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Solar Orbiter releases first data to scientific community, public
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 30 (ANI): The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that measure the conditions surroundin
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More underground water found on Mars
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 28 (ANI): European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft has discovered several ponds of liquid water buried under the ice in the south polar region of Mars.
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Hints of fresh ice in Enceladus's northern hemisphere
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 19 (ANI): New composite images made from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are the most detailed global infrared views ever produced of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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Northrop Grumman names spacecraft in honour of fallen astronaut of Indian
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 9 (ANI): Northrop Grumman has named its next space station resupply ship after Dr Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut of Indian decent.
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China's experimental reusable spacecraft successfully returns to designate
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 6 (ANI): China's reusable experimental spacecraft has successfully returned to its designated landing site on Sunday, according to Chinese media.
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SpaceX capsule opens, NASA astronauts brought out of spacecraft
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Aug 3 (ANI): SpaceX capsule Crew Dragon, the first commercial mission to the International Space Station returned safely to Earth on Sunday splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico on Florida's Gulf coast.
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Crew Dragon undocks from ISS, headed back to Earth
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Aug 2 (ANI): SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft with astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley has successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and is headed back to Earth, reported Sputnik.
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ESA/ NASA's Solar Orbiter returns first data, snaps closest pictures of Su
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 16 (ANI): The first images from ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission, are now available to the public, including the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun.
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Five years after New Horizons flyby, 10 cool things about Pluto
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 15 (ANI): Five years ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history. After a voyage of nearly 10 years and more than 3 billion miles, the intrepid piano-sized probe flew within 7,800 miles of Pluto.
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Evidence for volcanic craters on Saturn's moon Titan
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 16 (ANI): Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and
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SpaceX, NASA launch first astronauts into orbit from US soil in nearly a d
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospher
Updated : 5 years, 9 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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