Category: Robotics

On May 24, 2023, the private American aerospace company Rocket Lab, using its Electron rocket, will send its own Photon spacecraft to Venus, which will have to collect data on the chemical composition of its atmosphere. The backup launch window will be available in January 2025.⠀In October 2023, Photon will enter orbit around Venus, and…

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission has experienced its second rendezvous with the Sun. Solar Orbiter was located at a distance of 0.29 AU from the Sun. The corona is the outer atmosphere of the Sun. The photo shows the dynamic nature of the solar corona, incandescent by a million degrees. The solar plasma is in…

In the new study, scientists used the radiation spectrum of a brown dwarf to determine the composition of VHS 1256-1257 b. The study showed that water, methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, sodium and potassium are common in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf. Inside the atmosphere, scientists were able to detect clouds of silicates.…

The Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 space probes will have some systems disabled to extend their operability at least until 2030. The fact is that the United States, together with European countries, plan to launch the Interstellar spacecraft into space in the early 2030s, which will partially duplicate the goals of the Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 missions. Both…

Previously, the device was running on a special version of Windows 98 and was already preparing to complete its program. Scientists have found that it is too early for the probe to retire. After the update, Mars Express will begin to cover a large area of the surface of Mars for study.Scientists expect that using…

The inclinometer of the Ingenuity Martian helicopter failed — this was affected as a result of a strong decrease in the night temperature of the environment as a result of the onset of winter on Mars. Now the copter will use an inertial measurement module to assess roll and pitch before takeoff, which will take…

DAVINCI and the automatic VERITAS station were chosen by NASA to implement the Discovery program. A project to create an orbital repeater probe and a descent atmospheric probe. All this should be prepared and launched, sent to Venus in June 2029. It will take six months for the CRIS orbiter to make its close flyby…

Under the placed station located on the surface of Mars is about three meters of sandy regolith. Then, as a result of scanning, there is 20 meters of breccia formed as a result of meteorite falls. A layer of Amazonian basalts, followed by sedimentary rocks. And the last thing they were able to scan was…

Astronaut Ann McClain is suspected of spying on his ex-wife from the ISS. McLane’s ex-wife, Samar Worden, found out that someone had looked at her bank account details by simply entering her own username and password. Summer Warden asked the representatives of the bank to determine the location of the computer from which someone logged…

Antennas for spacecraft communication systems are one of the few things in the industry for which “size matters”. After all, it is the size of the antenna that primarily determines its gain, radiation pattern and other parameters that ultimately affect the very possibility of communication or observation. The bigger the antenna, the better it is.…