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Rafale fighters to protect Ariane 6 launch

12 July 2024 Jacek Domański

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 […]

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NASA choses SpaceX to deorbit the ISS

5 July 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

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41 years since the first US female astronaut flew into space

23 June 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

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 […]

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63 years since the NASA Mercury-Redstone 3 mission – the story of America’s first astronaut

15 May 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

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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19 April 2021 – first flight of the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity

18 April 2024 Jacek Domański

On 19th April 2021, the autonomous NASA helicopter Ingenuity made its first flight at Wright Brothers Field on Mars. Ingenuity (also nicknamed Ginny) became the first aircraft to perform powered and controlled extra-terrestrial flight. Although […]

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Boeing to produce WGS-12 communications satellite for the US Space Force

23 March 2024 Jacek Domański

The United States Space Forces (USSF) has recently chosen a manufacturer for the twelfth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite. At the beginning of March 2024, the 439.6 million USD contract was awarded to the […]

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New spaceflight record – more than 880 days in space

9 February 2024 Jacek Domański

On 4th February 2024, another milestone is space exploration was achieved. That very day, cosmonaut Oleg Dmitriyevich Kononenko (Олег Дмитриевич Кононенко), onboard of the International Space Station (ISS) broke the cumulative most-in-space record of 878.480 […]

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Historic journey of Ingenuity, NASA Mars Helicopter has come to end

31 January 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

In a news release published on 25th January 2024, NASA announced that, after three years, mission of its history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has regrettably come to an end. However, by this time, that first-ever powered […]

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Seventh mission of Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

8 January 2024 Kacper Kolibowski

On 29th December 2023, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Boeing X-37B reusable unmanned spaceplane with its seventh mission. Designated USSF-52, the flight is realized within National Security Space Launch programme of the United States […]

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Poland is another step closer for sending its second man to space

12 September 2023 Kacper Kolibowski

At the end of 2022, we shared on our website the great news that Poland stood the chance to have its second spaceman in history. It all started in November that year, when Sławosz Uznański […]

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    25 August 2025
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