News about space
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos published on April 20 in the network X video of the successful landing of the reusable booster rocket New Glenn. This is the company’s key project in the segment of heavy launches.
Today, April 12, marks the 65th anniversary of the first human space flight. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the Vostok-1 spacecraft made a historic 108-minute flight, opening the era of space exploration. Today, anyone can conquer space for a certain amount of money, and it is much lower.
Ilon Musk has been perceived for many years as a guru of markets, technologies and trends. His posts in social networks serve as a signal to many people – what to buy, what to pay attention to, where to invest.
Ilon Musk’s planned initial public offering of SpaceX shares has long been stirring the markets. On Monday, at a meeting with bankers, the billionaire shocked the business world again. He said he intends to reserve a significant portion of shares for private investors and hold a major event for 1,500 of them in June after the launch of the IPO roadshow.
The U.S.-Canadian crew of the spacecraft Artemis II has reached the farthest distance ever traveled by man – 252,752 miles from Earth.
China’s first ever formally commercial launch of a rocket carrying cargo into Earth orbit was successful, and the launch cost was more than 10 percent lower than SpaceX’s Falcon 9, according to Logos Press.
On Wednesday, four astronauts set off on a mission to the moon. It is the first manned lunar mission in more than 50 years. The journey will last about 10 days and is designed to pave the way for a lunar landing in 2028.
NASA head Jared Isaacman announced the launch of a project to build a permanent base on the surface of the moon, according to Logos Press.
The U.S. will launch a nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft for the first time in history, according to Logos Press.
Bureau 1440, a private Russian aerospace company, made the first batch launch of 16 spacecraft on March 23 evening. This is the first step towards the creation of the company’s low-orbit constellation to provide communications with global coverage – analogous to Russia’s Starlink.
Nvidia-backed company Starcloud plans to launch a satellite with ASIC miners on board by the end of the year. This was announced by the CEO of the firm Philip Johnston.
Virgin Galactic is preparing to re-activate the direction of space tourism and occupy the vacated niche in the market of suborbital flights. This was announced by the founder of the company, British entrepreneur Richard Branson during a speech at a space conference in London.
SpaceX CEO Ilon Musk has declared high confidence in achieving full reusability of the Starship V3 rocket system.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sharply criticized the concept of placing artificial intelligence computing data centers in Earth’s orbit, calling it “ridiculous” in the current environment, according to Logos Press.
On Thursday, February 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully sent a heavy version of an Ariane 6 rocket into space from the Kourou launch site in French Guiana with Amazon satellites, Logos Press reports.
