Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, claim to have found important clues to understand the death of massive stars and have also revealed the problems with the existing models. The research in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany, and Northwestern University, USA, has also been published in international journal Physical […]
NASA recently made it public that its one-ton rover “Perseverance” is scheduled to land on Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover will be sent to a crater named Jezero to find traces of life there. However, to conduct the research, the rover first needs to attain a soft landing. The sequence of procedures for […]
A new Chinese carrier rocket made its maiden flight on 22nd December under the long-term place, very much like SpaceX, to come up with reusable launch vehicles. The whole idea behind reusing launch vehicles mainly centers around the fact that it reduces mission costs by a lot, and it also directly pertains to speeding up […]
ULA’s chief executive has confirmed that ULA will receive two new rocket engines by next summer from Blue Origin, a giant company by the famous Jeff Bezos. Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin Corp have joined hands for a joint rocket venture under the name ULA or the United Launch Alliance and is said to be […]
SpaceX was supposed to launch the last satellite of this year on Thursday with the launch of Falcon 9, but that happened to get delayed due to a pressure issue in the rocket’s oxygen tank. At the 1 minute 45 second mark of the 9:45 a.m. EST launch, SpaceX stopped the countdown, and released a […]
This December 17th, ISRO is about to launch PSLV-C50, the 52nd mission of PSLV from Sriharikota, near Chennai. The rocket is supposed to carry a communication satellite named CMS-01 and is scheduled around 03:41 p.m., although it is entirely subject to weather conditions. Speaking on this, ISRO chairman K.Sivan commented, …we have started this mission [PSLV-C49/EOS-01] after COVID pandemic. Now […]
In the early hours of 10th December, China successfully launches the Gravitational Wave Storm High-Energy Electromagnetic Correspondence All-Sky Monitor satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center using the Long March 11 Yaoji solid carrier rocket. The chief scientist of the Extreme Eye at the Institute of High Energy Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, […]
The routine resupply mission undertaken by SpaceX will complete its 21st commercial journey to the International Space Station on Saturday. The cargo, which is meant for the dozens of science and research investigations of NASA, will hike a ride on the upgraded Dragon spacecraft. It will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex […]
Yesterday night, around 9:15 AM. SpaceX launched its 16th batch of Starlink Satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 40 in Florida. This began as an attempt to provide internet in any part of the world, even at the remotest of all areas utilizing numerous networks of satellites. This idea was prompted by […]
Sweden is getting onboard India’s Venus orbiter mission ‘Shukrayaan’ with a scientific instrument to explore the planet. Ambassador of Sweden to India, Klas Molin said the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is engaged in the venture, its second collaborative project with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). “IRF’s satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer (VNA) […]
Giant flash floods once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around four billion years ago, according to a study which hints at the possibility that life may have existed on the Red Planet. The research, published recently in the journal Scientific Reports, assessed data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover — launched in November 2011 […]
