Everyone knows SpaceX, both astronomy and space conquest enthusiasts and the first of the quidams. We have all heard of it, if only once. On this Friday, May 6, the American space company celebrates its 20th anniversary, after being founded by a divisive man with delirious ambitions: Elon Musk. However, to sum up two decades … Read more
After the recent leak of the Russian Soyuz capsule, anchored to the ISS, NASA asked SpaceX about the possibility of bringing back astronauts from the ISS with the Dragon capsule, already imagined by the Americans. The interrogation is part of a joint mission between NASA and Roscosmos to rescue astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey … Read more
by Matthias Bertrandpublished on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 17:17 • 4 min read Minerals rare on Earth, but abundant in space: this is becoming a real motivation for certain companies, which consider it simpler, even less expensive, to drill in orbit rather than to dig our planet. Why is this important?The new craze for … Read more
The Amelia Earhart III-6 GPS satellite will improve GPS accuracy and will be primarily intended for use by the United States Air Force. Photo credit: Bill Jelen This GPS III-6 satellite bears the name of Amelia Earhart, the first female airplane pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone and who disappeared in the middle of … Read more
SourceAFP Emirati ‘Space Sultan’ faces challenge of fasting during Ramadan © AFP/Karim SAHIB Published on 02/02/2023 at 5:38 p.m. Subscriber-only audio playback I subscribe to 1€ the 1st month Un Emirati astronaut, nicknamed the “Sultan of space”, said Thursday he was ready to spend the month of Ramadan in the International Space Station (ISS), underlining … Read more
Posted 2 Feb. 2023 at 4:50 PM After having bet billions of dollars, Microsoft intends to exploit the potential of ChatGPT. The American computer giant has announced that OpenAI technology will be used to automatically generate meeting notes, task recommendations or personalized special points on its Teams desktop application. This is to integrate these features … Read more
The boss of Tesla – and of Twitter, since the end of October – had created amazement on August 7, 2018 by saying that he wanted to withdraw his group from the Stock Exchange at a price of 420 dollars per share, then assuring that the financing was “secured “. (Photo: Getty Images) San Francisco … Read more
⇧ [VIDÉO] You might also like this partner content (after ad) On January 18, a mysterious blue spiral appeared for a few minutes in the night sky above Hawaii. The phenomenon was observed by a camera attached to the Subaru Telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, installed at the top of Mauna Kea … Read more
“Columbia, this is Houston […] We didn’t catch the last (message)…”. Response from the Captain, Rick Husband: “Received, mm…”. Columbia has just sent its last message. Communication with Earth is abruptly interrupted. A few minutes later, the bolide which was to land fifteen minutes later at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, disintegrates in an … Read more
Has humanity finally picked up messages from elsewhere? The journal Nature Astronomy published a scientific article on Monday January 30 by a team of 17 researchers who say they have spotted 8 “interesting” signals as part of a search for extraterrestrial intelligence based on a new and promising method. This study is the result of … Read more