Новости за 16.03.2017

SpaceX beat United Launch Alliance to win a $96.5 million contract to launch a GPS 3 navigation satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in early 2019, the U.S. Air Force announced March 14.

Next week's launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft packed with NASA cargo has been delayed by a few more days to Friday (March 24) to allow more time to replace a suspect rocket component, according to NASA officials.

The Trump administration released its 2018 budget request Thursday (March 16), a proposal that calls for the cancellation of NASA's mission tent pole astronauts-to-an-asteroid mission along with four Earth science missions and NASA's Office of Education.

A look at the past, present and future of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NASA's acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, released a statement today (March 16) about the Trump Administration's newly-released 2018 budget proposal, which allocates $19.1 billion to the agency.

Learn about the size, shape and composition of asteroids as well as their history, naming conventions, and plans to mine asteroids in the future.

The Information Gathering Satellite (IGS) Radar 5 lifted off atop a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center tonight at 9:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT, and 10:20 a.m. local Japan time on March 17).

The sun's unceasing activity affects our planet beyond providing obvious light and heat.

Astronauts have several tactics for mastering the art of sleeping in space that have also been proven to be useful for snoozing on Earth. Read on for some sleeping tips and tricks that are down to Earth as well as out of this world.

Two large dust storms in two weeks, each spanning an area larger than the United States, have researchers pondering the atmospheric dynamics on Mars.

Satellite manufacturers are turning increasingly to additive manufacturing to reduce the cost and time required to design and build spacecraft.

Most launch ranges aren't equipped to handle reusable rockets, space experts said, despite the technology being widely viewed as a key to reducing launch costs.

Two telescopes teamed up to image one of the most massive known galaxy clusters. The results can help astronomers understand the universe and its origins.

The president's 2018 federal budget blueprint, which was released today (March 16), would cancel a proposed NASA mission to put a life-hunting lander down on the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa.

A new exhibition at the Science Museum in London celebrates the life of the first woman in space, from Valentina Tereshkova's days as a factory worker through her 1963 space mission in Earth orbit to her on going role as a global icon for her country.

On March 16, 2017, the private spaceflight company launched a communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation.

The strangely shifting island-like feature in one of the Saturn moon Titan's hydrocarbon seas may actually be a raft of fizzing nitrogen bubbles, a new study suggests.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Thursday (March 16) to deliver the heavyweight EchoStar 23 communications satellite into a high-altitude orbit, a mission near the limit of the booster’s capability.

On March 16, 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the EchoStar 23 communications satellite into orbit from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. See photos from the awesome launch here.

A commercial spacecraft scheduled to ferry humans to the International Space Station underwent a successful parachute test in New Mexico last month, according to NASA.