NASA to launch car-size spacecraft to study Sun
Science | July 23, 2018 7:57 ISTThe car-sized spacecraft called Parker Solar Probe is slated to lift off no earlier than August 6, on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy.
The car-sized spacecraft called Parker Solar Probe is slated to lift off no earlier than August 6, on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy.
The solar and battery-powered lander is designed to operate for 26 Earth months, or one year on Mars, a period in which it is expected to pick up as many as 100 quakes.
After analysing the spacecraft’s final transmission, scientists uncovered one more image – a blurred photo captured a few feet away from the comet’s surface
NASA received a final signal from its Cassini spacecraft on Friday, whose 13-year-old unparalleled journey came to an end with a meteor-link plunge into the Saturn’s crushing atmosphere
Using newly-calibrated data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have created the first global map of water in the Moon's soil
Taking another step towards its goal of establishing a permanently manned space station by 2022, a Chinese rocket on Thursday successfully sent the country's first cargo spacecraft, Tianzhou-1.
China on Tuesday has released a list of eight names for the country's first Mars spacecraft, which is scheduled to be launched by 2020, the media reported. The names -- "Fenghuang" (phoenix), "Tianwen" (questions for
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is building a robotic spacecraft which will be outfitted with the latest tools and technologies to repair or refuel satellites currently in orbit. NASA has awarded a $127
The U.S space agency NASA has said that it will establish a new virtual institute to advance the field of small spacecraft systems. NASA scientists selected the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, to
The two Chinese astronauts who set off aboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft as part of the Communist country’s longest ever manned space mission have successfully entered the orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab. The move spells
After the discovery of layers of interesting fogs a year ago, the New Horizons spacecraft has now claimed to have identified some hints of clouds on Pluto. "We're excited about the exploration ahead for New
China launched a pair of astronauts into space Monday on a mission to dock with an experimental space station and remain aboard for 30 days in preparation for the start of operations by a full-bore
China is ready for its longest-ever manned space mission with a spacecraft carrying two astronauts set to lift off tomorrow to dock with an experimental lab for a month-long stay under the Communist giant's ambitious
A private firm owned by an Indian-American and licensed to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon is planning to take human remains to the Earth’s surface at Rs 20 crore per kilogram.
NASA scientists are all set to bring samples from the asteroid bennu and for this they are launching a spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx on September 8. As per reports, scientists at NASA are working along
The Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a US firm, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017. The US private company revealed that this breakthrough US
An asteroid that will pass by the earth, as it does every six years, has scientists deeply worried. So much so, that NASA has said that they are sending a probe team to the asteroid's
Forty seven years ago, the Apollo 11 spacecraft took Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon thereby creating history. The only part of the spacecraft that came back to earth was
NASA celebrated a key triumph on Tuesday as its Rs 7,400 crore unnamed Juno spacecraft entered the orbit around Jupiter after a five-year voyage in order to explore the giant planet.
Washington: NASA's Dawn spacecraft has shown the brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres that are gleaming with mystery.The closest-yet view of Occator crater, with a resolution of 450 feet per pixel, on its surface
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