Tag: Space mission

Aditya L1 mission: Know all about ISRO’s first solar mission
23Aug By adminNo Comments
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Aditya L1 mission: Know all about ISRO’s first solar mission

[ad_1] Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is targeting multiple space missions this year. First, we will soon get to experience the historic Chandrayaan-3 landing in just a few hours and ahead of ISRO's moon mission, it is also planning to launch a spacecraft that will study the Sun, its environment, solar flares, solar storms, coronal mass ejection, and more. With a big plan ahead of this year, we are excited to see what the new studies and discoveries will unravel about our sun and the moon. Know more about the Sun mission in detail.About Aditya L1 missionAditya L1 mission will be India's first solar mission that will study Sun for nearly 5 years. The ISRO PSLV rocket spacecraft is set to take flight from Sathish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota on August 2023....
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Lofts Massive Satellite Into Space
29Jul By adminNo Comments
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Lofts Massive Satellite Into Space

[ad_1] SpaceX's most powerful operational rocket successfully took off Friday evening, carrying the world's largest commercial communications satellite en route to orbit high above Earth.Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s three-fuselage Falcon Heavy ferried the massive payload into orbit at 11:04 p.m. local time from the company's launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The flight is ongoing and deployment of the satellite is slated for about three and a half hours after liftoff. Weighing more than nine metric tons and roughly the size of a bus, the Jupiter 3 satellite will provide wireless internet connectivity over North and South America. It will be operated by Hughes Network Systems, a unit of satellite communications company EchoStar Corp. Elon Musk's SpaceX opted ...
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Want to know where space starts? Find out
18Jul By adminNo Comments
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Want to know where space starts? Find out

[ad_1] Space is a word that generates images of vast, empty, dark and scary areas out there up in the sky somewhere. However, that nebulous definition is not exactly right. So,where does space actually begin? The answer is not straightforward and a NASA scientist, Doug Rowland, stepped forward to explain it.What NASA says?As NASA explains it, “For purposes of spaceflight some would say at the Karman line, currently defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers (60 miles). Others might place a line 80 kilometers (50 miles) above Earth's mean sea level. But there is no sharp physical boundary that marks the end of the atmosphere and the beginning of space.” Rowland takes the argument much further, or shall we say, higher. He said, “The concept of where space begins depends on one's perspective...
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AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft
26Jun By adminNo Comments
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AI in space! NASA to roll out ChatGPT-like chatbot for astronauts to talk to spacecraft

[ad_1] ChatGPT has taken over every aspect of human activity imaginable on Earth and now it is spreading its tentacles to space too. NASA engineers are working on the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. It is likely to be similar to ChatGPT. Amazingly, just like in science fiction novels, it will enable astronauts to have conversations with their spacecraft. For example, this advancement in communication capabilities brings to mind the iconic depiction of HAL 9000, the supercomputer in the science fiction novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C, Clarke - it conversed with mission pilots on a spacecraft bound for Jupiter.The focus of NASA's efforts is the Lunar Gateway. It is an upcoming "extraterrestrial" space station scheduled for launch in November 2024. This ...
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For the first time, India targets the Sun with ISRO’s Aditya-L1 mission
29Jan By adminNo Comments
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For the first time, India targets the Sun with ISRO’s Aditya-L1 mission

[ad_1] India's first mission to study the Sun will be launched by ISRO in 2023 and it has been dubbed the Aditya-L1. After several years of development, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is expected to launch Aditya-L1 this year. It will be the first space-based Indian mission to study the Sun. This rocket will be carried by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Aditya-L1's instruments are programmed to observe the solar atmosphere, especially the chromosphere and corona. The payloads of Aditya L1 are expected to provide important information to understand the issues such as coronal heating, coronal mass ejection (CME), pre-solar flare and solar flare activities. The Aditya-L1 mission will also help reveal the dynamics of space weather, propagation of solar particles ...
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