NASA’s “exoplanets hunter” is up and running
TESS space telescope that shall find thousands of planets in other star systems is launched. NASA has successfully launched…
World’s first space hotel may be constructed by 2022
California-based startup Orion Span has announced that space hotel will be in orbit within four years. Startup Orion…
Ion-driven air motor
The ESA has created an ion engine propellant with air. A satellite equipped with such an engine may fly in the upper…
Stratolaunch: into space from the largest aircraft
World’s largest plane is being created to make space flights more affordable. This relates to Stratolaunch, from where space rockets will be…
All you need to know about SpaceX intentions to colonize both the Moon and Mars
On September 25-29 the 68th International Astronautical Congress 2017 IAC2017 was held in Adelaide (Australia). This event was of landmark nature because…
New technologies that will kill the traditional TV. Again
Will television ever become the thing of the past? Or it is already in the past? The biggest annual TV and broadcasting…
Ukrainian nanosatellite gears up for scientific tasks as a part of QB50 international project
Ukrainian nanosatellite PolyITAN-2-SAU operates fault-free, and it is expected that by the end of September it will start taking…
Cubes on orbit: serious science thanks to almost toy space satellites
Ukrainian scientists explore the least studied part of the Earth’s atmosphere using the nanosatellite within the framework of large international project QB50 We…
1,000 Days in Orbit: MAVEN’s Top 10 Discoveries at Mars
On June 17, NASA’s MAVEN will celebrate 1,000 Earth days in orbit around the Red Planet. Since its launch in November 2013 and…
Space junk can destroy satellites, scientists say
At least 170 million pieces of rapidly-moving space junk are now circulating in Earth’s orbit and this debris may even lead to…