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  Moscow. February 9. INTERFAX.RU - The American private aerospace company SpaceX lost about 40 Starlink Internet satellites out of 49 launched into orbit on February 3, as a result of a geomagnetic storm, the company reported on its website. "Preliminary analysis showed that the increased resistance at low altitudes did not allow the satellites to leave safe mode and begin orbit correction, about 40 satellites will return or have already returned to the Earth's atmosphere," the company said in a statement. The company noted that due to the storm, air resistance has become 50% stronger than with previous launches. Experts decided to transfer the mini-satellites to a safe mode, in which they moved in orbit "sideways" to reduce resistance, but these measures did not help. According to the company, the devices that have deorbited do not pose a threat to other satellites and are designed to burn up upon entry into the Earth's atmosphere. The   launch of 49 Sta...

SUCCESSFUL  LAUNCH Mon, Feb 14th, 2022 PSLV-XL-EOS-04 Startup time: 5:59 AM Place of launch: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India EOS-04? also called RISAT (Radar Imaging Satellite) is an Indian Earth remote sensing satellite designed for radar reconnaissance. WATCH LIVE LAUNCH

SUCCESSFUL  LAUNCH   Thu, February 10  Soyuz-ST-B   — OneWeb 13 Launch Time: 6:09 PM Launch Location: Kourou, French Guiana   WATCH LIVE LAUNCH    

Mon,   February 14 Electron — Without Mission a Beat Startup time: 6:25 AM India Standard Time Launch Site: LC-1A, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, LC-1A BlackSky 16 and 17 are part of sixty high-resolution Earth observation microsatellites in the BlackSky orbital constellation. This constellation will provide real-time observation of the Earth. The constellation is built by Blacksky, a subsidiary of SpaceFlight, and the satellites are manufactured by LeoStella LLC, a joint venture between Spaceflight Industries and Thales Alenia Space. The second generation of satellites is equipped with improved solar panels and more advanced equipment for obtaining images.                                                     WATCH LIVE LAUNCH

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A full-size model of the twin-engine reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle "Sirius" created by the Kronstadt Group at the Kronstadt Group (Moscow), 26.02.2021. Image source: Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Manned aviation acts mainly as a strike weapon against targets detected by Sirius, noted in the company "Kronstadt" MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The latest Russian heavy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "Sirius" will be able to work as part of reconnaissance and strike circuits together with manned aviation. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the company "Kronstadt". "The ability to interact with manned aviation means joint work as part of reconnaissance and strike circuits, where the complex with uaVs acts as a reconnaissance and an operational strike weapon against ground and surface objects detected by it. Manned aviation acts mainly as a strike weapon against targets detected by Sirius," the ...

Image Credit: spacex  Washington. February 3. INTERFAX – A falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle on Thursday successfully launched into orbit a batch of 49 mini-satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global Network of Internet coverage of the Starlink system, the developer of SpaceX said. "The withdrawal of 49 Starlink satellites has been confirmed," the report said. The launch was carried out at 13:13 on the east coast of the United States (at 21:13 Moscow time) from the launch complex 39A at the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Liftoff! SpaceX's orbital constellation now consists of 2,089 spacecraft weighing 290 kg each. Currently, the company is the largest satellite operator in the world. About 15.5 minutes after the launch, 49 satellites separated from the second stage of the rocket in an elliptical transition orbit with an altitude of up to 340 km. After checking their performance by SpaceX engineers, the satellites using their own ion engines will ris...