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PM reviews Gaganyaan mission, announces Indian Space Station project
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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PM reviews Gaganyaan mission, announces Indian Space Station project

[ad_1] After the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission and Aditya-L1 mission, ISRO is already gearing up for future missions which include Gaganyaan. It's a manned mission that will take humans 400 kilometres above Earth, and bring them back safely by landing in the Indian Ocean. ISRO will conduct the Gaganyaan mission on October 21. To understand the mission and evaluate its progress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a high-level meeting during which he shared his plans for a future Indian Space Station.Gaganyaan mission progress and future space mission plansAccording to a release shared by the Press Information Bureau, The Department of Space presented a comprehensive overview of the Gaganyaan Mission, including various technologies developed so far such as human-rated launch ve...
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NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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NASA retires InSight lander after four years on Mars

[ad_1] NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars. NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.The US space agency said mission control had been unable to contact the spacecraft on two consecutive attempts, leading to the conclusion that its solar-powered batteries have run out of energy. "InSight may be retiring, but its legacy -- and its findings from the deep interior of Mars -- will live on," NASA said. The space agency said it will continue to listen for a signal from the lander, which last communicated with Earth a week ago, but it is considered unlikely after months of Martian dust accumulated on its two solar panels, sapping its power."We've thought of InS...
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NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years
21Dec By adminNo Comments
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NASA Mars lander InSight falls silent after 4 years

[ad_1] It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars. It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander, which has fallen silent after four years on Mars. The lander's power levels have been dwindling for months because of all the dust coating its solar panels. Ground controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory knew the end was near, but NASA reported that InSight unexpectedly didn't respond to communications from Earth on Sunday. “It's assumed InSight may have reached the end of its operations,” NASA said late Monday, adding that its last communication was Thursday. "It's unknown what prompted the change in its energy." The team will keep trying to contact InSight, just in case....
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NASA InSight lander’s death on Mars postponed! Here is why
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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NASA InSight lander’s death on Mars postponed! Here is why

[ad_1] Due to the recent unexpectedly gentle nature of Mars' weather, InSight lander is not dead yet! The unexpectedly balmy Mars weather has just postponed NASA InSight lander's death. This comes as a big relief for NASA scientists, as earlier it was expected the Mars lander would run out of power by the end of this summer. Back in November 2018, NASA's InSight lander landed on the red planet with the aim of helping scientists see deep into Mars. By now, the lander was expected to run out of power and die. However, InSight has proved quite resilient and has shown that rumours of its passing were quite premature as it is still working on collecting data with full power and it may continue to do so for next few months, possibl...
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