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Here are few Russian space traditions that every cosmonaut must follow
Russia has its own customs and traditions to follow before, during, and after every spaceflight launch which has become integral ever since it was started by Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space back in 1961 before his first launch. There are many activities that Russian cosmonauts and astronauts from other space agencies do in […]
NASA will reveal latest findings made by Curiosity rover at the press conference on Thursday
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover spent over 2,000 Martian days (Sols) back in March 2018 and counting. The rover has revealed a plethora of data about the red planet where humans could harbor one day. But for now, Curiosity has found something very intriguing. In fact, NASA decided to keep it under wrap until the official […]
Soyuz rocket is set to launch today from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 07.12 a.m. EDT: Watch Live
Today on June 06, three astronauts will set out on the International Space Station Expedition 57 onboard Soyuz-FG rocket which is expected to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 07.12 a.m. PDT from the Launch Pad No. 1, the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin on his mission to become the first person in space […]
SpaceX’ private spaceflight to the moon is postponed until 2019
Last year in February 2017, Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced that it would launch two private citizens around the moon by 2018 [this year] in its second crewed mission on its Crew Dragon 2 capsule that was originally designed to carry crew members to the ISS and beyond. SpaceX published a blog on its website stating […]
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 […]