Launched on June 25 from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon-9 rocket, Axiom-4 docked with the ISS on June 26. During their 18-day stay, the crew conducted over 60 experiments covering human health, space farming, mental wellness, and advanced space suit materials.(X/@Axiom_Space) Source link
This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace’s Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (Picture credit: AP) CAPE CANAVERAL: A Nasa spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. Nasa released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace‘s…
In a tit-for-tat move, Elon Musk said Thursday that SpaceX will begin retiring its flagship Dragon spacecraft following President Donald Trump’s threat to cancel government contracts and subsidies tied to Musk’s companies. “The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump…
This photo shows the planet Venus, seen from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Akatsuki probe (Image: AP) A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking. The Russians…
After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the dense layers of the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the Russian state corporation that runs the space program. Designed to land on the surface of Venus, Kosmos-482 may have remained…
A robotic Soviet spacecraft has been adrift in space for 53 years. It will return to Earth later this week. Kosmos-482 launched in March 1972. If all had gone well, it would have landed on the sweltering surface of Venus and become the ninth of the uncrewed Soviet Venera missions to the planet. Instead, a…
Launched more than 50 years ago, the Soviet-era Kosmos 482 probe is due to reenter Earth this month in an uncontrolled fashion. Part of a 1972 mission to Venus, the spacecraft was unable to escape Earth’s gravity when its rocket failed. Trapped ever since in low Earth orbit, the spacecraft has been slowly falling. Now,…
Kosmos 482 may look a bit like this (Photo credit: Nasa) A Soviet spacecraft launched in the 1970s for a mission to Venus is now expected to make an uncontrolled return to Earth, according to space debris-tracking experts.Dutch scientist and satellite tracker Marco Langbroek from Delft University of Technology says the re-entry of the failed…
This is an AI-generate image, used for representational purposes only. A half-ton Soviet-era spacecraft originally meant to land on Venus is expected to make an uncontrolled return to Earth around May 10, according to space debris experts monitoring its orbit. While the exact reentry location remains unknown, predictions suggest it could impact anywhere between 52…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin (Picture credit: AP) CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close approach. It was considered…