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US space mining company to target mineral-rich asteroid this week
February 25, 2025 8:29 am
AstroForge will launch its second spacecraft, Odin, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26.
What is helium and why is it used in rockets?
September 14, 2024 12:04 am
Past missions that have been affected by pesky helium leaks include ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 and ESA’s Ariane 5.
To bring Sunita Williams back to earth, Boeing conducts over 1,00,000 simulations and results are reassuring
August 07, 2024 8:08 am
Boeing confirms that 27 of 28 RCS thrusters on the Boeing Crew Flight Test (Boe-CFT) capsule are healthy and back to full operational capability.
Sunita Williams led-Boeing Starliner mission faces delay in return, extend stay at space station
July 01, 2024 3:06 am
The mission’s complications began with the Starliner’s launch aboard an Atlas V rocket. Though a helium leak was detected before takeoff, it was deemed manageable at the time.
NASA's Magellan radar suggests volcanoes on Venus are still active
May 28, 2024 1:44 pm
A new study by scientists suggests that Venus, the almost Earth sized planet was volcanically active between 1990 and 1992.
NASA launches asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft
November 24, 2021 1:17 pm
The spacecraft will collide with Dimorphos at a speed of about 24,000 kilometres per hour. The collision is expected to take place between September 26 and October 1, 2022.
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. Here’s how to watch the launch
November 24, 2021 10:21 am
After launching to space, the spacecraft will make nearly one full orbit around the sun before it crosses paths with Dimorphos, a football-field-sized asteroid.
European-Japanese space mission gets first glimpse of Mercury
October 04, 2021 5:45 pm
The mission was launched in 2018, flying once past Earth and twice past Venus on its journey to the solar system’s smallest planet.
Hot dates: Two spacecrafts to make Venus flyby
August 09, 2021 3:14 pm
NASA and the European Space Agency are planning to send three more missions to Venus toward the end of the decade.
NASA's 56-year-old satellite meets its end, makes a fiery return in Pacific Ocean
September 02, 2020 2:47 pm
The satellite was launched in 1964 to study Earth's magnetosphere and how it reacts while orbiting around the Sun. The satellite helped scientists collected data till 1969 before it was decommissioned two years later.
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