On 21st August 2025, less than six months after concluding its seventh mission, the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) was again launched into space. Lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the OTV […]
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 14th April 1958, the Sputnik 2 – the second spacecraft that was launched into the orbit – re-entered the Earth´s atmosphere after spending 162 days in space and encircling our planet 2570 times. The […]
On Saturday 12th November 2022, the Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, operated by the US Space Force, returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 5:22 am ET (10:22 […]
On 28th January 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA STS-51-L mission) broke apart, killing all crew aboard. STS-51-L was the 25th mission within the US Space Shuttle programme and, at the same time, had to […]
On Tuesday, 5th October 2021, at 08:55:02 UTC, ´Soyuz-2.1a´ carrier rocket launched successfully with ´Soyuz MS-19´ spacecraft. Its crew consisted of three people – cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (´Soyuz MS-19´ crewed spacecraft commander and ISS-66 mission […]
Space stations… The very first attempt of mankind to create a space habitat. Our dream to establish an orbital station allowing humans to stay in space for a longer period of time began to take […]
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