From Starship to Ariane 6 and from Juice to Psyche, without forgetting Euclid and the first commercial missions to the Moon, the year 2023 promises to be exciting. It was also during this year that the European Space Agency decided to establish its own manned flight program. Discover our selection of the most important astronautical … Read more
(Ecofin Agency) – SpaceX acquired the operating licenses from the Nigerian Communications Commission for its subsidiary Starlink in May 2022. The company had originally planned to start providing operations in the country in August. Starlink, the satellite internet network of billionaire Elon Musk’s American company SpaceX (pictured), will finally start commercial operations in Nigeria before … Read more
The company SpaceX had been selected to launch the mission SWOT designed in collaboration with the French CNES (National Center for Space Studies) and the American NASA. SWOT (Surface Water Ocean Topography) is a 2 ton, 16 meter wide satellite that will observe the Earth’s surface from 890 kilometers above sea level. Its role will … Read more
After a launch with the rocket SpaceX’s Falcon 9, OneWeb confirms the successful deployment of 40 new small telecommunications satellites for its low-orbit high-speed Internet access constellation. This is the very first time that OneWeb has called on SpaceX to complete its constellation, knowing that SpaceX is in competition with OneWeb through its own starlink … Read more
Thursday 8 December at SpaceX sent a large group of corporate satellites into orbit OneWeb. A total of 40 satellites have been launched to complete the latter’s mega-constellation, which is SpaceX’s direct competitor in the high-speed internet sector. 22:27 GMT, a rocket SpaceX’s Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In … Read more
This joint flight between the US and Russia was particularly symbolic amid the war in Ukraine. “We can’t wait to get to work,” said US astronaut Nicole Mann shortly after docking the spacecraft with the space station (ISS). It was SpaceX’s fifth regular mission to the ISS on behalf of NASA, but the first to … Read more
Entrepreneur Dennis Tito was the first Earthling to pay for a space trip in 2001. More than twenty years later, he wants to do it again. The American said on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, that he intended to participate with his wife in a future mission around the Moon organized by the American company SpaceX. … Read more
by Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette PARIS (Reuters) – The European Space Agency (ESA) has started initial technical discussions with SpaceX, the company of billionaire Elon Musk, which could lead to temporary use of its launch vehicles after the war in Ukraine blocked Western access to Russian Soyuz rockets. Arianespace’s American competitor is with Japan … Read more
As part of a static test at its Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX on Tuesday continued to simultaneously fire multiple engines of a prototype of the Super Heavy booster for its future heavy launch vehicle Spaceship. In total these are 11 Raptor 2 engines (with a pressure of 230 tons each) which were … Read more
The powerful one launcherlauncher of SpaceXSpaceXThe Falcon Heavy, successfully lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 1eh November at 13:41 GMT (14:41 Paris time) across fogfog. It had been three years since he had returned to the space service. His mission, classified as top secret, was to place … Read more
