Posts by tag: "Spaceships"

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo mission carried 770,000 liters of kerosene, as well as liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been expl...

Catapult on steroids. Chinese railgun will launch crewed ships into space

To deliver astronauts into space requires an incredible amount of fuel (for example, the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo mission, carried 770,000 liters of kerosene and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer), so researchers have long been studying ...

"Voyager 1" briefly made contact and offered hope for the resumption of NASA's historic mission

A month ago, it was believed that the 46-year-old space probe was "lost" due to a memory error. In fact, there was communication with the spacecraft, but it was meaningless - its messages were in gibberish. In early March, the spacecraft "Voyager-1"...