is coupled with another historic […]
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From 2021, lucky people, for the sum of several tens of millions of euros, will be able to make a space flight. It hasn’t happened since 2009. The American space company SpaceX announced Thursday 5th March 2020 a partnership intended to send next year three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS). Which has not been done for over ten […]
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