Science
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South Korean lunar orbiter to undergo critical trajectory manoeuvre
Seoul: South Korea’s unmanned space vehicle Danuri was scheduled to undergo a critical trajectory manoeuvre on Friday to travel toward the moon for the country’s first lunar mission, officials said. Danuri, also…
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NASA captures 1st direct image of exoplanet outside our solar system
New York: For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet called ‘HIP 65426 b’…
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NASA aims Sep 3 as next Artemis Moon mission launch attempt
Washington: The US space agency will now target September 3 as the new launch date for the Artemis I Moon mission that was scrubbed last Monday owing to technical glitch with one…
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NASA engineers assess data after Artemis Moon mission scrub
Washington: NASA engineers were evaluating data gathered during the Artemis I launch attempt, which was scrubbed owing to a technical glitch in one of the rocket engines. The space agency said that…
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NASA scrubs uncrewed Artemis I, puts Moon mission on unplanned hold
New Delhi: The US space agency on Monday scrubbed the uncrewed Space Launch System (SLS) Moon mission called Artemis I owing to a technical engine glitch. NASA said in a tweet that…
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SpaceX launches 54 Starlink satellites, lands rocket at sea
San Francisco: Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has launched 54 more of its Starlink broadband satellites in orbit and landed a rocket on a ship at sea on Saturday night. According to space.com, a…
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NASA gears up to send megarocket in deep space on Aug 29
Washington: The US space agency is geared up to send its debut Space Launch System (SLS) mission called Artemis I into deep space on Monday that will perform a long orbit around…
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NASA detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere in 1st clear evidence
Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first-ever clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. The finding, to be published in the…
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Indian start-up on mission to compile data on space debris
Bengaluru: Digantara, a start-up launched by three young engineers, Rahul Rawat, Tanveer Ahmed, and Anirudh Sharma, is on a mission to compile data on space debris. It is going to send 40…
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NASA gives nod for uncrewed Moon mission launch on Aug 29
New York: The US space agency has given a go-ahead for August 29 for the first uncrewed flight of Artemis I on its mission beyond the Moon and return to Earth. The…
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NASA spots 13 regions on Moon for astronaut landing in 2024
Washington: The US space agency has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, as it prepares to send humans back to the Moon under the Artemis programme in 2024.…
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NASA asks students to design metal production pipeline on the Moon
Washington: The US space agency has asked university students to design a metal production pipeline on the Moon — from extracting metal from lunar minerals to creating structures and tools. The ability…
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NASA’s InSight mission finds Martian equator is dry
New York: Martian equator contains little or no ice, according to a new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, describes…
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Potentially hazardous giant asteroid to zoom past Earth on Friday
Washington: A “potentially hazardous” giant asteroid is likely to come within about 4.3 million km of Earth on Friday, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2015 FF, has an estimated diameter between…
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Questions raised on failure of ISRO’s new rocket
Sriharikota: The placing of two satellites in a wrong orbit, resulting in their total loss, by the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) brand new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) on Sunday…
