Joint mission of CNES and NASA The SWOT mission is a joint CNES and NASA mission in collaboration with the Canadian (CSA) and UK (UKSA) space agencies. It is dedicated to measuring the surface water level of lakes and rivers, the flow of rivers and to the very fine and precise determination of the dynamics … Read more
A SpaceX rocket is due to take off on Wednesday with a Japanese-built lander on board, which could become the first private – and Japanese – machine to land on the Moon. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for 3:39 a.m. Wednesday (0839 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A fallback date is scheduled … Read more
“In 5 years, will we be able to take off from France and be in New York in less than an hour?” “Yes”, definitely answers RTL Gwynne Shotwell, the president of Space X visiting France on September 12, 2022. At more than 27,000 km/h, the rocket would, for example, connect Paris to New York in … Read more
SpaceX sent its Falcon Heavy launcher into space last Tuesday for the first time since 2019 on the occasion of a mission for the US Space Force, the purpose of which has not been made public. The company then managed the last launch of its Falcon 9 last night, this time for Eutelsat. The opportunity … Read more
We can’t stop SpaceX! Inaugurated on June 4, 2010, the Falcon 9 of SpaceX has now been flying for just over twelve years. The day before yesterday, November 3, it carried out its 183rd orbital flight (not counting the voluntary in-flight destruction mission of January 2020), embarking for the occasion a new geostationary telecommunications satellite … Read more
It was with a broad smile that the four passengers left the capsule before being picked up by a helicopter to go to the Kennedy Space Center, where their families were waiting for them. “Congratulations, Inspiration4”, Then rejoiced on Twitter Elon Musk, the boss of SpaceX and at the origin of the project, using the … Read more
Published on : 09/30/2022 – 13:12 In an unprecedented way, NASA plans to call on the private sector to intervene on the Hubble satellite, which is publicly owned. The American space agency announced on Thursday September 29 that it had asked SpaceX to study the feasibility of a mission to the telescope to extend its … Read more
Paola Bueno Meteored Brazil 01 Feb 4 mins SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, after being abandoned for 7 years in space, is on a collision course with the moon. Part of a Falcon 9 rocket from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX space exploration program is on a collision course with the moon! The rocket’s upper stage, the … Read more
Paola Bueno Meteored Brazil 01 Feb 4 mins SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, after being abandoned for 7 years in space, is on a collision course with the moon. Part of a Falcon 9 rocket from billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX space exploration program is on a collision course with the moon! The rocket’s upper stage, the … Read more
In France, dozens of start-ups were born with the ambition to conquer the stars. This is the case of Spartan Space, in Grenoble. Its designer imagined a structure, named Eurohab, to allow astronauts to push their exploration on the Moon a little further. “Today, an astronaut can move away from his rocket lander by ten … Read more
