NEW DELHI: Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) are collaborating to establish a standardized time system for the moon as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the lunar surface. This new initiative will address the need for a unified timekeeping system to coordinate missions from various countries and private…
NEW DELHI: Nasa has successfully launched the first of two climate satellites into orbit, designed to study heat emissions at Earth’s poles. The satellite, part of the PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission, was carried by Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, at 7:41…
NEW DELHI: Nasa and Boeing are eyeing June 1 as the launch date for the inaugural crewed Starliner spacecraft mission. However, engineers are still investigating a helium leak and analysing its potential impact on critical aspects of the mission, according to a statement from the agency on Wednesday.The helium leak, which was traced to a…
NEW DELHI: ULA launch director Tom Heter III on Tuesday announced that the launch of Atlas V and Starliner which was scheduled for today, have been postponed.“Today’s Starliner launch is scrubbed as teams evaluate an oxygen relief valve on the Centaur Stage on the Atlas V. Our astronauts have exited Starliner and will return to…
NEW DELHI: A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying two women including the first Belarusian and one man landed safely in Kazakhstan on Saturday, about 3.5 hours after departing the International Space Station. The spacecraft, Soyuz MS-24 carrying NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus came back to Earth…
NEW DELHI: The first US lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed to space gave up its hopes on Moon landing after the lander faced a “critical” fuel leak on Tuesday.Informing that there was “no chance of a soft landing on the Moon”, the company said, “given the propellant fuel leak, there is, unfortunately,…
US space agency Nasa has sent Diwali greetings in a unique style. Its space telescope Hubble posted an image of a globular cluster that “captured a celestial festival of lights” which looked similar to Indians lighting up scores of diyas in their homes across the country on the auspicious day.“Happy Diwali to all those who…
TOKYO: On Thursday morning, Japan successfully launched the H-IIA rocket carrying the moon lander of the national space agency, following three postponements last month due to unfavorable weather conditions.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was responsible…
