At the end of June, Oleg Kononenko celebrated his 61st birthday. And this creates a perfect opportunity to mention the Russian cosmonaut and milestones in space exploration he achieved, breaking several records of most time […]
In recent months, references are made to possible use of McDonnel Douglas F-4 Phantom II for space launch missions. Such speculations arose in late April of 2025, due to financial documents published by Starfighters Space, […]
On 17th March 2025, the fifth edition of the French military space exercise – codenamed AsterX 2025 – began at Centre national d’études spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies – CNES), Toulouse Space Centre. Organised […]
We are, obviously, referring to the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, which, on 18th January 2024, made its final, 72nd flight over the surface of the Red Planet. The flight which marked the end of its Martian […]
On 2nd December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Polish Ministry of Development and Technology (Ministerstwo Rozwoju i Technologii – MRiT) and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) announced Ignis to be the official name […]
On 5th August 2024, Axiom Space – a Houston-based US company, involved in the development of astronautical technologies and commercial space tourism – has published a press release disclosing its future space exploration plans and […]
On 9th July 2024, Ariane 6 expendable launch system made its maiden flight from ELA-4 launch pad at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch, considered a milestone of the European space […]
Continuous scientific, educational and technological research in low Earth orbit, as well as deep space exploration, have been one of the main goals of NASA for decades. Currently, one of the key outposts of such […]
18th June 2024 marked forty-one years since Sally Kristen Ride flew into space aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, thus becoming the first American woman in space. On 16th January 1978, NASA publicly announced names of […]
Tensions, which aroused between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War, led to mutual economic and technological rivalry between both superpowers. Part of their competition was to conquer space by […]
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