By 2020, Chinese scientists plan to launch an artificial moon into orbit to illuminate city streets after dark. According to calculations, it could be eight times brighter than the actual, real Moon, since it will be located much closer to the Earth. Scientists hope to place artificial ...
SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has announced that it has selected the first tourist to travel to the moon on a Big Falcon rocket (BFR), writes Fox News. The company wrote on Twitter that the passenger's name will be announced on Monday at 21:00. “SpaceX signed the first ...
The new Hollywood film "Man on the Moon", which tells about the landing of the first people on a satellite of the Earth, angered American critics and journalists, who accuse the filmmakers of the lack of patriotism, because the film landed on the moon without using the US flag. The essence of the scandal was described ...
The first Israeli lunar exploration vehicle will be launched in December this year. A month before the launch, Israel will transfer the spacecraft to the United States, after which Elon Musk's company will launch it into space on a Falcon 9 rocket. The landing of the rover on the moon is scheduled for 13 ...
The longest solar eclipse in history is expected on August 21 this year. It will last 1,5 hours. For the first time in four decades, residents of 14 states and six major US cities will be able to observe it. The eclipse will start at 11:45 am (New York time) at sunrise ...
Private space company SpaceX has announced the opening of tourist flights to the moon. The first 2 tourists who have already paid for the trip will fly to the Moon in 2018. At the same time, SpaceX is not yet ready for either a spacecraft for flights or a rocket capable of sending it to an Earth satellite, writes meduza.io. SpaceX's long flight will send space ...
The American company Moon Express has the opportunity to become the first private company to send its spacecraft to the Moon. On Wednesday, the US government approved the project for the Florida-based mission. “Only three superpowers have landed on any planet - we will become the fourth superpower,” he promised...
2016 is rich in astronomical events that simply cannot be missed. Using data from the website Astronet.ru, “Forum” has compiled a list of the most interesting of them - add it to your calendar so as not to miss it. One of the brightest meteor showers “Quadrantids” The powerful meteor shower “Quadrantids”, formed as a result of the death…
Russian cosmonauts will travel to the moon and land on its surface in 2029. The head of the Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Vladimir Solntsev, spoke about this at a conference on space technologies. “2029 is a man's flight to the Moon and landing on it,” he said ...
The space agencies of Russia and the European Union have signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of the exploration of the Moon. Initially, we are talking about the launches of unmanned vehicles, which will be engaged in research in the region of the South Pole of the Moon, but in the future it is planned to conduct a manned flight and create a permanent inhabited settlement there. ...