The Pigeon Express
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a “persistent hum” beyond our solar system. Voyager 1, is one of Earth’s longest-flying probe launched on September 5 1977, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. The craft initially designed to last five years, more than 43 years after they launched, the probe are still sending back […]
Rocket company SpaceX will put a literal Dogecoin on the moon. Elon Musk, the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of SpaceX in a tweet said the commercial space exploration firm will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” early next year. The mission will be funded by the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin. The DOGE-1 is […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter’s blades as it flies through the rarefied Martian atmosphere. The space agency released footage shot by the six-wheeled robot of its rotorcraft companion making its fourth flight on April 30, accompanied by an audio track. The nearly three-minute-long video […]
The debris of China’s rocket launched last month plunged back through the atmosphere, landing west of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. “After monitoring and analysis, at 10:24 on May 9, 2021, the last-stage wreckage of the Long March 5B Yao-2 launch vehicle has re-entered the atmosphere,” the China Manned Space Engineering Office said in […]
SpaceX has achieved the first successful touchdown of its prototype Starship rocket during the latest test flight of the next-generation launch vehicle in southern Texas in the United States after four previous landing attempts ended in explosions. Wednesday’s feat marked a key milestone for the private rocket company of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk in […]
A large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend has brought about an alarming but not unprecedented situation. The Chinese Long March 5B rocket is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere “around May 8,” according to a statement from Defense Department spokesperson Mike Howard, who said the US […]
When you brazenly attempt to download pirated movies off the internet using Elon Musk’s Starlink services you’ll receive warnings. A reddit user put up a piracy alert warning he got from SpaceX this weekend. The warning message read that the company insist its subscribers refrain from downloading illegal or copyrighted content utilizing the Starlink service. […]
Strange lights seen over the skies of Seattle Tuesday night have left some residents wondering whether they have seen a UFO. Dozens of people took to Twitter to share footage of the unexplained lights, with many claiming it was evidence of extraterrestrial activity. Several videos show the long thin line of lights moving quickly across […]
Four astronauts have returned to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa’s first night-time landing in 53 years. The crew consist of three Nasa astronauts and one from Japan’s space agency Jaxa, who spent almost six months in space. They flew back in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience and splash-landed off Panama City, […]
The US space agency has announced it is extending its Mars helicopter mission. Nasa said the first three flights of the drone, called Ingenuity, had worked so well it would now be moving from a demonstration to an operational phase. This means the chopper will support Nasa’s Perseverance Rover, helping with its hunt for signs […]
China has launched a module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing’s increasingly ambitious space programme. The Tianhe Core module contains living quarters for crew members. It was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre on a Long March-5B rocket. China hopes to have the new station operational by 2022. The only […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its third flight on Mars, flying “faster and farther” than it did in any test flights on Earth. The United States space agency in a statement on Sunday said the helicopter travelled 50 metres at a top speed of two metres per second. It was Ingenuity’s third flight since it […]