Author name: Riccardo Rambaldi

SN-8 flight

SpaceX’s Starship SN8 successful 12.5 km flight test

The vehicle SN8, the most updated Starship prototype, was initially scheduled for launch on December 8 after successfully accomplishing the fourth static test on November 25. The launch was called-off two seconds before the lift-off as SN8 noticed abnormalities with one or more of its three raptor engines. On December 9, the second attempt was […]

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Path of 40 thousands stars over the next 400 thousands years

GAIA space observatory’s new map of the Milky Way tracks billions of stars

The Milky Way will have a more detailed map, thanks to all the informations that GAIA gathered in its six years of activity. ESA’s GAIA space observatory was launched in 2013 and began its job in July 2014. Orbiting at 1.5 kilometers away from Earth, the 1$ billion spacecraft is capable to observe 100 thousands

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Sentinel-6

SpaceX Sentinel-6 mission begins to map sea levels

SpaceX’s latest endeavour of mapping the rise in sea level took off at the end of last month. The Falcon-9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, launched at 9:17 a.m. PST (12:17 p.m. EST) on Nov. 21, 2020, from Space Launch Complex-4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. SpaceX’s latest endeavour of

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