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  NASA-Boeing Starliner spacecraft may get delayed by several months

  Science | August 13, 2021 23:52 IST

  The Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) -- the second uncrewed flight for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as part of the US space agency's Commercial Crew Programme -- has been held up since late last year.  

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  EXPLAINER: The significance of China’s new space station

  Science | June 18, 2021 9:22 IST

  The three-member crew is due to stay for three months in the station’s main living module, named Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony. They will be carrying out science experiments and maintenance, space walks and preparing the facility to receive two additional modules next year.

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  China Space Station: First crewed mission to construct new orbiting laboratory launched

  World | June 17, 2021 9:14 IST

  The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert. The launch was telecast live by the state-run CGTN-TV.

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  China to send 3 male astronauts to its space station in June

  Science | May 31, 2021 8:26 IST

  A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China's new space station, according to a space official who was the country's first astronaut in orbit.

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  Chinese cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docks with orbital station

  Science | May 30, 2021 8:07 IST

  Automated spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docked with China's new space station carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew.

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  NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

  Science | May 11, 2021 11:47 IST

  With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.

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  NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaves mess after grabbing asteroid samples

  World | April 16, 2021 10:18 IST

  OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made one final flyby of asteroid Bennu on April 7 to take photos of disturbance left by October's sample collection.

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  NASA's Odyssey spacecraft marks 20 years of mapping Mars

  Science | April 09, 2021 16:34 IST

  Launched 20 years ago on April 7, the orbiter, which takes its name from Arthur C. Clarke's classic sci-fi novel "2001: A Space Odyssey", was sent to map the composition of the Martian surface, providing a window to the past so scientists could piece together how the planet evolved.

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  Mars Mission: 3 countries to send unmanned spacecraft to red planet this week

  Science | July 13, 2020 16:43 IST

  The U.S., for its part, is dispatching a six-wheeled rover the size of a car, named Perseverance, to collect rock samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.

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  NASA's spacecraft completes closest flyover of asteroid sample site

  Science | January 24, 2020 12:48 IST

  OSIRIS-REx's primary goal in the Nightingale flyover was to collect the high-resolution imagery required to complete the spacecraft's Natural Feature Tracking image catalog

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  Dragon spacecraft delivers cargo to ISS

  World | December 09, 2019 9:23 IST

  SpaceX said the Dragon will leave the ISS in about 30 days and return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, where teams from the company, which is owned by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, will recover the spacecraft for reuse in future missions.

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  Chandrayaan-2 orbit successfully raised for fifth time

  Science | August 06, 2019 18:00 IST

  According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the orbit of Chandrayaan-2 was raised to an orbit of 276x142,975 km by firing the spacecraft's onboard motors for 1,041 seconds. All spacecraft parameters were normal.

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  NASA's Mars 2020 rover to explore ancient life

  Science | June 14, 2019 10:53 IST

  The goal of the Mars 2020 rover is to look for signs of ancient life. It will be the first spacecraft to collect samples of the Martian surface, caching them in tubes that could be returned to Earth on a future mission, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.

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  Israeli spacecraft crashes in attempt to land on moon

  World | April 12, 2019 8:04 IST

  "We definitely crashed on the surface of the moon," said Opher Doron of Israel Aerospace Industries.  

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  Scientists find a way to levitate objects with light

  Science | March 20, 2019 10:58 IST

  In theory, this spacecraft could be patterned with nanoscale structures and accelerated by an Earth-based laser light. Without needing to carry fuel, the spacecraft could reach very high, even relativistic speeds and possibly travel to other stars.

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  Why launch of Israel's 'Uber-style' lunar lander Beresheet is causing buzz

  Science | February 22, 2019 15:59 IST

  An Israeli spacecraft blasted off to the moon in an attempt to make the country's first lunar landing, following a launch on Thursday night by SpaceX.

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  NASA's first mini-spacecraft in deep space goes silent

  Science | February 07, 2019 15:02 IST

  It has been over a month since engineers have heard from MarCO, which followed NASA's InSight to the Red Planet.

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  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft welcomes 2019 by flying past most distant cosmic object ever explored

  Science | January 01, 2019 21:50 IST

  According to mission details published by NASA, New Horizons was scheduled to complete the flyby at around 11 am IST Tuesday.

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  NASA's spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu after two-year space travel

  Science | December 04, 2018 9:59 IST

  The spacecraft's full name, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, has revealed its major tasks. It is expected to return the sample to Earth in September 2023, according to NASA.

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  China developing new-generation manned rocket, spacecraft

  World | November 07, 2018 11:20 IST

  With a take-off weight of 2,000 tonnes, the new rocket is expected to have carrying capabilities of 25 tonnes for lunar trajectories, 70 tonnes for low-Earth orbit.