Ten days after it was launched from the shores of Cape Canaveral, the Orion spacecraft is set to put its name in record books. The spacecraft will pass the record set by Apollo 13 for the farthest distance traveled by a spacecraft designed for humans as it travels 4,32,192 kilometers from the planet. The previous…
While the Orion spacecraft beamed back incredible images of the Earth and the Moon during its closest flyby to the lunar world, not all is well with the mission. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has lost connection with one of its CubeSats launched onboard the Artemis-1 mission. CubeSats OMOTENASHI and…
On October 16, 2021, as the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket deployed the Lucy spacecraft successfully, engineers were in a mood of jubilation, but it was all about to change. Just hours into its flight, the spacecraft beamed back data that showed an anomaly as it traveled away from the planet. While no…
When astronaut Cooper heads down on Dr Mann’s planet beyond the wormhole, his spacecraft hits the clouds that are frozen, it was a fictional world created by Christopher Nolan that existed in another galaxy. New study reveals there could be worlds with unique cloud properties even like the one on Dr Mann’s…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has approved a new mission to visit a comet and other interstellar objects that have just started their journey into the inner Solar System. The Comet Interceptor will be launched with the Ariel exoplanet mission in 2029. The probe aims to explore a comet that has spent little time in…
When the Dart mission launches on November 24, scientists will be on their toes to attempt a first of its kind event in deep space – crashing a spacecraft purposely in an asteroid. As the spacecraft hits the celestial object, scientists are hoping it will change the orbit of the asteroid and demonstrate a unique…
India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. “Indeed, a satisfying feeling,” K Radhakrishnan who as the then Chairman of Indian Space Research Oranisation (ISRO) led the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM, also called Mangalyaan)…
China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national. A Long March 2F rocket transporting the Shenzhou-12, or “Divine Vessel”, bound for the space station module Tianhe blasted…