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Arianespace is Set to Start its Satellite Launches Soon
Arianespace has announced that the launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Center will resume soon. This comes after a month-long suspension of all launch campaigns that began on March 16th. Beginning May 11th, the launch campaigns for the VV16/SSMS and the VA253 will resume. The launch campaigns were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic on […]
NASA and Virgin Galactic Team Up for Hypersonic Commercial Flight
NASA and Virgin Galactic team up for a deal that aims to help the US develop “high-Mach vehicles for potential civil applications.” Virgin Galactic and NASA will work together to help get superfast air travel off the ground. NASA has signed a Space Act Agreement with Virgin Galactic and its manufacturing subsidiary, The Spaceship Company, […]
Aviation Outlook and the COVID19 Pandemic
Due to the aviation industry, the world has become a smaller place and it has become possible for any entrepreneur in India or anywhere else in the world to conduct business with any other country and sell his/her products or services. Moreover, families and friends have become closer to each other with distances becoming meaningless […]
What are Starlink Satellites of SpaceX by Elon Musk
Starlink is the name of a satellite network that the private spaceflight company SpaceX is developing to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. While SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 12,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation, the size and scale of the project have flustered astronomers and amateur skywatchers, who fear that the bright, orbiting objects will […]
Virgin Orbit Successfully Completes Test Flight Before its First Launch
The runway is now clear for Virgin Orbit’s first-ever launch. Virgin Orbit is a dedicated launch service for satellites with a mission to launch satellites into space in great numbers at low cost. On Sunday (April 12), the company completed the final test of its development program, sending its carrier plane, Cosmic Girl, aloft over the […]
NASA sets May 27 launch date for SpaceX for Launch of American Astronauts from American Soil for First Time since 2011
NASA announced April 17 that it has set a May 27 launch date for a SpaceX commercial crew test flight that will be the first mission to launch NASA astronauts to orbit from the United States in nearly a decade. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the launch date in a tweet, saying that NASA “will […]
Russia Suspends Soyuz Rocket Production due to Coronavirus Worries
The manufacturer of Russia’s workhorse Soyuz-2 rocket said it has paused production to keep factory workers safe during the coronavirus pandemic. In a transcript released by the Kremlin April 10, Dmitry Baranov, general director of the Samara Space Center, said the company has 52 Soyuz rockets already built — 40 in storage and 12 at […]
Use NASA Work at Home Opportunities to Find New Planets and Find New Data
I think this is a great opportunity for astronomy and space engineering students as well as for amateur scientists to pass time while awaiting the end of the pandemic in their homes.#education hashtag#nasa hashtag#aerospace You can be a scientist in your own home. NASA has many opportunities for citizen scientists to contribute to ongoing research. […]
Russia’s Roscosmos sees no need to postpone ISS crew’s return to Earth over coronavirus
MOSCOW, March 26. /TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos considers it inexpedient to postpone the return of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth over the coronavirus and the quarantine imposed by Kazakhstan, the Roscosmos press office told TASS on Thursday. “Roscosmos does not consider it expedient to postpone the return of […]
Musk’s SpaceX wins NASA award to supply planned lunar space station
NASA on Friday picked a new space capsule from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency’s planned lunar space station, a crucial building block to its plans to build a permanent post on the moon and mount future missions to Mars. SpaceX will get a portion of a $7 billion NASA […]