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NASA launches international mission to survey Earth's water
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop a SpaceX rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California with a prime mission of three years.
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Research team reveals new details about Io's volcanoes of Jupiter
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
VLA teams up with Juno spacecraft to study Jupiter's atmosphere, and ALMA reveals new details about Io's volcanoes.
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NASA's Orion spacecraft returns to Earth after historic Moon mission
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the Moon and returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis I flight test.
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Research: Space atomic clocks could help uncover nature of dark matter
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Studying an atomic clock on-board a spacecraft inside the orbit of Mercury and very near to the Sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter, suggests a new study published in Nature Astronomy.
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Red Planet Day 2022: Interesting facts about Mars
Updated : 4 months ago IST
Named after the Roman God of War, Mars, which even though has a thin atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide, still holds humanity's fascination centuries after its discovery. So, on this special day, let's look at some interesting facts about the Red Planet.
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US space plane lands after 908 days in orbit
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The solar-powered spacecraft resembles the retired space shuttle, but is several times smaller, about 9 meters (29 feet) long. Its five previous missions in orbit lasted from 224 to 780 days.
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Electrodeless device shows promise in pushing boundaries of space travel:
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Space missions already use electric propulsion devices, where electromagnetic fields are utilized to generate the thrust of spacecraft. One such electrodeless device, which harnesses radio frequency (rf) to generate plasma and a magnetic nozzle (MN) to channel and accelerate plasma, has show
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Mars meteorite impacts reveal fresh information about planet's crust
Updated : 4 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Data from two meteorite impacts on Mars recorded by NASA's InSight spacecraft provide new insights into the structure of the Martian crust.
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Technique for asteroid interior decoding could be used to guide asteroid-d
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): With DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, NASA successfully flew a spacecraft directly at the centre of a close asteroid in late September. The stadium-sized space rock was struck by the one-way kamikaze mission, which successfully reset the asteroid
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts safely splash down in Atlantic after spend
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 15 (ANI): NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts, who spent 170 days in orbit aboard the Dragon spacecraft, completed the agency's fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station by safely splashing down the coast of Jacksonville, Florida on Friday.
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NASA confirms DART mission impact changed asteroid's motion in space
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 12 (ANI): Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid's orbit. This marks humanity'
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NASA confirms DART probe's crash into asteroid successfully changed its co
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], October 12 (ANI): NASA announced that its experimental spacecraft Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully altered the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos.
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