Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is ready once again. The world’s heaviest rocket ‘Starship’ has again reached the launch pad. Its last two flights have failed because the rocket had a technical glitch after launch and the mission controller had to blast it. Will it be successful in the third flight? Space agencies around the world…
Alien Planet: The picture before the news, where could it be? Is this a planet of aliens? At first glance it may seem so, but this photo is of an area of our Earth, which has been captured from space. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) keep taking different pictures of our planet. When…
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has shared important information related to its Young Scientist Programme. School children will be able to register for this program from February 20. The objective of this program is to motivate students to make careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM related fields. The last date for application has…
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has got another success. ISRO has successfully dropped the Cartosat-2 satellite, launched 17 years ago, into the Earth’s atmosphere from space. According to PTI report, the satellite entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean on February 14 at 3.48 pm Indian time. ISRO says that either the satellite might…
Low-Earth Orbit means the lower orbit of the Earth which is considered to be 400 kilometers above the Earth. Thousands of satellites are present there and are being controlled from the Earth. This place is also full of such satellites, which have become ‘garbage’ and one day or the other will fall or will be…
SLIM Moon Lander: Japanese space agency Jaxa has created history. JAXA’s SLIM Moon Lander saved its life by braving the terrible cold on the Moon! When JAXA contacted its lander after the winter night ended, it responded. Remember that India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission could not do this and could not come alive again after going into…
The names of 4 astronauts have been announced for the country’s first human space mission ‘Gaganyaan’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced the four names who are undergoing training for the mission-‘Gaganyaan’. He said that Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair, Angad Pratap and Ajit Krishnan and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are the astronauts selected…
SpaceX Crew-9 Mission: The spacecraft by which Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams will return ‘stuck’ in space, has reached the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX’s Crew-9 Mission has docked at the ISS. Dragon capsule has reached there with Crew-9. It has been named Freedom. Two astronauts have reached the space station aboard the mission. When they…
Asteroid : Asteroids continue to come closer to the Earth. Like January, in February too our earth has faced many dangerous rocky disasters. Today, i.e. on 28th February, two asteroids are coming closer with the intention of ‘shaking’ our planet. One of these will pass through a distance of only 52 lakh kilometers. This distance…
Odysseus Moon Lander: Sending a mission to the Moon, millions of kilometers away from the Earth, is no mean feat. Till now only selected countries have been able to land their missions on the moon. These include America, Russia, China, India and Japan. America made a record last week when the Odysseus lander of a…