This is not a scoop:going to Space is far from accessible to everyone. If SpaceX wants to launch its first space tourism mission by the end of 2021, the European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch a recruitment campaign to hire new astronauts. However, the last ESA campaign dates back to 2011! A c

Ingenuity, the first helicopter sent to another planet, survived the riskiest seven minutes of the mission. Still installed in the belly of Perseverance, it is doing well, and is now preparing for a historic first flight. As ​​you know, Perseverance, NASAs Mars 2020 mission rover, successfully land

NASA and Boeing plan to conduct a second hot-firing test of the SLS super-heavy launch vehicle this Thursday French time. For now, the Artemis I mission is still scheduled to launch around the Moon in November. The SLS will roar again After the failure of the first static firing test of the SLS boo

At just 29 years old, Hayley Arceneaux, physician assistant and survivor of childhood bone cancer, will soon become one of the youngest people to fly in the world. space thanks to SpaceX. Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, will travel this year with SpaceX on the companys first all

NASA is planning a first manned mission to Mars at the end of the 2030s. But to do this, it will have to think about and develop another means of propulsion. Something to shorten travel times in space. Chemical propulsion To leave Earth, operating agencies and companies have always relied on conven

A recent study suggests that Phobos and Deimos, the two moons of Mars, are the remains of an ancient common body, disintegrated between 1 and 2 years ago, 7 billion years. This work has also confirmed that the larger of the two, Phobos, is already doomed. Two Martian potatoes Mars has two moons tod

Third space power, China once again shows its ambitions for human exploration of deep space, by officially announcing the development of its super heavy Long March launcher 9. The Chinese space program has made significant progress in recent years. Two years ago, the country notably distinguished i

How did supermassive black holes first form? This is the puzzle that scientists are trying to solve to understand the evolution of galaxies. Rather than conventional formation scenarios, a new theoretical study proposes a novel mechanism for creating supermassive black holes from dark matter. Befo

China has just released the first photos of its lunar samples brought back by the Change 5 mission last December. Some of these rocks will also soon be presented to the public in Beijing. Last December, China wrapped up its Change 5 mission, the objective of which was to collect and bring back to E

Researchers have cultivated extremophilic microbes in a small piece of a Martian meteorite. This work demonstrated that life could potentially exist under ancient Martian conditions. As you probably know, a mission is in preparation to bring back Martian samples put aside by the rover Perseverance

As part of its next recruitment campaign, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shown its openness to people with disabilities. The agency has announced its intention to conduct a study that could potentially identify feasible adaptations to allow these people to travel in space. ESA wants to recruit

The Chinese National Space Administration has just executed a trajectory maneuver for its Tianwen-1 mission allowing it to adjust its orbit. The country is now preparing for its landing on Mars. While Perseverance is still making headlines following its successful landing on the red planet, China i

The Gateway Foundation aims to create the first orbital station with artificial gravity. On board, tourists and researchers will be able to stay for several weeks. The foundation wishes to make it operational from 2025. If the timetable seems very ambitious, the project remains nevertheless fascinat

The James Webb Telescope has completed its final functional performance tests, confirming that the observatorys internal electronics are working as expected, and that all instruments will be able to send and receive data correctly once in space. More than ever, the James Webb Telescope is ready for

Rocket Lab unveiled a new class of rocket in development on Monday. The launch vehicle, called Neutron, will be able to carry up to eight metric tons of payload into orbit. The vehicle will also feature a fully reusable first stage. For five years, SpaceX has been revolutionizing the aerospace sect

SpaceX is preparing to launch its next Starship prototype, known as SN10, on a ten-kilometre test flight from its Boca Chica site . The flight could take place in the evening. FAA closes SN9 crash investigation As ​​you know, the Starship SN9 prototype successfully took off on February 2 over south

Will the SN10 land safely? That was the question everyone was asking Wednesday night about the Starships third test flight. Answer:yes!… And no. The prototype indeed landed in one piece, before exploding a few minutes later. Nevertheless, this test is still a real success. For this high-altitude fl

The Perseverance rover recently took its first steps on Mars and has already delivered many images. At the time of their presentation, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory had notably returned to the very first image of Mars dating from 1965. From the Mariner 4 probe, it had been colored by hand! The firs

Relativity Space is gearing up for its first 3D-printed rocket launch later this year. If successful, the young company could shake up the aerospace industry, just like SpaceX did a few years ago. Two ambitious engineers While still a teenager, Tim Ellis, the companys co-founder, passed the time by

The United States Space Agency recently discussed collaboration with three other agencies for the Mars Exploration Ice Mapper. This mission will aim to map the ice that the first astronauts could exploit on the Red Planet. Catching up on China In July 2020, China launched its long-awaited Tianwen-1