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A small asteroid disintegrated into a fireball over South Africa
A small and least likely to harm asteroid recently disintegrated over the regions of Africa and extending to Papua New Guinea, just hours after it was discovered. The object that was previously listed as ZLAF9B2 was a 6-feet diameter cosmic boulder first captured by Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona. The object now named as asteroid […]
NASA’ Dawn spacecraft to study dwarf planet Ceres up-closely in its new orbit
Engineers operating the NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have initiated maneuvers that will bring the satellite to the lowest and final orbit over the planet Ceres. The final destination orbit is expected to be at an altitude of 30 miles above the planet’s surface which is ten times closer than the previous orbit that Dawn has been […]
Mars CubeSats performs course correction maneuver successfully
Spacecraft and satellites are bulky and large in size and of course, expensive. On the contrary, CubeSats are a small, lightweight and inexpensive piece of hardware that can perform any specific function in the space as programmed. According to the reports published pertaining to NASA’s recent Mars launch, the two CubeSats sent into space towards […]
Today, three astronauts will return from the ISS
At Early Sunday on June 03, three astronauts who have spent almost five and a half month on the International Space Station (ISS) will finally head towards the Earth. The boarding procedure will start at 1:30 a.m. EDT (0530GMT) on the Soyuz spacecraft. Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, JAXA’s Norishige Kanai, and NASA’s astronaut Scott Tingle […]
SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on Friday at 02:57 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX will launch its Falcon 9 rocket on an SES-12 mission carrying the largest satellite in the world on Friday, June 01. Luxembourg-based SES became the first customer of SpaceX about fourteen months ago to carry out the launch of a satellite aboard an already used rocket by SpaceX. According to Martin Halliwell – chief […]
China will launch its own space station starting as soon as 2020; China has invited UN members nations for contribution
China’s space agency is working in full swing to develop and send parts of China’s space station which is expected to become fully operational by 2022. Chinese space agency has sent invitations to all UN member states thereby inviting nations to conduct experiments and research on the space station as per the part of China’s […]
Students send seeds of broccoli to the ISS to figure out a way to grow plants in space
Scientists are trying to find out whether astronauts could grow plants in space at the International Space Station (ISS) in its extremely low gravity and they have been successful in many attempts. Recently, researchers packed a batch of six broccoli seeds onboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft that was launched this week from the Wallops […]
Queqiao will execute transition to EML2; Longjiang-1 & 2 microsatellites might be lost
On May 20, the Long March 4C rocket was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China carrying Queqiao, a relay communication satellite and two microsatellites called DSLWP-A & B, also known as Longjiang-1 and Longjiang-2. All the satellites aboard the Long March 4C rocket were programmed to follow standard trajectory correction maneuver en route […]
‘Golden Records’ sent on Voyager missions might be confusing for aliens
NASA launched two Voyager spacecraft into the deep cosmos of the space back in 1977. It has been more than four decades for these excellent pieces of craftsmanship post-launch and these are still working and moving further into space at an astounding velocity of over 50,000 km/h. Both of these spacecraft have ‘Golden Records’ embedded […]