Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, which faced issues reaching the Moon, is coming back to Earth in a carefully planned descent over the South Pacific Ocean, carrying various payloads.
SLIM will begin the landing descent on Friday (January 20) at around 0:00 JST (8:30 PM IST). The lunar landing is scheduled at 0:20 JST. Japan will become just the fifth country to soft-land on the Moon successfully, after Russia, the US, China and India.
NASA's X-59 represents a significant leap forward in supersonic travel technology, with its innovative design aimed at minimizing noise disruptions.
Artemis IV, the first mission to the Gateway lunar space station, remains on track for 2028. The first mission, Artemis II, was supposed to take place later this year but has been delayed now.
The Peregrine lander will study the Moon's surface environment ahead of human missions planned for later this decade. It was launched via the Vulcan Centaur rocket at Cape Canaveral and will attempt a soft lunar landing at the "Bay of Stickiness".
The payloads will also provide data to NASA’s Lunar-VISE (Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer) instrument suite, slated to land on the Gruithuisen Domes in 2026.
Despite the visual impression that the three galaxies on the right cluster are closely together, a closer look reveals a deceptive perspective. The LEDA galaxies, though appearing atop NGC 1356, are millions of light-years apart, their apparent proximity attributed to the observer's vantage point.
The Aditya-L1 was launched into low Earth orbit (LEO) on September 2, 2023, by the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-XL (PSLV-XL) variant. It reached its Halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1) on Saturday evening.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully injected its first-ever Sun mission into its final orbit.
India's first solar observatory, Aditya L1, has successfully reached its destination at halo orbit. It carries seven payloads to help scientists uncover the secrets of the Sun. The live updates on the ISRO Aditya L1 mission are available now.
Aditya-L1: The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57) launched the Aditya-L1 spacecraft from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota, on September 2, 2023.
According to S Somanath, the chief of ISRO, "Aditya-L1 will reach its L1 point on January 6th at 4 pm, and we will perform the final manoeuvre to keep it there."
ISRO successfully tested fuel cells in space, a breakthrough for future missions, as these cells efficiently generate power, emit only water, and prove ideal for space exploration and potential societal applications.
ISRO's Aditya L1 mission was prepared to study the Sun and is all set to create history. On January 6, at around 4 pm, the Aditya L1 satellite will be established at Lagrange 1 point after travelling 15 lakh kilometres from the Earth.
GSAT-20, a satellite which weighs 4700 kg, has been equipped with Ka-Ka band high throughput capacity with 32 beams, offering Pan-India coverage- which includes remote and unconnected regions like Jammu & Kashmir, Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands.
It has been stated that astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to identify 500 or so previously unseen spots in the Orion Nebula in October 2023.
ISRO chief S Somanath says, "It's a unique mission as X-ray Polarimetry is a unique scientific capability we have developed internally building instruments. We want to create 100 scientists who can understand this aspect and then contribute to the knowledge of black holes to the world."
The spacecraft has been designed for the comprehensive study of the Sun, and it was launched on September 2 (2023), via the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C57).
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans for the spacecraft to enter a halo orbit around L1, approximately 1.5 million km from the Earth, and focus on the Sun. Here are the key details about the mission and its objectives.
As per the reports, the new mission comes with a mark of the first dedicated polarimetry mission and the world's second, after following NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) which was launched in 2021.
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