21 Nov, 2024
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UAE plans to Launch its first Moon Rover by 2024

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently planned to visit the moon in a lunar rover called Rashid which is scheduled to be launched in the year 2024. While the nation’s first beyond the Earth’s orbit mission is going on the announcement to visit the moon has been declared. Adnan Airais headed the agency’s Mars […]

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Bits of Venus might be Covering up on the Moon

The moon might be concealing the logical key to the puzzling past of our neighboring world, Venus. Researchers feel that Earth and Venus were once outrageously comparative. At that point, something occurred on Venus to transform it into the impact-driven planet it is today. Presently, new exploration recommends that the proof of exactly how that […]

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ISRO’ Chandrayaan-II mission to study trillion dollars nuclear energy material on the lunar surface

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up its second moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-II’ which is slated to launch in October this year. But wait, the rover will land on the south side of the moon, the far side of the moon which is yet not analyzed. The aim is to land at the south side […]

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‘Lost’ tapes from Apollo missions reveal astronauts might have caused hike in temperature on the lunar surface

NASA launched several Apollo missions in the early 1970s in which, twelve astronauts were able to step on the moon; Neil Armstrong made a history after being the first person to step on the moon. However, a recent study suggests that these astronauts might have contributed towards the increasing lunar temperature which shot to more […]

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A day on Earth will last longer than 24 hours in about millions of years from today

A recent study has suggested that more than 1.4 billion years ago, a day on the Earth lasted for just 18 hours. But today, a day on Earth is around 24 hours. The duration of a day on our planet depends on many factors of which, one of the crucial factors is the Earth-Moon interaction. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]