The Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) -- the second uncrewed flight for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency's Commercial Crew Programme -- has been held up since late last year.
The images show Venus approaching from the left while the Sun is off-camera to the upper right.
"The double flyby also offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the Venus environment from different locations at same time and, moreover, in locations that are not typically visited by a dedicated planetary orbiter," the ESA said.
In preparation for the real-life challenges of future missions to Mars, NASA will study how highly motivated individuals respond under the rigour of a long-duration, ground-based simulation.
The American space agency in a statement said that data sent to Earth by NASA's Perseverance rover after its 1st attempt to "collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during the initial sampling activity".
Developers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, call the mission "MaGIXS" -- Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer.
OFT-2 is the second uncrewed flight for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency's Commercial Crew Programme. The mission is targeted to launch at 1.20 p.m. EDT on August 3, NASA said in a statement.
Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics had filed a protest with the US GAO against NASA for awarding a $2.9 billion contracts to SpaceX for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024.
Flight controllers regained control using thrusters on other Russian components at the station to right the ship, and it is now stable and safe, NASA said.
Taking to Instagram, NASA shared an image of Tokyo, where Olympic games are being held, showing the city glowing bright with the magic of the Olympics. The image was captured by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough.
The burst detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on August 26, 2020, turned out to be one for the record books -- the shortest Gamma-ray burst (GRB) caused by the death of a massive star.
This water vapour forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas.
Amid protests from Bezos-owned Blue Origin, the US space agency in May suspended work on the $2.9 billion lunar lander contract given to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX.
The Atmospheric Imagery Assembly, or AIA, is one of two imaging instruments on SDO and looks constantly at the Sun, taking images across 10 wavelengths of ultraviolet light every 12 seconds.
Like Earth, Mars heated up as it formed from the dust and larger clumps of meteoritic material orbiting the Sun that helped to shape our early solar system.
Europa Clipper will conduct a detailed survey of Europa and use a sophisticated suite of science instruments to investigate whether the icy moon has conditions suitable for life.
The new snapshots, from a programme led by Julianne Dalcanton of the University of Washington in Seattle, feature a galaxy with unusual extended spiral arms and the first high-resolution glimpse at an intriguing pair of colliding galaxies.
The mission milestone to collect the first sample of Martian Rock will take off in the next two weeks.
In March this year, the largest asteroid passed through Earth at a speed 124,000 kph.
Late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was set to appear as an astronaut for a movie titled 'Chanda Mama Door Ke,' visited NASA while preparing for the role. The actor got himself trained for the astronaut act in the film.
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