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It was suggested that this meteorite was previously a part of the asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43. The meteorite disintegrated at an altitude of 30-45 kilometers above the Earth. How could be that they didn't identify the objects near the Earth? The only advantage was that scientists received at...

NASA relied on Russian Soyuz for 10 years, however, Soyuz is much older than Shuttle. Soyuz rockets have been flying to space for over 40 years. In 2020 thanks to SpaceX NASA will no longer depend on Russian Soyuz which increases the price for each flight for American astronauts constantly.

Collisions with the Earth may occur on August 26, 2032, but according to the Turin Asteroid Hazard Scale, a new celestial body can receive class 1 - the lowest rank, which means that there is practically no risk, but it is still not equal to zero.

There are many rocket manufacturer companies in the world, but none of them actually launch rovers to Mars or Moon - this only for NASA these days. But as for me, there is not much benefit from rovers - for the age of rovers, they haven't even approximately been to finding anything useful for...

Unlike the previous satellites of the program, Landsat-8 was equipped with not a scanning mirror is used, but a Push broom scanner scheme with linear sensors. In the focal plane of the mission's main instrument, Operational Land Imager (OLI), 14 Focal Plane Modules are installed, each module...

Despite the fact this year is considered not to be a good one - there already were two successful launches to ISS on American modules - the last one was on November 17. The flight to the ISS took 27 and a half hours and at the time of docking the ISS was over Ohio.

On April 30, NASA announced the selection of SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics as companies to develop lunar lander projects for the Artemis space program.

I was always wondering if the shuttle program wasn't closed after those disasters and continued to be launched then why it was closed only in 2011 saying that it is to dangerous and so on..

NASA has already sent the fifth rover to explore Mars - Perseverance. For building it NASA used the previous rover details. Perseverance is equipped with a special apparatus MOXIE, which will try to generate oxygen from carbon dioxide present in the Martian atmosphere, as well as microphones and...