Tag: NASA
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to earth after record-breaking space mission
Koch's medical data will be especially valuable to NASA scientists as the agency draws up plans for a long-duration manned mission to Mars.
February 7, 2020 -
‘Our orbiter located crashed Vikram lander first’: ISRO chief after NASA announcement
The assertion came shortly after NASA said that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Camera sighted the remains of Vikram lander on the moon's surface.
December 4, 2019 -
Chennai techie credited by NASA for discovery of Chandrayaan-2 lander debris on moon
Shanmuga Subramanian said he had launched a separate search of his own and had taken it up as a challenge after NASA had given up.
December 3, 2019 -
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 -
Giving facilities to prevent stubble burning: Manohar Lal Khattar
"We distributed 10,000 machines last year while 15,000 machines have been distributed this year, on which we are giving 80 per cent subsidy," he said replying to the Governor’s address on the second day of the Assembly session.
November 5, 2019 -
Kejriwal appeals with ‘folded hands’ as NASA images show spurt in crop burning in Punjab, Haryana
Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi said that till the time the Centre, Punjab and Haryana governments do not take stern action, Delhi alone can't fight pollution.
October 30, 2019 -
NASA to send golf-cart-size rover to sample water ice on moon’s south pole
The mobile robot is called Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER
October 26, 2019 -
NASA finds no evidence of Chandrayaan-2 lander on Moon in its latest flyby
On September 7, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) attempted a soft landing of Vikram on the uncharted lunar south pole, before losing communication with the lander.
October 23, 2019 -
Sisters in Space
Very appropriately has the significance of the spacewalk been summed up by Christina ~ "I think it’s important because of the historical nature of what we’re doing," she said ahead of the spacewalk.
October 21, 2019 -
Former NASA Engineer, Gabe Gabrielle interacts with Akshaya Patra beneficiaries in Bengaluru
The session was aimed at providing children exposure to space education and opportunities and attended by 200 enthusiastic children from GHS Peenya and GHS Bagalgunte.
October 18, 2019 -
Chandrayaan 2: NASA’s rigorous search continues for Vikram Lander
Vikram lost contact with the ISRO following its launch from Chandraayan 2 moon orbiter on September 6 and likely landed in an area around the moon's South Pole.
October 17, 2019 -
Delhi shares NASA images of stubble burning amid ‘very poor’ air quality
Earlier, the Supreme Court-mandated Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority had said that local sources of pollution, including stack emissions, dust, and burning of plastic and rubber waste, were the primary reason for deteriorating air quality in Delhi-NCR.
October 16, 2019 -
Chandrayaan-2: ‘ISRO needs to find lander Vikram’s fate on moon’, says NASA expert
Noting that ISRO scientists have not given up on contacting the lander nearly a month after they lost contact with it in the early hours of September 7, Devereaux said they need to scan the data they got from it till the link snapped.
October 5, 2019 -
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveils transportation prototype, Starship
A shiny steel rocketship designed to ferry dozens of humans to the moon and Mars, Starship is the top half of Musk's colossal interplanetary rocket system that stands 387 feet tall (118 meters) as the latest addition to SpaceX's lineup of reusable launch vehicles.
September 30, 2019 -
Chandrayaan’s lander had a ‘hard landing’, says NASA, tweets images of site
Attempts to contact the 14-day mission life Vikram lander, ended on September 21 as lunar night began to fall in the south polar region of the moon where the lander was attempting its descent.
September 27, 2019 -
NASA joins ISRO to track Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander
The American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is sending radio signals to Vikram.
September 13, 2019 -
Purulia girl to go on NASA tour, selected from amongst 1.8 million contestants
The student of St. Xaviers School in Purulia town, Abhinanda Ghosh has successfully qualified all the three levels of International Science Olympiad.
August 20, 2019