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In historic flight, Indian rocket puts ‘OneWeb’ satellites into orbit
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.
October 23, 2022 -
Astronomers discover ‘cataclysmic’ star pair with shortest orbit yet
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.
October 6, 2022 -
NASA satellite breaks from orbit around Earth, heads to moon
NASA teamed up with two commercial companies: California-based Rocket Lab and Colorado-based Advanced Space, which owns and operates the Capstone satellite.
July 4, 2022 -
Inside our neighbour’s core
An impact crater serves as a bore hole to probe the Moons mantle as a Chinese lander has recently shown.
May 24, 2019 -
Musk shares look of SpaceX’s first Internet satellites
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.
May 13, 2019 -
ISRO raises IRNSS-1I navigation satellite’s orbit
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday successfully carried out the first orbit raising operations of a navigation satellite launched on Thursday.
April 13, 2018 -
SpaceX puts Spanish satellite into orbit
SpaceX on Tuesday put Spanish satellite Hispasat 30W-6 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the company announced. The American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company launched the satellite at 12.34 a.m., using a Falcon 9 rocket, reports Efe news. It was placed in a geostationary orbit minutes later where it will now be testing …
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March 6, 2018 -
Slowing down
The smallest celestial objects sometimes change their state of orbit or spin. The night sky has been long regarded as unchanging and even planets, the objects that move, are remarkably regular in their motion. We do know that the Earth has been gradually slowing in its rate of spin and gently closing in towards the …
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January 23, 2018 -
Russia fails to place satellite into orbit
Russia has failed to place a meteorological satellite into the targeted orbit, state space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. “Communication with the spacecraft could not be established during the first planned session due to its absence in the targeted orbit,” the agency said in the statement, without giving details. Earlier in the day, Roscosmos announced …
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November 28, 2017 -
After revealing Saturn, Cassini set for final dive on Sept 15
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Cassini that has been orbiting Saturn for 13 years is set for a final dive towards the planet and burn up in its atmosphere in a “grand finale” after it flies past Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on September 15. Cassini’s imaging cameras will take their last look around the Saturn system, sending …
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September 11, 2017 -
Japan puts third GPS satellite into orbit
Japan on Saturday launched a rocket and put the third of its new quasi-zenith satellites into orbit to help improve the precision of the global positioning system. The launch from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima prefecture came a week later than originally scheduled due to a technical problem in the rocket, Xinhua news agency …
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August 19, 2017