Alan Bean, the fourth man on the moon, dies at 86
The fourth person to walk on the lunar surface died in Houston at the age of 86. Alan Bean was a part of Apollo 12 mission, the second to land on the lunar surface that made him the fourth person along with Charles Pete Conrad to walk on the lunar surface. According to the family, […]
China’s Queqiao relay satellite brakes near the Moon; It will enter the halo orbit soon
Launched on Monday, China’s relay satellite has finally reached near the moon and has successfully entered into a series of transitions before it is positioned at the desired orbit. According to the official statement released by the China National Space Administration, Queqiao – China’s relay satellite, braked near the moon and now, it will follow […]
Kenorland, the first supercontinent was formed 2.4 billion years ago and this is how all the changes took place
Earth was primitively a giant ball of water with the huge amount of methane in its atmosphere. But 2.4 billion years ago, things began to change as the first landmass rose from the depths of the ocean, according to a study made by researchers at the University of Oregon. The study stated that the changes […]
Curiosity dugs a 2-inch-deep hole with its new drilling technique
In the last quarter of 2016, the drill installed at the end of the robotic arm of the Curiosity rover was sidelined because its motor controlling the sideposts stopped working. Soon, engineers at the mission control started troubleshooting the issue and devising workarounds to get the drill up and running which took more than a […]
Birds and ferns were likely the survivors after major a catastrophic event happened 66-million years ago
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid came hurtling down the Earth’s atmosphere causing mass destruction with a force millions of times greater than an atomic bomb. It was the Cretaceous-Paleogene period when the fifth mass extinction event as it is said, occurred wiping out three-quarters of all animal and plant life on Earth including […]
The latest SpaceX launch was different in many ways: Fairings, first stage boosters & Block 4 rocket
Less than two weeks after its last rocket launch, SpaceX successfully launched seven satellites in the space on May 22 and the deployment of all the seven satellites took place within an hour and a half post-launch. The latest SpaceX rocket launch was different from its previous launches in many ways. First of all, it […]
Asteroid KW1 2018 will make its closest approach today at midday
Yet another asteroid will be barrelling near the Earth’s orbit today at midday when the distance between the Earth and this asteroid is the closest. As per NASA, the asteroid named as KW1 2018 is expected to make its closest approach towards the Earth today on May 24, 2018, at midday when the average distance […]
GOES-17 satellite detects lightning strikes in the midwestern United States
It has been two months since the GOES-17 satellite was launched on March 01, 2018. The satellite is presently under its six months checkout period. On May 9, it sent the ‘first-light’ image captured by its Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM). According to the official statement, GLM mounted on GOES-17 satellite monitored lightning strikes and its […]
NOAA’s latest weather satellite is suffering from a cooling problem
On Wednesday, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released an official statement regarding the GOES-17 weather satellite that was launched two months ago. In the statement, the agency stated about a cooling problem that could endanger the capability of the satellite in the orbit. GOES-17, a new generation of a weather satellite, was […]