by rmil2k | Dec 4, 2023 | News
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took manual control of an incoming cargo ship carrying tons of supplies after its automated rendezvous system suffered a glitch. The unpiloted cargo ship, called Progress 86, docked to the station’s...
by rmil2k | Dec 4, 2023 | News
The giant sunspot AR 3354 on June 29, 2023. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory During partial phases of a solar eclipse, one popular activity is to project and capture solar crescents when trees are in leaf. Tiny spaces between leaves can act as natural pinhole...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz announced the discovery of a previously unknown planetoid in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. The team named this object Eris after the Greek personification of strife and...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
Agency 01/12/2023 870 views 30 likes Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching a ride on a Space-X...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
SpaceX added 23 more satellites to its Starlink internet constellation on Saturday night (Dec. 2).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the communications satellites lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on Dec....
