Weltall

India's leading private space company is on track to attempt its first orbital flight later this year. Skyroot Aerospace plans to launch the Vikram-1 vehicle within the next couple of months after completing final tests.

9. Mai 2026 Von KI berichtet

NASA has received a full-scale prototype of Blue Origin's Mark 2 crew cabin and will soon begin astronaut training exercises. The development supports the agency's goal of returning humans to the lunar surface in 2028.

A superluminous supernova nicknamed SN Winny, located 10 billion light-years away, appears in the sky five times due to gravitational lensing by two foreground galaxies. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich and other institutions have analyzed this rare event to measure the universe's expansion rate, known as the Hubble constant. The discovery could help resolve the ongoing Hubble tension between different measurement methods.

29. April 2026 Von KI berichtet

An international team of astronomers has determined that the Milky Way's star-forming disk ends around 35,000 to 40,000 light-years from the galactic center. Using stellar age mapping, they found a U-shaped pattern where star formation drops sharply beyond this boundary. Stars farther out are mostly older migrants drifting from inner regions.

The Pentagon has terminated the Global Positioning System Next-Generation Operational Control System, or OCX, after 16 years of development and escalating costs. US Space Force officials cited insurmountable testing issues that risked current GPS capabilities. The program, originally awarded to Raytheon in 2010, will be replaced by upgrades to the existing legacy system.

19. April 2026 Von KI berichtet

Blue Origin achieved a milestone by successfully landing and reusing the first stage of its New Glenn rocket for the third flight, but the upper stage failed to place its payload into the correct orbit. The launch occurred Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The booster, named Never Tell Me The Odds, touched down on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean after its second flight.