Blue Origin and Virgin Orbit will join SpaceX in the commercial spaceflight landscape in 2021
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space on 2nd try
Virgin Orbit Boeing 747-400 rocket launch platform, named Cosmic Girl, takes off from Mojave Air and Space Port, Mojave (MHV) on its second orbital launch demonstration in the Mojave Desert, north of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Hartman) Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched […]
Russia lifts UK telecom satellites into orbit
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia’s Far East on Friday, putting into orbit 36 UK telecommunications and internet satellites, the Roscosmos space agency said. The launch was the first and only one to take place from the cosmodrome this year, Roscosmos told AFP. The rocket took off at 1226 GMT, […]
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist — ScienceDaily
Astronomers are still searching for a hypothetical “Planet Nine” in the distant reaches of our solar system, but an exoplanet 336 light years from Earth is looking more and more like the Planet Nine of its star system . Planet Nine, potentially 10 times the size of Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune in a […]
US-European ocean monitoring satellite launches into orbit
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights was launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:17 a.m. and arced southward over the Pacific Ocean. The Falcon’s first […]
Weird ‘gravitational molecules’ could orbit black holes like electrons swirling around atoms
Black holes are notable for many things, especially their simplicity. They’re just … holes. That are “black.” This simplicity allows us to draw surprising parallels between black holes and other branches of physics. For example, a team of researchers has shown that a special kind of particle can exist around a pair of black holes […]
What if Earth shared its orbit with another planet?
The series “Imaginary Earths” speculates what the world might be like if one key aspect of life changed, be it related to the planet or with humanity itself. Earth is the only planet traveling within its nearly circular orbit around the sun. But what if Earth shared its orbit with another planet? One of the […]
Space station marking 20 years of people living in orbit
In this Oct. 29, 2000, file photo, the Soyuz booster is transported to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan. Two days later, U.S. astronaut Bill Shepherd, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalyov and Yuri Gidzenko blasted off to become the first residents on the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File) The International […]
