Astra’s Rocket 3.1 was launched into the sky above Alaska’s Pacific Spaceport Complex during the company’s first orbital launch attempt on the 11th of September, 2020. It ended during the first-stage engine burn. The flight ended during the first-stage engine burn and Astra’s first orbital mission got off the ground, and sooner it got down […]
Almost nine years back America was basking in the glory of witnessing the historic landing of Atlantis on July 21 for the final time at 5 a.m. in the morning near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Set out on July 8, Atlantis had been the final flight for Space Shuttle Programme, on the STS-135 mission. The […]
Airbus announced its revolutionary achievement on 17 April 2020. Airbus has successfully conducted a first-ever fully automatic air-to-air aircraft refuelling (A3R) operation with a boom system. The test involved an Airbus tanker test aircraft acting as the fuel provider. The tanker aircraft is equipped with the Airbus A3R solution. An F16 fighter aircraft belonging to […]
Space is always a wonder. Space scientists send satellites, telescope to find find the answer to our universe. The human race in enormously trying to explore the outer space and mysteries behind us, both by sending unmanned probes and physically traveling beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. In all these explorations some amazing pictures have been captured […]
Recently, many space agencies across the world have planned interplanetary missions and ISRO being one of them. After ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission, the Indian space agency is keener to explore the universe From exploring the Sun to stepping on Venus, ISRO plans to do it all. The Indian national government is hoping they’ll get approval to […]
China is aiming at tapping the growth potential of domestic and global commercial space launches. Now China has made preparations to present a challenge to India. According to a Times of India report, China has recently revealed a satellite rocket named ‘Smart Dragon’. China unveiled its new generation of commercial carrier rockets that could carry […]
Scientists for the first time have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of Super-Earth K2-18b habitable planet which is beyond our solar system. Such a discovery has raised hopes that the planet might be within the habitable zone, thus supporting the possibility that it could support alien life. It is suspected that the temperature is […]
China is trying to keep up to the space success so far celebrated by other nations, such as US or India, and to do so the Chinese startup LinkSpace completed its third test of a reusable rocket in the past five months. According to the company’s CEO Hu Zhenyu, the rocket RLV-T5 took off in […]
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity is all set for entering into the next test of testing at the end of which, hopefully, and eventually, the spaceship will reach space for the first time. But before reaching space, it will be tested for airspeed, loads and thermal heating. Virgin Galactic is the world’s first commercial spaceline […]
NASA in a recent update has stated that the US space agency is all set to launch a rocket to probe the Sun’s nanoflare using X-ray vision. Nanoflares are the tiny and highly intense eruptions that take place across the sun’s surface. These eruptions have resulted when the magnetic field lines of the sun’s atmosphere […]
The scientists using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered thick deposits of ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars, courtesy of erosion wearing away surface rock on the planet. The ice layers are believed to be extended hundreds of feet deep. This discovery could reveal sensational new details about our neighbor planet. The study authors explained […]
