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Russia Landed Venera 12 on Venus on December 21, 1978 and Venera 11 on December 25. Both Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and Roughly 90 Atmospheres of Pressure. Neither Returned a Single Photograph, Because the Lens Caps Failed to Eject on Both.
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (295+ words) Venera 11 and Venera 12 were sent as a pair for redundancy. They shared the same mechanism, so launching two spacecraft simply reproduced the same failure twice....
Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle That Flew Once
1+ week, 3+ day ago (366+ words) by Max Grünwald | 23 luglio 2026 | Mondo dell'aviazione, Storia e leggende | 0 comments On 15 November 1988, a spacecraft that looked almost exactly like the American Space Shuttle rose from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a pillar of flame, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself…...
The Asteroid Birds and the Clay Pigeon Shooting Range
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (47+ words) — English Version — The Asteroid Birds and the Clay Pigeon Shooting Range Summary phrase by GPT-5.6 Sol While competing for dominance over the artificial, man may shoot down the heralds of the …...
The Soviet Union Soft-Landed 8 Venera Spacecraft on the Surface of Venus Between 1970 and 1982, in 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth's Atmospheric Pressure. The United States Has Never Landed on Venus Once.
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (479+ words) America won the Moon, owns Mars, and has flown past everything else. On Venus it finished a distant second to a country that stopped existing in 1991....
On 5 September 1977 Voyager 1 left Cape Canaveral at 721.9 kg; as of 21 August 2024 it was 164.7 AU from Earth, moving about 38,027 mph relative to the Sun and still returning data
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (177+ words) Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues whispering back from the edge of the solar system, defying every expectation of how long a machine can survive in the void....
On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 Lander Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth's Atmospheric Pressure to Reach the Surface of Venus. Its Soil Instrument Deployed Exactly as Designed and Measured the Camera Lens Cap the Spacecraft Had Just Ejected.
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (393+ words) Nothing malfunctioned on Venera 14 when it landed on Venus. The camera worked, the pyrotechnic ejection worked, the soil probe worked. That is precisely how the experiment was lost....
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
USA, the stars and astronomy??? from the revolution to beyond the Civil War, how America's history is intertwined with the Universe
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (585+ words) The Star-Spangled Republic argues America's history can be told through the story of its astronomy Why does the American flag contain stars? Why do we call actors and sportspeople ‘stars’? Eran Shalev argues the answers lie in what he calls…...
Sources including French public officials detail how Mistral's rise over the past three years owes much to the privileged relationship it built with Macron
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (12+ words) Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web....
Seeing the Past Through Multispectral Imaging
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (392+ words) When digging for artifacts of past cultures, archaeologists need to determine if the dark soil they are looking at is from the same layer they have been working in or is the start of a new layer of “dirt,” as…...