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Unsuccessful December-Launch Attempt Grounded Russian Proton-M Rocket for another 3.5 Months
Russia’s most reliable and time-honored Proton-M rocket – a heavy lift vehicle that has been used to inject military and civilian satellites since last 16 years will remain suspended for extra three and a half months, confirmed Dmitry Rogozin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia. In a press meet, the Russian PM said Saturday, due […]
NASA Marks 50 Years Anniversary of Apollo-1 Tragedy and Pays Tribute to Three Fallen Astronauts
On 50 years completion of NASA’s disastrous Apollo-1 mission, the US-based space agency, for the first-time has arranged a tribute exhibit for the fallen astronaut heroes of the spacecraft. The ambitious Apollo mission of NASA lost its successful track after the black-day of 27th January 1976, when the three astronauts burned up in a flash […]
Paleoclimatologists Define How Indus Valley Civilization Scraped By Climate Change
The Indus Valley Civilization, like the current era, also suffered from a harsh period of climate change, revealed the scientists in their new study. As mentioned in the new report, Indus Valley Civilization, also known as Bronze Age civilization – flourished in the northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India also faced the harsh impacts […]
NASA to Use New ‘Pressure-Sensitive’ Pink Paints to Boost up Its Rocket Efficiency
Instances of spaceflight-related accidents resulting in casualty or near-fatality during flight testing and launching are quite long. As sending out rockets to space is a matter high expense, breakdown of such missions is really tear-jerking. However, in order to avoid such instances in the near future, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has invented a […]
Space Timeline of February: Notes on Not-To-Miss Sights of February’s Night Skies
The second month of 2017 is around the corner and only after few hours, the clock will strike at February. The month of January was quite successful for space missions and sky grazers and the approaching month also has some exclusive sights for the space enthusiasts. However, before the month ends, nature has some precious […]
NASA Develops Reconfigurable Superior-Bandwidth Radio for Tracking Airplane in Real-Time
Mishaps and airplanes are deeply associated with each other and all of us are acquainted with this hard-fact since years. However, in the near future, such mishaps related to aircraft and airplanes can be avoided with the revolutionary radio, developed by scientists at NASA. A team of scientists from the US-based space agency NASA has […]
Smoked meat ups the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease
The world is full of meat lovers. People love to eat meat in various ways, some prefer to fry it, some cook it and some love to have it in a smoky manner. Maximum meat consumers prefer to have smoked or grilled meat. It’s actually good in taste, but it has also certain harmful effects […]
Earth orbital variations and sea ice formations: Key to ice age periodicity
Using computer simulations, the scientists have discovered a further truth to the cyclic nature of the ice and glacial age on earth. The 100000-year cycle of extended cold periods through the history where the average temperature across the globe drops and in the Polar Regions, the seas ice further declines the ambient conditions required for sustaining […]
Apollo 1 space mission commemoration
27 Jan 1967 would forever be marked as a black day not only in the history of NASA but also the history of human advancement into the space age. This day for all intent became notorious when the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle caught in a flash fire in its launch pad causing the loss of three astronauts […]