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Next SpaceX mission to the ISS scheduled to launch on Friday, June 29
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up for the upcoming Friday launch towards the International Space Station where its Falcon 9 rocket will take tons of cargo onboard its Dragon capsule towards the space station. The launch is scheduled on upcoming Friday, June 29 at 5.42 a.m. liftoff and the capsule will finally reach the station […]
JAXA Hayabusa 2 missions is just 100 km away from the object Ryugu
The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) recently took a step forward in its Hayabusa 2 mission which has been orbiting in the space towards its destination i.e. a dark rock called Ryugu. Ater traveling for more than three years, it reached about 100 kilometers away from its target which is a 900 meters wide asteroid which […]
RemoveDEBRIS spacecrafts deploys from ISS towards its space junk clean-up mission
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – marks the day when RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft was launched from the ISS en route to its mission to understand and study the increasing debris orbiting the Earth. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was able to capture the Star-Trek’s borg-shaped spacecraft orbiting the Earth after it was deployed from the ISS. RemoveDEBRIS, produced by […]
Dust storms encircles the whole planet; Curiosity is safe but Opportunity rover has been turned off
Dust storm on the red planet is slowly encircling the entire planet ever since it started back on May 30 and could continue for a few months now. As per the latest update, NASA Mars rover Opportunity which reported about the giant dust storm went into radio silence mode in order to preserve its much-needed […]
Mars will be closest to the Earth on July 31; It will be easily visible to naked eyes for whole June & July
Soon, stargazers and space enthusiasts will be able to have a glimpse of the red planet Mars with their naked eyes. In fact, in the coming six weeks in the month of June and July, Mars will shine brighter than ever compared to the last 15 years. The reason being its distance from the Earth […]
Scientists at India’s ISRO made an EPIC discovery
Scientists at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have made an epic discovery with a planet the size of six Earths and with a mass of 27 times than the mass of the Earth located at around 600 light-years away from our planet in a recently discovered. Scientists at ISRO have summoned the latest exoplanet as […]
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover hits another giant dust storm; It may not be able to communicate for a while
Originally designed for a 90-day mission on the red planet, NASA’s Opportunity rover has completed more than 14 years on Mars after it landed on the surface in January 2004 along with its twin rover Spirit that ceased to function back in 2010 after developing complications. Talking about the Opportunity, it is only of the […]
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 […]