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New mission to take first peek at Sun’s poles: NASA

3:43 pm January 28, 2020

Washington: NASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is launching a new spacecraft next month to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles, the US space agency announced on Tuesday. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral in the US on February […]

ISRO to send lady robot ‘Vyomamitra’ in unmanned Gaganyaan

7:51 pm January 22, 2020

Bengaluru: Even before orbiting astronauts on India’s first manned mission to the space in December 2021, the Indian Space Research Organisation will send ‘Vyomamitra’, a ‘lady robot’, in unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft. The robot was the centre of attraction at the inaugural session of the “Human Spaceflight and Exploration – Present Challenges and Future Trends” here […]

Four astronauts identified for ISRO’s Gaganyaan mission: Chief K Sivan

1:56 pm January 1, 2020

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday said the training of astronauts for the ambitious manned mission ‘Gaganyaan’ will commence from the third week of January in Russia. Four astronauts have been identified for the mission, ISRO chief K Sivan said adding the training of astronauts will start from third week of this […]

‘NASA analysing images of Chandrayaan-2’s landing site’

1:37 pm September 19, 2019

Houston: NASA is analysing, validating and reviewing the images clicked by its lunar orbiter of the area on the Moon where India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission made an unsuccessful attempt to soft land its Vikram module, according to a media report that quoted a project scientist of the US space agency. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft […]

ISRO racing against time to salvage lander-rover part of Chandrayaan-2 mission

7:52 pm September 10, 2019

Bengaluru: ISRO is racing against time to spring ‘Vikram’ back to lifeand salvage the lander-rover part of the Chandrayaan-2 mission. The lander Vikram, with rover ‘Pragyan’ tucked inside it, lost communication with the ground-stations during its final descent, just 2.1 kms above the lunar surface, minutes before the planned soft-landing in the early hours of […]

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