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Russian Space Agency Declares that the ISS Maybe in Peril due to Sanctions of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
This week, as Russia unleashed a violent assault on Ukraine, the director of Russia’s space agency went on a rant. After President Joe Biden announced on Thursday new sanctions against Russia that would, among other effects, “degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program,” Dmitry Rogozin responded with a series of tweets about the International Space Station: “Do you want […]
Space Tourism Flights Poised to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022
Space Tourism Flights Set to Continue with Virgin Galactic in 2022 2021 was a great year for aerospace as more space flights took place in 2021 than any other year in space history. Especially with the space tourism flights in 2021, it became possible for civils to access space. Virgin Galactic was one of these […]
SpaceX is Launching 4 Dozen Starlink Satellites Today on February 21, 2022
SpaceX will launch more than four dozen Starlink satellites and land the returning rocket on Monday (Feb. 21). A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 49 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday at 9:44 a.m. EST (1444 GMT). You can watch it live […]
Astroscale to Demonstrate Orbital Space Debris Removal
Astroscale said Feb. 17 it is preparing to resume an attempt to capture a satellite acting as a piece of debris in low Earth orbit, after pausing the demonstration three weeks ago to troubleshoot undisclosed problems. The Japanese startup has started moving its 175-kilogram servicer spacecraft closer to the 17-kilogram client satellite ahead of deciding […]
New Shepard Commercial Spaceflight launches in 2022 will be Increased by Blue Origin owned by Bezos
Blue Origin expects to more than double the number of people it flies on its New Shepard suborbital system this year while adding another vehicle to its fleet. In a presentation at the 24th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference Feb. 17, Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, said the company saw “very robust” […]
Europe hosted its Space Summit in Toulouse France
Europe hosted its Space Summit in Toulouse, France. Leaders in the space sector from across Europe gathered to discuss the state of the industry. The summit is part of the ESA Agenda 2025, which outlines the agency’s priorities—and a roadmap for greater EU space sovereignty—over the next few years.Taking the wide view, we heard a […]
The First Movie to be Filmed Aboard ISS by a Russian Film Crew
The International Space Station or ISS has been a focus point for many different science fiction movies. Especially the movie “Gravity” and the movie “Life” are very good examples of this. However, these were all created in studios in lifelike replicas of ISS. Now there will be an actual filming aboard the ISS where the […]
Congratulations for the 64th Anniversary of the Space Age with the Launch of Sputnik
Aerospacelectures.com would like to congratulate the 64th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, which started the space age for mankind. We believe that since the inception of the first known settlement in Gobeklitepe circa 9000 BC, humans have always looked upon the stars with the Dream of Stars. Congratulations to everyone […]
2021 An Exciting Year for Aerospace Developments Across the World
Regardless of the pandemic, 2021 has so far been the most exciting year for Aerospace in the 21st century. With the lunar sampling mission by China, the 3 Mars missions by NASA, UAE and China, upcoming missions to Venus and the Sun, and the space tourism missions by SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. It […]
SpaceX Launches Inspiration4 Mission as the First All Civilian Private Space Flight
SpaceX successfully launched a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four nonprofessional astronauts on its first private crewed mission named Inspiration4 on Sept. 15, a long-awaited milestone in the commercialization of spaceflight. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:02 p.m. Eastern from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. There were no issues reported during the […]