Even a one-second error on a watch could mean the difference between landing on Mars and…
Technologies
On Mars, nighttime temperatures can reach minus 105°C (minus 157 degrees Fahrenheit). Harsh environment technologies make…
InSight’s HP3 thermal probe, also known as the “mole,” could not provide the necessary friction to…
Impactors The Impactor, also known as E-1, was designed to impact (fall) into the visible part…
Observation of space and further study of celestial bodies is one of the main functions of…
CORONA is a Russian reusable single-stage launch vehicle (LV) with vertical take-off/landing. Due to technology limitations,…
The Russian Mars 96 failed due to a problem with the second launch of the fourth…
Opportunity (MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B) is the second rover of NASA’s Mars Exploration…
The Perseverance rover depends on a supply of electrical power to operate, which is necessary for…
SpaceX is ready for a second attempt to send the Starship rocket system into its first…
One of the brightest objects in the night sky is not a star or planet but…
OSIRIS-REx devices There are five instruments on board the spacecraft that studied the asteroid in detail:…
July 12, 2023. The world’s first rocket launch with an oxygen-methane engine, Zhuque-2 (ZQ-2), was successful.…
This telescope gathers light 8 million times more than Galileo’s telescope and 100 million times more…
According to official data from SpaceX, over two years, more than 26 thousand maneuvers of Starlink…
Past rocket launches have used government agencies, but the emergence of private space companies has significantly…
The Cold Atom Laboratory was sent to the International Space Station in 2018, where it used…
Main mirror The main and most innovative component of the James Webb telescope is its main…
Can a fire start in space? In space, where there is no atmosphere and oxygen, as…
The idea of a Dyson sphere has captured my imagination. An engineering megastructure that hugs an…
A Chinese spaceplane launched from Jiuquan on August 4, 2022, beginning a mission around which there…