Category: Space

ISRO Starts Work on Chandrayaan-3 Mission Ahead of 2021 Launch: In its second attempt to soft-land on the Moon, India began working on its third lunar mission — Chandrayaan-3 — which is scheduled for launch in early 2021, a top space official said on Wednesday. On January 1, Sivan told the media in Bengaluru that…

ISRO to Send Humanoid Vyommitra in Space Ahead of Human Spaceflight: Vyommitra – the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) half humanoid will go as a trial to space before Gaganyaan goes with astronauts. Union Minister Jitendra Singh tweeted a 31-second video and wrote, “In the run-up to the first Human Space Mission by India at @isro … Vyommitra,…

SpaceX Aims to Send NASA Astronauts to Space in Q2 2020: Musk: After NASA and SpaceX successfully completed a launch escape demonstration of the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket, Elon Musk said that his aerospace company aims to send NASA astronauts to space between April and June this year. This was the…

Oxygen on the Moon? ESA Prototypes Plant That Extracts Oxygen From Lunar Soil: One of the major challenges for humans to live on the Moon is finding sufficient amount of oxygen to breathe. It is important as for dreaming of colonising on the Moon, we need a constant source of oxygen. While astronauts wear spacesuits…

Core of Huge Dying Galaxies Formed Just 1.5 Billion Years After Big Bang: Study: The core of massive dying galaxies with more than a trillion stars was formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang — about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed, reveal astrophysicists. Galaxies are broadly categorised as dead or alive:…

SpaceX Elon Musk Emergency Landing Successful Crew Dragon Abort System Test: Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time as soon as this spring. A Crew…

Asteroid Twice the Size of Big Ben to Skim Past Earth Today: NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid with an estimated diameter of about 755 feet – larger than the Golden Gate Bridge tower or more than twice the height of London’s Big Ben – that is currently heading towards Earth and is expected to skim…

NASA Building Homes Made of Fungi for Moon, Mars: Instead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to become our future homes in the stars, and perhaps lead to more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well. Creating a livable home for future…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Simulate Rocket Failure in Final Astronaut Capsule Test: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from US soil. Less than two minutes after…

NASA Planet Hunting Satellite TESS Finds Earth-Sized World in ‘Goldilocks Zone’: NASA’s planet-hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Another first for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is its discovery of a world orbiting two stars, evoking the planet…

ISRO GSAT-30 Communication Satellite Successfully Inserted Into Orbit: The European space agency Arianespace opened its 2020 space missions account with a successful dual satellite launch – India’s communication satellite GSAT-30 and Eutelsat Konnect – into geo-stationary transfer orbit on Friday early hours with its heavy lift of Ariane 5 rocket. The Ariane 5 rocket lifted…

Mars Is Losing Water Faster Than Expected, Study Claims: Researchers have claimed that Mars, the red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory as well as past observations would suggest. The gradual disappearance of the water occurs when sunlight and chemistry turn water molecules into the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that they are…