China lands on Mars in latest advance for its space program
May 15, 2021 7:12 ISTChina has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space programme.
China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space programme.
With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.
Researchers have found that the salad crop, red romaine lettuce, grown on board the International Space Station (ISS), is as nutritious as counterparts grown on the Earth, an advance that may help astronauts grow safe, fresh food during space missions.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday took to Twitter to announce that the final test of the Orion spacecraft’s attitude control motor (ACM) has been successful. NASA revealed that when the astronauts blast off for their voyage to the Moon on the Orion spacecraft during Artemis missions, they will have protection in the form of the launch abort system (LAS).
According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the countdown for the launch of PSLV-XL rocket carrying India's Cartosat-3 and 13 nanosatellites from the US began at 7.28 a.m. The rocket is scheduled to blast off from the second launch pad at 9.28 a.m. on Wednesday.
One among them is Susmita Mohanty AKA the 'space woman'. She is a space entrepreneur who started India's first space start-up. Mohanty started her career at an early age, is the daughter of a former ISRO scientist, Nilamani Mohanty.
More than a dozen companies have asked U.S. regulators for permission to operate constellations of satellites that provide internet service. Not all are aimed at connecting consumers, but some have grand and global ambitions.
The Saturday announcement was made at the NASA Headquarters here during the signing of a joint statement by US space agency's Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard and Head of the Australian Space Agency, Megan Clark.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported Thursday that NASA's major projects are more than 27 percent over baseline costs and the average launch delay is 13 months. That's the largest schedule delay since the GAO began assessing NASA's major projects 10 years ago.
The satellite is one of the world's first attempts to tackle the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting the Earth.
One of the remote cameras melted in a fire sparked by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday but it still managed to snap photos of the liftoff, Space.com reported.
Greece launched its first space agency on Monday as an effort to rebuild the ailing economy as it exits a severe eight-year debt crisis.
In Chandrayan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, ISRO is planning to rover to explore the lunar surface.
A 9-year-old kid sent a job application for the post of Planetary Protection Officer, after the space agency announced the opening for the position recently
US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may run space suit short for future deep-space missions, media reported citing the space agency's auditor report.
India’s first lunar probe, the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, which had gone missing after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with it on August 29, 2009, has been found orbiting the Moon by US space
US space agency NASA is considering to assess the feasibility of sending humans to space with the first flight of the Space Launch System rocket as it aims to orbit the Moon. NASA is building
After a last-minute rocket trouble forced SpaceX to abort its planned Dragon cargo launch, US space transport services company, SpaceX is taking another shot at launching a rocket from NASA's historic moon pad. As dawn
US space agency NASA’s Spitzer space telescope has detected unusual heartbeat-like pulsations in the outer shells of a star called HAT-P-2. A closely orbiting planet, called HAT-P-2b, might be causing these vibrations each time it
Russia's space agency on Thursday said it lost contact with an unmanned cargo ship shortly after it blasted off for the International Space Station. “Communication was lost today 383 seconds after the launch of the
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