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NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars begins steep climb to rim of a crater
NEW YORK: NASA’s Perseverance rover is tackling a steep new challenge on Mars.
The six-wheeled rover has spent the last 3 1/2 years roaming around the bottom of a crater. On Tuesday, it began climbing to the top.
The rover will go up…
NASA decides to keep two astronauts in space until February
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they'll have to wait until next year for a ride home with SpaceX. What should have been a weeklong test flight…
‘India to ensure debris-free space missions by 2030’ – President Murmu
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday voiced concern over increasing space debris as a result of numerous satellites being placed in orbit and lauded ISRO for setting itself a target to make future space missions debris-free by…
ISRO to transfer small satellite launch vehicle tech to private industries
SRIHARIKOTA: With the successful launch of the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-08) by the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV)-D3 on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now ready to transition the SSLV into commercial…
ISRO’s final developmental flight lifts off from Sriharikota spaceport
Final developmental flight aims to advance microsatellite technology and payload instruments for Earth observation and remote sensing
Mars and Jupiter get chummy in night sky—they won’t get this close again until 2033
The best views will be in the eastern sky, towards the constellation Taurus, before daybreak. Known as planetary conjunctions, these comic pairings happen only every three years or so.
ISRO signs agreement with Axiom Space for ISS mission
BENGALURU: ISRO on Friday said its Human Space Flight Centre has entered into a space flight agreement with Axiom Space Inc, USA for its Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
A National Mission Assignment Board has…
Astronauts confident Boeing space capsule can safely return them to Earth, despite failures
In their first news conference from orbit, the pair said they expect to return once thruster testing is complete here on Earth.
ISRO eyes close look at potential earth-impacting asteroid Apophis
ISRO eyes close look at potential earth-impacting asteroid Apophis
SpaceX bags $843 million NASA contract to de-orbit ISS in 2030
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a $843 million NASA contract to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station (ISS) in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in…
SpaceX’s Starship gets US FAA nod, to launch 4th test flight on Thursday
New Delhi; Billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX has received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to launch the fourth test flight of the Starship vehicle.
With the licence issued on Tuesday, the 400-foot-tall Starship…
Boeing’s first astronaut flight called off at the last minute in latest setback
Two NASA astronauts were strapped in the company’s Starliner capsule when the countdown automatically was halted at 3 minutes and 50 seconds by the computer system that controls the final minutes before liftoff.
Australia’s 2 rocket test failures hamper country’s space ambition
Canberra: Australia failed two rocket tests last week, delaying the country's plans to become a sovereign space power, Australian media reported on Wednesday.
South Australian company ATSpace and private launch facilitator Southern Launch…
Iran to launch 2 homegrown Nahid satellites early in 2023
Tehran: Iran will put into orbit at least two domestically-produced satellites, Nahid-1 and Nahid-2, by the spring of 2023, Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Issa Zarepour said on Sunday.
"By the end of…
NASA launches new mission to survey Earth’s water
Los Angeles: The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the newest Earth science satellite to track nearly all the water on Earth surface.
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop…
China launches new remote sensing satellite
Xichang: China has sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
The satellite, Yaogan-36, was launched by a Long March-2D carrier rocket at 2:25 am…
World’s biggest telescope to be ready by 2028
London: One of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century began its construction phase on Monday.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be the largest radio telescope in the world when completed in 2028, BBC reported.
Split across…
No more Dreaming of the moon? Go, have a Home there!
London: People could be living on the moon by the end of the decade, a top NASA official has said.
The claim by Howard Hu followed the successful launch this week of the Artemis rocket after several failed attempts, the Sun reported.
The…
Sriharikota: OneWeb mission with 36 GSLV-satellites takes off from SHAR Range
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): In a historic mission GSLV-MkIII, India's heaviest rocket, redesignated as LVM3-M2--carrying 36 satellites of UK's OneWeb, took off majestically from the SHAR Range, at 12.07 a.m.
After a smooth 24-hour…
‘NASA ready to take whatever Universe throws at us’
Washington: American space agency NASA says its recent attempt to deflect the path of an asteroid was successful, after its Dart probe struck an asteroid head-on.
Scientists have now confirmed the orbit of a 160m-wide space rock known as…