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China launched four satellites in two days
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 07 (ANI): While the world was occupied with NASA and Space X launching first manned orbital spaceflight from the US, China made space strides of its own with two successful rocket flights back to back.
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NASA's Crew Dragon astronauts enter International Space Station
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 1 (ANI): Two NASA astronauts crossed over into the International Space Station on Sunday after their Crew Dragon capsule docked with the orbital outpost after an hours-long space journey.
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule successfully reaches low Earth orbit, astronauts saf
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 31 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) said that the SpaceX Dragon Capsule has successfully reached low Earth orbit and the two NASA astronauts are safe and sound.
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SpaceX, NASA launch first astronauts into orbit from US soil in nearly a d
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 31 (ANI): SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday successfully took off from Kennedy Space Center for the International Space Station (ISS), with two NASA astronauts -- Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley.
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NASA postpones launch of American astronauts to ISS due to bad weather
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 28 (ANI): Minutes before launch, NASA on Wednesday (local time) called off the most awaited mission that was to be the first to take American astronauts to orbit from American soil in nearly a decade.
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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospher
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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Galactic crash may have triggered Solar System formation
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C.[USA], May 25 (ANI): The formation of the Sun, the Solar System and the subsequent emergence of life on Earth may be a consequence of a collision between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and a smaller galaxy called Sagittarius, discovered in the 1990s to be orbiting our galactic hom
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Astronomers using Subaru Telescope determine that TRAPPIST-1 planetary orb
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 14 (ANI): Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star.
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World's first COVID-19 business readiness and impact assessment tool launc
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India]/Jakarta [Indonesia] May 5 (ANI/NewsVoir): The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced business owners and entrepreneurs to re-examine their business continuity plans.
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 23 (ANI): A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our Solar System. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever
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