Американская Virgin Orbit, которая входит в Virgin Group британского миллиардера Ричарда Брэнсона и запускает спутники, рассчитывает привлечь от инвесторов до $200 млн и получить оценку в $1 млрд, пишет The Wall Street Journal со ссылкой на информированные источники.

Blue Origin successfully completed the 13th New Shepard mission on October 13, 2020. New Shepard flew 12 commercial payloads to space on this mission, including the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing Sensor Demonstration with NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate under a Tipping Point partnership. This was the first payload to fly mounted on the exterior of a New Shepard booster rather than inside the capsule, opening the door to a wide range of future high-altitude sensing, sampling, and exposure payloads.

Also on board were tens of thousands of postcards from students around the world from Blue Origin’s nonprofit, Club for the Future, some of which will include a special NASA Artemis stamp.  

With this successful mission, New Shepard has flown more than 100 payloads to space across 10 sequential flights. All mission crew supporting this launch exercised strict social distancing and safety measures to mitigate COVID-19 risks to personnel, customers, and surrounding communities. Learn more about this mission…

Vadim Lukashevich claims, that Roscosmos is going to accuse a 20-year-old boy, an employee of the their press service Artem Zharov of writing “Fedor’s Friday’s tweets”. According to his sources, Artem didn’t do this, at least not on his own. https://t.co/sWCxdhBDHF

More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - in a July 17, 2015 test of a Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine at NASA's Stennis Space Center, operators conducted a 535-second firing, in a range of power levels, including a period at 109 percent of the engine’s rated power.

Data collected on performance of the engine at the various power levels will aid in adapting the former space shuttle engines to the new SLS vehicle mission requirements.

Four RS-25 engines will use the modified engines to help power the SLS core stage during launch.

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