To determine the size of the ring particles, UVIS observed them when the instrument was pointed at the Sun, looking through the rings in what is known as a solar occultation.
October 19, 2022NASA teamed up with two commercial companies: California-based Rocket Lab and Colorado-based Advanced Space, which owns and operates the Capstone satellite.
July 4, 2022NASA has cancelled its planned 2022 launch attempt of the Psyche asteroid mission -- the agency's first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid.
June 26, 2022Boeing had signed a contract with NASA's Commercial Crew Programme to fly operational missions to and from the space station with Starliner in 2014. However, a series of setbacks have thus far prevented the Starliner from reaching the ISS.
September 22, 2021Chandrakanta Kumar studied in the village school three decades ago.
July 16, 2019Spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth next year with the samples that could provide information on the origin of the solar system.
July 11, 2019With a take-off weight of 2,000 tonnes, the new rocket is expected to have carrying capabilities of 25 tonnes for lunar trajectories, 70 tonnes for low-Earth orbit.
November 7, 2018Till now, only two spacecraft have been to Mercury, NASA's Mariner 10 which flew past the planet in 1974 and 1975 and the US space agency's Messenger which orbited the planet between 2011 and 2015.
October 15, 2018The spacecraft will depart the ISS, along with critical scientific research, at 12.37 p.m. EDT and splash down in the Pacific Ocean at about 6.17 p.m.
August 3, 2018Named after physicist Eugene Parker, who published a groundbreaking paper on solar winds in 1958, the probe is expected to be launched on August 11, 2018.
July 23, 2018Media invited on 13 July to view the spacecraft that has been designed to touch the sun.
July 11, 2018As NASA’s asteroid-bound spacecraft OSIRIS-REx approaches Earth for its September 22 gravity assist, a ground-based telescope has captured images of the spacecraft. This is the first Earth-based view of OSIRIS-REx since its launch on September 8, 2016, NASA said on Friday. The images were taken on September 2, by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory located...
September 9, 2017Launched 20 years ago, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft now has less than 20 days for its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn. Its fateful plunge on September 15 is a foregone conclusion — an April 22 a gravitational kick from Saturn’s moon Titan placed the two-and-a-half ton vehicle on its path for impending destruction, NASA...
August 30, 2017SpaceX will launch its Dragon spacecraft for its 11th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre on June 1. Dragon will lift into orbit atop the Falcon 9 rocket carrying crew supplies, equipment and scientific research to crewmembers living aboard the station, NASA said in a statement on...
May 20, 2017NASA's Dawn spacecraft encountered a glitch while preparing for its scheduled observation of Ceres on April 29 from an "opposition" position, directly between the dwarf planet's mysterious Occator Crater and the sun. The malfunction will not significantly impact Dawn's rest of the extended mission, NASA said in a statement on Wednesday. One of Dawn's two...
April 27, 2017Cassini spacecraft will make its final close flyby of Saturn's largest moon Titan on April 21, NASA has said. During the encounter, Cassini will pass as close as 979 kilometres above Titan's surface at a speed of about 21,000 kms per hour, the US space agency said. The flyby marks the mission's final opportunity for...
April 20, 2017China will on Thursday launch its first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in Hainan province, it was announced on Wednesday. The Centre on Tuesday conducted the final rehearsal covering all systems involved in the launch such as the rocket, spacecraft, launching site and testing, control and communication systems, Xinhua news agency...
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