by rmil2k | Apr 25, 2024 | News
The first of two boosters that will power the Ariane 6 ‘flight model-1’ into orbit this summer was transported on 25 April 2024 from the booster storage facility in Kourou, French Guiana, to the launch zone. Tomorrow, the second booster will be transported from the...
by rmil2k | Apr 25, 2024 | News
Our sun is known for its occasional outburst of energy called a solar flare, which can trigger space weather capable of disrupting communications and power infrastructure here on Earth.But we should really be grateful that we doesn’t exist around a star that...
by rmil2k | Apr 25, 2024 | News
Evidence suggests that a devastating barrage of meteorites rained down on the Dead Sea city of Tall el-Hammam in what is now Jordan. And, according to some researchers who think Tall el-Hammam was the biblical city of Sodom, that scenario could explain its...
by rmil2k | Apr 25, 2024 | News
Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Astronomers using TESS think they are made a rather surprising discovery; their first free-floating – or...
by rmil2k | Apr 24, 2024 | News
On 24 April 2024 the central core for Europe’s new rocket Ariane 6 that will fly to space for the first time was moved upright on the launch pad.Four automated vehicles transported the Ariane 6 central core, that consists of the main and upper stage, from the launcher...
