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SpaceX unveils Starship orbital test plan

SpaceX has submitted a plan to the FCC for the first orbital test of its new Starship prototype spacecraft. The test date is unknown at the moment, but company officials have repeatedly said they plan to test it this year.…

Farewell shot of Bennu

This photo was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 9. On that day it made its final flyby of the asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu). The purpose of the visit was to map the surface of the small body and…

Electron launch ended in an accident

On May 15, Rocket Lab conducted its 20th launch of the Electron small rocket. The main purpose of the mission was to orbit two BlackSky satellites, designed for remote sensing of the Earth. The company also wanted to re-test the…

Another Columbus find

On May 10, 1503, Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands. The navigator Christopher Columbus is known to everyone from his high school geography course as the discoverer of America. But there is another, small, but significant discovery. We are talking…

Perseverance photographed the night sky

The Perseverance team has published several test pictures taken with the camera included in the MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer) weather station. They show the night sky of the Red Planet. The images were taken on May 4 at three-minute…

TESS detected a gamma-ray burst

The TESS space telescope is designed to detect exoplanets using the transit method. But, as is often the case in astronomy, the device began to be used for additional tasks and managed to make a number of unplanned discoveries. For…