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A significant milestone in suborbital spaceflight was achieved by Blue Origin with the launch of its uncrewed NS-29 mission. The New Shepard rocket lifted off from the company’s West Texas facility on February 4 at 11 a.m. EST, following a week-long delay caused by adverse weather conditions and a technical issue in the rocket’s avionics…
A newly detected asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has been observed by NASA scientists, carrying a 1.2 percent probability of colliding with Earth on December 22, 2032. The asteroid, estimated to be around 55 metres in diameter, has been tracked since its discovery on December 27, 2024, through the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. While the…
Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav on Wednesday congratulated the Isro on its successful 100th mission, and said it will play an important role in strengthening the country’s navigational capabilities. The Indian space research organisation (Isro) on Wednesday celebrated its 100th mission with the textbook launch of a navigation…
New Delhi: The US-India NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar or NISAR mission will observe the Earth down to the centimetre, monitoring its land and ice surfaces, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Scientist Paul Rosen said. The agreement was inked on 2014 to track changes in wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters through the…
Elon Musk is prone to tweeting out artistic renderings of the rockets and spacecraft he intends to build, offering his followers a glimpse of the future he imagines for humanity on other planets. So when he recently posted a photo of a launchpad walkway leading out to his rocket and spacecraft, Musk felt compelled to…
A major milestone in spaceflight was reached by SpaceX on Wednesday (November 27) with the successful launch of 24 Starlink satellites aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, conducted from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, began at 11:41 pm EST (10:11 am IST, November 28) and marked the Falcon 9’s 400th successful mission since its…
Last Updated:January 02, 2025, 17:13 IST Sunita Williams, a veteran astronaut, was supposed to be on the ISS for only eight days as part of a mission aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The sight of 16 sunrises and sunsets from the ISS serves as a stunning reminder of the unique vantage point astronauts have in…
Kenya Space Agency (KSA) has confirmed that fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, weighing nearly 500 kg, crashed into a village in the country’s north on Monday (Dec 30). The space agency, working alongside the local authorities had secured the area and retrieved the debris for further analysis, as per a CBS…
NASA has unveiled the successor of its highly successful Ingenuity helicopter that roamed over the surface of Mars for over three years after landing there alongside the Perseverance Rover in 2020. A computer rendering, produced in collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California and the Ames Research Center, shows a drone-like vehicle…
New Delhi: Astronaut Sunita Williams, currently in space, will see 16 sunrises and sunsets on New Year as the International Space Station, where she is located, keeps on the move. A post on X today from the space station handle read: “As 2024 comes to a close today, the Exp 72 crew will see 16…
