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ISRO's SSLV-D2 rocket successfully places 3 satellites into their orbits
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
ISRO launched the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle - SSLV-D2 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Friday. The launch has put ISRO's earth observation satellite EOS-07 and two co-passenger satellites Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 into a 450 km circular orbit around the Earth.
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ISRO launches SSLV-D2 rocket carrying 3 satellites from Sriharikota
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched Small Satellite Launch Vehicle - SSLV-D2 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Friday to put three satellites EOS-07, Janus-1 and AzaadiSAT-2 satellites into a 450 km circular orbit.
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Study: Plasma thrusters used on satellites could be much more powerful
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
It was believed that Hall thrusters, an efficient kind of electric propulsion widely used in orbit, need to be large to produce a lot of thrusts. Now, a new study from the University of Michigan suggests that smaller Hall thrusters can generate much more thrust, potentially making them candi
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Tumultuous migration on the edge of the hot Neptune desert: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Res
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Planetary system's second Earth-size world discovered
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star, the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likel
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UK's Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure after suffering "anomaly"
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
After taking off from Cornwall, the Virgin Orbit plane flew to 35,000 ft over the Atlantic Ocean where it jettisoned the rocket containing nine small satellites towards space.
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Space solar power technology demo launched into orbit
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Transporter-6 mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on January 3.
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Kim Jong Un calls for 'exponential increase' in North Korea's nuclear arse
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The North Korean leader also called for the development of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in 2023. In addition, Kim Jong Un set out the goal of putting a reconnaissance satellite into orbit as early as possible, according to KCNA.
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Alien planet found spiralling to its doom around ageing star
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet whose orbit is decaying around an evolved, or older, host star.
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Changes in Earth's orbit may have triggered ancient warming event
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change, according to an international team of scientists.
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NASA launches international mission to survey Earth's water
Updated : 3 years, 3 months 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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Astronomers find that two exoplanets may be mostly water
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are "water worlds," planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume. These worlds, located in a planetary system 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, are unlike any planets
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