NASA won the awards for the coverage of InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) missioin to Mars, including news, web, education, television and social media efforts, and the SpaceX Demonstration Mission-1.
Finding Vikram lander: September 17 (Tuesday) is going to be a big day in Isro's efforts to track and establish contact with Vikram The Lander, that went incommunicado just 335 metres away from its landing site on Moon's South Pole on September 7.
Asteroids are serious business. Last time a big one hit the earth, it wiped off dinosaurs. Two such astronomical giants are going to be in earth's neighbourhood this weekend. But NASA has said that Asteroid 2000 QW7 & Asteroid 2010 C01 are unlikely to hit earth and are expected to just pass by.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is sending radio signals to Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander to help ISRO establish communication. NASA's Deep Space Network has been beaming radio frequency to Vikram Lander.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday said officials of the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) visited its headquarters and met its Chairman K.Sivan.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing its attempt to reach out to India's moon lander sending communication signals with its Deep Space Network (DSN), said officials.
Three asteroids are expected to shoot past the earth today, said NASA Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) tracks all asteroids. One of the asteroids monitored by the American space agency arm is the 2019 RG2, which will hurtle past at around 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) — closer than any potential asteroid near-miss for the next three months.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gave ISRO a pat on the back even after the latter suffered a setback in Chandrayaan-2 moon mission. The premier space agency of the US said that ISRO has "inspired" them.
The lander lost communication with ground stations during its final descent. ISRO officials said, adding that the orbiter of Chandrayaan-2 -- second lunar mission -- remains heathy and safe.
10 interesting facts: Chandrayaan 2 will make history on Saturday (September 7) as it will join the elite club of nations to carry out soft landing on the surface of the Moon. As the world, including leading space agencies like NASA look to ISRO as it takes a giant leap, read things which you would love to know.
Once in space, the telescope will explore the cosmos, planets and moons within our solar system as well as the most ancient and distant galaxies using infrared light, NASA said on Wednesday.
Nasa Astronaut Crime Latest news: What do you do in case of a strange transaction on your credit card? Or if you find out that your account has been accessed by someone other than you. You quickly call your bank right? But what happens if the computer was not present on earth. Aliens then? This case is out of this world. Literally.
Various NASA centres will partner with the companies -- which range from small businesses with fewer than a dozen employees to large aerospace organizations -- to provide expertise, facilities, hardware and software at no cost, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. -- NASA flight director at some of the most iconic moments of space history -- has died. He was 95.
According to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, the main difference between the Apollo programme and the "Artemis" is that the former culminated with brief stays on the Moon while the latter will entail a permanent human presence there.
The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five years from now. The moon will serve as a critical proving ground, the thinking goes, for the real prize of sending astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.
The Trump administration had directed NASA to return humans to the moon by 2024 and then go forward to Mars. NASA has named this mission "Artemis" in honour of Apollo's twin sister in Greek Mythology, the goddess of Moon.
The Soyuz-FG rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:28 pm (Moscow time) and successfully took off for the international space station (ISS).
Apollo 11 Space Mission: Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin was the crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.
The celestial event will be visible in India and few other regions including Europe, Africa, South America and Australia tonight commencing at 12:13 am IST. This will the last lunar eclipse of 2019 so if you miss this opportunity you will have to wait until May 2021. The Lunar Eclipse will last for about 5 hours and 34 minutes in total and approximately 2 hours and 58 minutes in partial. Since this eclipse is taking place during the monsoon season, chances of poor visibility are high. The eclipse will end at 5:47 am.
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