The 43.5 metre tall and weighing 644 ton LVM3 M2 rocket, carrying 36 satellites weighing totally 5,796 kg or about 5.7 ton, blasted off from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 12.07 a.m.
In another 70 million years, the stars will migrate even closer together, with an ultrashort orbit reaching just 18 minutes, before they begin to expand and drift apart.
NASA teamed up with two commercial companies: California-based Rocket Lab and Colorado-based Advanced Space, which owns and operates the Capstone satellite.
An impact crater serves as a bore hole to probe the Moons mantle as a Chinese lander has recently shown.
Musk posted a photo on Twitter, featuring the first 60 production satellites packed into the fairing of a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of their launch this coming week.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday successfully carried out the first orbit raising operations of a navigation satellite launched on Thursday.
SpaceX on Tuesday put Spanish satellite Hispasat 30W-6 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company announced. The American aerospace…
The smallest celestial objects sometimes change their state of orbit or spin. The night sky has been long regarded as…
Russia has failed to place a meteorological satellite into the targeted orbit, state space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. “Communication…
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Cassini that has been orbiting Saturn for 13 years is set for a final dive towards the…
