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2020 : l’envol, entre pélicans et fusées habitées

The twenties are at our doorstep. It represents an important step in the space field. First with the Artemis program of reconquest of the Moon, whose schedule to land a man - and a woman - at the end of 2024 (required by Trump) is difficult to maintain, but not impossible. Behind the scenes at the space centre, people believe in it. At least that's the impression I got on December 19, 2019 during the press conference in the open air (see photos).

28 déc. 20197 min de lecture

Février 2020 : la Suisse met le cap sur le Soleil

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-087, will launch the Solar Orbiter spacecraft for NASA and the European Space Agency. Built by Airbus Defense and Space, Solar Orbiter, or SolO, will travel inside the orbit of Mercury to study how the sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles blown by the solar wind into the interstellar medium.

25 déc. 20195 min de lecture

Un « garagiste » retape des camping-cars pour astronautes

The Starliner capsule named for this Calypso mission - in honor of Commander Cousteau - is back for a refit. A complete maintenance service that will allow it to fly again for the second mission piloted by veteran NASA astronaut Suni Williams. It's not yet for tomorrow, since NASA will first have to send the first astronauts from American soil to another Starliner cabin, the first manned mission since July 8, 2011.

24 déc. 20195 min de lecture

Starliner : rentrée sur Terre avec des airbags... martiens. Révolutionnaire !

Elle est rentrée toute propre, toute belle et toute entière. La capsule Starliner de Boeing a en effet atterri pile-poil à 5h58 (12h58 GMT, 13h58 en Suisse) ce dimanche 22 décembre 2019 sur la base de White Sands dans le Nouveau-Mexique (sur le polygone d’essais de missile de White Sands), une minute après l’horaire prévu.

22 déc. 20194 min de lecture