On 8th July 2011, the STS-135 space mission was launched. It was the final flight into space for Atlantis spacecraft, as well as the beginning of the last mission within the NASA Space Shuttle programme. […]
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 […]
On 16th June 1963, Vostok 6 spacecraft was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome, with just one cosmonaut on board – Valentina Tereshkova, who became the first woman in space. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Валентина Владимировна Терешкова) was […]
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 […]
On 3rd November 1957, another milestone in space exploration was achieved. On that very day, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the first spacecraft to carry an animal into the Earth´s orbit – a space […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are mainly responsible for weather and climate monitoring. However, being a part of global COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system, they additionally contributed to rescuing 350 […]
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