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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ready for touchdown on asteroid Bennu
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 21 (ANI): NASA's first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu's surface.
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NASA picks three companies to develop human landers for Artemis moon missi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 1 (ANI): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Thursday that it has picked three designs for spacecraft to take astronauts back to the surface of the moon.
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Alabama High School student names NASA's Mars helicopter
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 29 (ANI): A student from the Albama High School, Vaneeza Rupani named the spacecraft that will attempt NASA's first powered flight on another planet.
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Atmospheric tidal waves maintain Venus' super-rotation
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 25 (ANI): Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.
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Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 Data, scientists find one more secret
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 26 (ANI): Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was ready for another encounter. It was January 24, 1986, and soon it would meet the mysterious seventh planet, icy-cold Uranus.
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SpaceX Starship test ends in implosion: Musk laughs it off on Twitter
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Boca Chica (Texas) [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): Private space launch leader SpaceX recently suffered a setback when a ground test of its upcoming Starship spacecraft ended up in a violent implosion.
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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated using Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.
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'Boeing Starliner's debut test could have gone worse'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): Boeing's passenger spacecraft -- Starliner -- reportedly faced a second potentially disastrous software glitch during its debut test flight in December last year.
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SpaceX gears up for Starship's suborbital test launch
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Boca Chica (Texas) [USA], Feb 5 (ANI): Commercial space launch giant SpaceX is gearing up for the upcoming suborbital test run of its future Starship spacecraft at its Boca Chica facility in Texas.
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US spy satellite being shadowed by Russian "inspector" spacecraft
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 1 (ANI): An American spy satellite is apparently being stalked by a Russian satellite in the Earth's orbit.
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ESA to launch Solar Orbiter to face the Sun
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 23 (ANI): The European Space Agency's (ESA's) new Sun explorer will be launched from Cape Canaveral on 6 February.
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SpaceX will destroy a Falcon 9 launch vehicle to test Crew Dragon escape s
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Florida [USA], Jan 19 (ANI): SpaceX is set to test the emergency escape system of its Crew Dragon passenger spacecraft.
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