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India launches first sun-focused space mission after historic moon landing

Posted on September 2, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

Building on a month of historic achievements for the nation’s civil space programmes, India launched its first spacecraft intended for studying the sun. Aditya-L1 was the name of the spacecraft, which was launched from Sriharikota, an island in the Bay…

Russia approves to stay on board the International Space Station until 2028

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

After all, Russia’s withdrawal from the ISS program is not as imminent as previously thought. Russian space officials announced last year, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, that the country would leave the ISS partnership sometime after 2024 to concentrate on…

Watch 6th mission of SpaceX’s robust Falcon Heavy rocket launch

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

You can watch the action live as SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket launches for the sixth time ever on Thursday (April 27). At 7:29 p.m. EDT (2329 GMT), the Falcon Heavy, carrying two satellites toward a far-off geostationary orbit, is…

NASA mission finds the first seismic waves passing through Mars’s core

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

NASA’s InSight lander has been collecting soundwaves from quakes and meteorite impacts on Mars over the past four years that have contributed to the discovery of Martian secrets. During these occasions, Understanding identified interestingly seismic waves going through the Martian…

SpaceX starts launching second-generation Starlink satellites, which have four times the network capacity

Posted on March 1, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, has upgraded and expanded its orbiting network by launching the first batch of its next-generation Starlink internet satellites. On Monday, 21 of the so-called “V2 Mini” satellites were launched into orbit by a Falcon 9…

NASA and SpaceX postpone Crew-6 astronaut launch till February 27

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Priyanka Patil |

The launch of SpaceX’s next astronaut mission will take an additional day. Crew-6, a four-person mission to the International Space Station (ISS), was scheduled to launch early Sunday morning (Feb. 26) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. However, NASA…

SpaceX gets consent to convey 7,500 next-generation Starlink satellites

Posted on December 3, 2022 by Priyanka Patil |

SpaceX recently obtained permission to begin developing the subsequent Starlink internet megaconstellation. SpaceX received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday (December 1) to launch 7,500 Starlink 2.0 satellites into low-Earth orbit. FCC officials wrote, “Our action will…

Crew Dragon successfully launch, carrying the first Russian from US land in 20 years

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Priyanka Patil |

In 2002, the space shuttle Endeavour launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center four days before Thanksgiving. One Russian cosmonaut, Nikolai M. Budarin, who was conducting his third space journey, was one of the seven crew members travelling to the International…

NASA postpones the launch of Artemis I on Tuesday while delaying the rollback decision

Posted on September 26, 2022 by Priyanka Patil |

NASA finally decided Saturday to postpone its plan to launch its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday due to the impending threat of what is expected to be Hurricane Ian. Managers said on Sunday…

‘Baby’ island forms in Pacific Ocean following eruption of undersea volcano

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Priyanka Patil |

A newborn island, that is, was welcomed into the world by the Central Tonga Islands. In the southwest Pacific Ocean, where there are many underwater volcanoes, the new infant island first appeared. The NASA Earth Observatory reported that on September…