Tag: debris
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Chandrayaan-2: NASA locates Vikram lander’s debris on moon surface
NASA in its statement said, 'Despite the loss, getting that close to the surface was an amazing achievement'.
December 3, 2019 -
LPG blast: Two killed, five injured in Aligarh
Two persons were killed and five others injured, two of them seriously, in an explosion in Aligarh town of Uttar Pradesh on Friday, police said. Many houses in the vicinity were damaged following the explosion in a house in Beema Nagar locality. Senior district and police officials rushed to the spot to oversee rescue operations …
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September 8, 2017 -
Gecko-inspired robotic gripper may help clean up space debris
Scientists from Stanford and NASA have designed a new gecko-inspired robotic gripper that can grab and dispose of space debris that pose a hazard to satellites, spacecraft and astronauts aboard those vehicles. About 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are whizzing around space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 28,000 kilometres per hour. This debris …
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June 29, 2017 -
London tower debris fear shuts two Tube lines
Two London Tube lines were partly suspended on Saturday over fears that passengers could be hit by falling debris from the charred Grenfell Tower. The Hammersmith and City Line were suspended between Edgware Road and Hammersmith amid concerns that debris could fall on to the tracks, BBC reported. The Circle Line was also closed partly …
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June 17, 2017 -
Space missions likely to encounter growing threat of debris
Space missions are likely to encounter a growing threat of more debris, scientists warned on Tuesday at the 7th European Conference on Space Debris. The four-day meeting was held in the southern German city of Darmstadt, where the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) is located. Since 1957, over 4,900 space launches have led to an …
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April 19, 2017 -
‘Mars may have had rings, and they may come back’
Mars could once have had rings, and the red planet may regain them again, according to a new study. A new model developed by scientists at Purdue University in the US suggests that debris that was pushed into space from an asteroid slamming into Mars around 4.3 billion years ago alternates between becoming a planetary …
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March 22, 2017 -
New suspected MH370 debris found with marks of fire
A newly found debris suspected to be from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that went missing in March 2014 may be the first piece of evidence supporting the theory that there was a fire on board the plane, said media reports. Five pieces of debris were handed over to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau …
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September 14, 2016