19 January 2021, 8:44 pm EST By
SpaceX would carry almost 100 satellites to orbit with its Falcon 9 rocket launch this Thursday, January 21, 2021. It involves cargo from the government, Starlink, and other private companies and commercial entities. This feat was never before attempted by the space company, but would do it at the start of 2021, and would be able to handle the load it will bring.
(Photo : (Photo by Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images))
TITUSVILLE, FL - MAY 22: SpaceX s Dragon spacecraft atop rocket Falcon 9 lifts off from Pad 40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Titusville, Florida. The launch this morning makes SpaceX the first commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.
18 January 2021, 7:57 pm EST By
The International Space Station is not a station that places itself on one point in the orbit but is continuously moving to match the Earth s rotation and revolution around the Sun. That being said, it is that time of the year again, where the International Space Station would be seen from the planet without the necessary equipment and would appear several times in different locations.
(Photo : Photo by NASA via Getty Images)
In this handout photo provided by NASA, the International Space Station is seen over a blue and white Earth, taken shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis undocked from the orbital outpost at 7:50 a.m. CDT. The unlinking completed six days, two hours and two minutes of joint operations with the station crew. Atlantis left the station with a new, second pair of 240-foot solar wings, attached to a new 17.5-ton section of truss with batteries, electronics and a giant rotating joint.
19 January 2021, 5:42 am EST By
During this year s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2021, Japanese photography company Canon has unveiled its latest project involved in the company s space photography initiative: an interactive website where visitors can take photos of various places, from space.
(Photo : NASA on Unsplash)
Thanks to the CE-SAT-1
According to HYPEBEAST, the website works thanks to the company s very own CE-SAT-1, a satellite roughly the size of a wine barrel and weighs around 66 kilograms only.
It was launched into space in 2017.
The satellite is equipped with an EOS 5D Mark III DSLR that is fitted with a 40cm Cassegrain-type 3270mm telescope that is capable of taking snapshots of images that come in at about 36 inches of ground resolution within a 3x2 mile frame when the satellite is at an orbit of 375 miles.