The asteroid, called 1998 OR2, will make its closest approach at 5.55 a.m. EDT (3.25 p.m. India time).
Tag: NASA
NASA’s InSight lander ‘hears’ strange sounds on Mars
Far below the human range of hearing, these recordings had to be speeded up and slightly processed to be audible through headphones, NASA said
NASA’s TESS probe spots black hole tearing apart a star
NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission detected the tidal disruption event
Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission will carry experiment from NASA, says ISRO
The orbiter and lander modules will be interfaced mechanically while the rover is housed inside the lander.
Moon shrinking and creating wrinkles “like a raisin”, spots NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
A team of scientists examined the data from NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and compared the location of tremors recorded in the 1960s and 1970s during the Apollo program
NASA to launch spacecraft that will hit an asteroid in 2022
Washington: In an attempt to pull off a feat so far seen only in science fiction films, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will hit a small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos in September 2022. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test[Read More…]
Giant asteroid to fly towards the earth in 10 years, says NASA
They also said that there is no need to worry about it as it will be about 19,000 miles (31,000 km) away from our planet
US rocket launched to bring NASA cargo to ISS
Washington: A US rocket has been launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, carrying cargo with the space agency’s re-supply mission for the International Space Station (ISS). The Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman lifted off on Wednesday evening, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS,[Read More…]
3 Indian student teams win awards at NASA rover challenge
Washington: Three Indian student teams won awards in NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the US Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. The team from KIET Group of Institutions in Ghaziabad won the “AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design Award” in the college/university division, NASA said in a statement[Read More…]
NASA ‘Twins Study’ decodes space impact on human body
Washington: NASA’s landmark “Twins Study”, which gave us the first integrated molecular view into genetic changes, has demonstrated that a human body adapts and remains robust and resilient even after spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The findings, published in the Science journal, will help NASA[Read More…]
Watch: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy side boosters nail triple rocket landing
SpaceX launched the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket on its inaugural commercial mission on Thursday evening at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time SpaceX managed to land all three rocket boosters after launch. For the first time ever, all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters returned to Earth[Read More…]
International Space Station infested with bacteria “Like Gym on Earth”, says NASA
The knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can be used to develop safety measures for NASA for long-term space travel or living in space
NASA’s solar probe completes 2nd closest encounter with Sun
Washington: NASA on Friday announced that it’s Parker Solar Probe, the fastest spacecraft in history, has completed its second close approach to the Sun and is now entering the outbound phase of the second solar orbit. At 6:40 p.m. American Eastern Time on Thursday, the spacecraft passed within 15 million[Read More…]
India’s anti-satellite test threatens ISS, a ‘terrible thing’ says NASA chief
On 27th March, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization fired a missile during an anti-satellite missile test that destroyed a satellite in space. India’s destruction of one of its satellites has been labelled a “terrible thing” by the head of NASA. NASA’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine said the missile test created 400[Read More…]
Growing food choices for astronauts in space
One of the most important primary design factors (for each and every hardware) while building models to launch in space is weight and volume. Space shuttles also consider the weight and volume before they are launched. The food habit of the astronauts in these space shuttles has been a source[Read More…]
First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA
Washington: The first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. “It’s likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It’s also true that the first person on Mars is likely to be a woman,” CNN cited Bridenstine as[Read More…]
SpaceX’s unmanned Crew Dragon to launch on March 2 to ISS: NASA
Washington: After much delays, NASA has given the green light to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to launch its first unmanned test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, the US space agency said. The flight, called Demonstration Mission-1 or DM-1, will be launched at 2.48 a.m.[Read More…]
Moon could be a chemical factory for water: NASA
Washington: NASA scientists have simulated a chemical process through which ingredients for water could be made on the surface of the Moon making it a chemical factory, an advance that could aid in the goal of sending humans to establish a permanent presence there. The team from the US space[Read More…]
How NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover enriched space science in 15 years
Los Angeles: Designed to last just 90 days and travel 1,000 metres on Martian landscape, NASA’s Opportunity rover outlived its mission lifetime by more than 14 years to become the longest lasting robot sent from Earth and the first wheeled vehicle off Earth to log a drive distance of over[Read More…]
NASA declares end of Opportunity rover’s mission on Mars
Los Angeles: NASA announced the end of its Opportunity rover’s mission on Wednesday, 15 years after its arrival on Mars. The announcement was made at a press conference at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, following NASA’s last attempt to communicate with the rover on Tuesday night which[Read More…]
Kalpana Chawla: First woman of Indian origin in space
16 years back on this day, India lost one of its most talented children when US Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on its way back to the earth. India born Kalpana Chawla along with six other crew members lost her life. Kalpana Chawla continues to inspire millions of people with her[Read More…]
NASA replaces astronaut for 1st Boeing mission to ISS
Washington, The US space agency has replaced one of the astronauts assigned to fly on the first crewed test launch of a first-time Boeing capsule to take passengers to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced late Tuesday that astronaut Eric Boe will no longer fly on the mission owing[Read More…]
NASA’s planet hunting probe discovers third new planet
New York, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists report. The new planet named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light years away in the constellation Reticulum. It appears to have the longest orbital period of[Read More…]
NASA Administrator withdraws invitation to Roscosmos head: Report
Washington, Facing criticism from Senators in the US, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has rescinded the invitation to the Russian space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, The Washington Post reported. “We had heard from numerous Senators suggesting that this was not a good idea. And I wanted to be accommodating to the[Read More…]
MIT researchers propose tiny satellites to guide huge space telescopes
London: Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have proposed that in the near future giant telescopes like NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope might be replaced by large number of tiny spacecraft working in tandem. In a bid to study planets beyond our solar system, NASA engineers are[Read More…]