Space
US Astronaut Peggy Whitson to Embark New Landmark Today With Spacewalk
US Cosmonaut Peggy Annette Whitson or Peggy Whitson is about to break another space record by taking spacewalk on 6th January morning. At the age of 56, when she took off from the land for the International Space Station (ISS), back in November 2016, she created the record for being the oldest-ever woman to be in […]
NASA allots imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer Spacecraft to cover its Astrophysics Missions
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is all set to carry out its new Astrophysics Missions and has selected Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Spacecraft to cover all of the studies and observations involved in the mission. As announced by the US-based agency on 3rd January 2017, NASA has appointed an X-ray astronomy spaceship […]
ISRO to mark world record by placing 83 satellites into orbit simultaneously in January 2017
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is going to create a world record by putting 83 satellites into orbit simultaneously in the early of 2017. On a single PSLV-C37 rocket, ISRO will launch total 83 satellites – 80 foreign and 3 Indian satellites – in January 2017. The launch of foreign satellites will be held Foreign […]
Science Magazine awards invention of gravitational wave with “Breakthrough of 2016”
The ground-breaking discovery of Gravitational waves has been honored with the award of “Breakthrough of 2016” by a renowned Science Magazine. On 22nd December 2016, the award for the most noteworthy discoveries of the year announced and the finding of gravitational waves is prized with the highest yearly honor because of its experiment for waves […]
Nasa astronaut Thomas Pesquet tweets stunning mountains-view from Expedition 50
Thomas Pesquet, the French aerospace engineer-pilot-astronaut of European Space Agency knows well how to keep the social media and space enthusiastic in high spirits. The astronaut, who is currently an onboard member of ESA’s satellite Expedition 50 has tweeted some stunning and breath-taking pictures of mountains from space. The pictures are giving some real and […]
Astronomers discover largest superclusters of galaxies next to Milky Way
The Milky Way – which houses our solar system was previously believed to be alone. But now, a new discovery has come to forefront raising some serious questions on this long-established belief. A group of international astronomers recently have discovered the largest superclusters of galaxies close to the Milky Way, a finding which can lead […]
India’s Team Indus Ties Up with Japan’s Hakuto for Next Lunar Mission
A Bengaluru-based space startup company – TeamIndus – the only Indian team to represent the country in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition, on Wednesday publicized the report of its partnership with a Japanese space company for the upcoming Lunar mission. In the announcement of the commercial agreement, Team Indus mentioned about its collaboration with Hakuto, […]
China kicks off its first carbon dioxide detection satellite ‘TanSat’ today
In order to detect and monitor the emission and impact of carbon dioxide, China, has successfully launch its first minisatellite to space. Today, on 22nd December 2016, China’s first-of-its-kind global carbon dioxide detection and monitoring space probe took off from the ground-based launcher in order to understand the changes in climatic patterns. The satellite named […]
NASA to develop ‘Restore-L’ to grasp, renovate and refill fellow robots
NASA, in order to enhance its efficiency in space exploration missions, is working on a new robot repairman who will be employed for repairing, grasping and refilling the associate robots. NASA, while sending its multi-million dollar unmanned robots to space often faced malfunctions and glitches in its technical and software programs. Because of such small […]