China touches the Mars surface successfully. It has become the second country after the US to successfully land on the red planet when an unmanned Chinese China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed on Mars on Saturday. Tianwen-1, currently in orbit around Mars, dropped its lander and rover on the surface of the...
NASA, which has been supporting America’s entrepreneurs to develop technologies from ideas to commercial readiness since long in history, is to invest in small business technologies again. Giving continuity to the same, NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has declared 140 new Phase II awards to 127 US small businesses that...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx starts trip back to Earth. NASA had sent the spacecraft to an asteroid named Bennu in 2018. The asteroid is in the distance of 200 million miles (320 million km) from Earth. NASA’s same spacecraft is attempting to complete a mission to visit Bennu. Bennu is a skyscraper-sized...
After all, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter completes the fifth flight successfully. The MASA’s helicopter carried out the task on the Red Planet on Friday with its first one-way journey from Wright Brothers Field to an airfield 423 feet to the south. It was the first time the helicopter flew to a...
Finally, SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched and landed a new prototype of its Starship spaceship. The previously tested 4 Starship prototypes had exploded and after, all the 5th one landed intact. This successful test flight gets Elon Musk closer to the fully reusable rocket he wants. While testing, SpaceX had sent...
NASA plans Mars helicopter’s demonstration phase to begin after 2 weeks. NASA’s Ingenuity has proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet. After the success, NASA has planned a new mission experiment soon to embark on a new operations demonstration phase, exploring how aerial scouting and other...
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity’s third test flight also succeeded setting a record on Sunday, 25 April, 2021, by flying faster and further than any tests it went through previously even on earth. While undertaking the third test flight, the helicopter took off at 12:33 pm local Mars time, rising 16...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has accomplished the ‘Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilisation Experiment (MOXIE)’ task successfully. For converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen, the six-wheeled robot had taken an experimental instrument abroad. In a press statement, NASA said that the test took place on 20...
The first helicopter sent out of the earth’s boundary is to go through the first test flight in the Martian sky on 11 April. The little helicopter was sent there in the Perseverance rover by the American Space Agency (NASA). Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter, will make its first attempt at...
Ingenuity, The first helicopter ever sent to any other planet than the earth, finally touches the Martian land. Reported by NASA on 4th April, Ingenuity touches Martian land, or the surface of Mars. Before that, the helicopter had dropped from the belly of the Perseverance rover. The first flight of...
According to NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope has successfully reviisited the Veil Nebula. It has also taken a more beautiful image with more precise details. The Veil Nebula is in the Cygnus constellation. nearly 2,100 light years away from Earth. The Nebula is the visible portion of the nearby Cygnus...
Scientists had estimated that Apophis asteroid would pass by close to earth in 2029 and in 2036. They thought the asteroid, named Apophis after an Egyptian god of chaos, would impact on earth in 2068. But fortunately, scientists have reached to the conclusion that the asteroid won’t make any hazardous impact on earth soon....
Scientists say that they have found evidence of water in Mars hidden below the crust. Yes, they had already found the evidence that water existed in Mars billions of years ago. But the trouble was finding where the vast amount of water could have gone. Scientists now think they have...