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Lunar mission loss! In big setback to Intuitive, Odysseus lander falls over on the moon’s surface
25Feb By adminNo Comments
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Lunar mission loss! In big setback to Intuitive, Odysseus lander falls over on the moon’s surface

[ad_1] In a momentous leap for space exploration, the United States marked a significant milestone with the touchdown of the Odysseus lander on the moon's south polar region. However, the triumph was not without its share of unexpected twists. Odysseus, the first US-built spacecraft to land on the moon in over 50 years, encountered a huge setback upon landing, finding itself tipped over on its side, as revealed by US space agency NASA and Intuitive Machines via (the Gaurdian). Intuitive Machines CEO, Steve Altemus, disclosed that the spacecraft had "caught a foot" during descent, resulting in the unintended tilt.Despite the unforeseen deviation from the landing plan, Altemus reassured that Odysseus lander remains in close proximity to its intended landing site, with most scientific inst...
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Yes, We do need another moonshot, or five
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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Yes, We do need another moonshot, or five

[ad_1] If all goes well, Japan will become at least the fourth country with a moon mission this year, making lunar exploration more active than it's been in five decades. The renaissance is being led by nations not usually considered leaders of the space race, which is an important development for the entire planet. In truth, launching a large tin can at the moon in the hopes of sticking the landing is challenging and fun, but it's not a money maker. Anyone hoping to spin a dime is better off staying grounded and finding ways to get AI to serve up ads or create cat videos. Thankfully, human endeavor isn't driven solely by profits. Also read: Elon Musk's Starlink, Jeff Bezos' Kuiper to get rival as EU seeks satellite offers in AI race Icky as it sounds, great adventures are more often dr...
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Chandrayaan-3 proved India’s cost-effective space mission capability: Jitendra Singh
28Aug By adminNo Comments
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Chandrayaan-3 proved India’s cost-effective space mission capability: Jitendra Singh

[ad_1] Chandrayaan-3 has proved India's capability for cost-effective space missions, said Union Minister of State for Space Jitendra Singh.Speaking at an interactive meet of intellectuals, prominent citizens and media persons in Indore on Saturday, “The Russian moon mission, that was unsuccessful, cost ₹16,000 crore, and our (Chandrayaan-3) mission cost just around ₹600 crore. Consider, Hollywood films based on moon and space Missions cost over ₹600 crore." He said India's space missions are designed in such a way that it is cost-effective. India, he said, has learned to compensate for costs through skills. “Questions will arise, how? We made use of gravitational forces, the spacecraft made about 20 orbits of the earth, each rising in parabola, until it escaped and was captured in t...
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Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
26Aug By adminNo Comments
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Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?

[ad_1] In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the Indian Space Research Organisation has returned in triumph, with the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touching down near the south pole of Earth's rocky neighbour.India's success came just days after a spectacular Russian failure, when the Luna 25 mission tried to land nearby and “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface”. These twin missions remind us that, close to 60 years after the first successful “soft landing” on the Moon, spaceflight is still difficult and dangerous. Moon missions in particular are still a coin flip, and we have seen several high-profile failures in recent years. Why were these missio...
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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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NASA MAVEN captures mesmerizing ultraviolet images of Mars
25Jun By adminNo Comments
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NASA MAVEN captures mesmerizing ultraviolet images of Mars

[ad_1] NASA's MAVEN has released stunning ultraviolet images of the red planet from different points along its orbit around the Sun. The ultraviolet wavelength images will help researchers discover atmospheric dynamics and examine surface characteristics in detail, Devdiscourse stated.With the help of MAVEN's Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument, scientists were able to capture clear images of Mars in two different seasons 2022 and 2023. To make the ultraviolet wavelengths visible to the human eye, a color scheme is used, where the distinct brightness levels of three ultraviolet wavelength ranges are transformed into vibrant shades of red, green, and blue. Not only it helps us understand the different wavelengths but it also helps scientists to differentiate between atmosp...
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Europe shoots for the moon with role in NASA programme
15Feb By adminNo Comments
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Europe shoots for the moon with role in NASA programme

[ad_1] European astronauts could walk on the Moon for the first time in the coming years, in exchange for the continent taking on a key role in an ambitious NASA space programme. The US space agency's Artemis programme aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the historic Apollo missions, which ended in 1972. For the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) and European aerospace giant Airbus have been entrusted with supplying vital "service modules" (ESMs) for NASA's Orion spacecraft. In exchange, Europe has three guaranteed seats on the mission's flights, probably from 2027, although discussions are ongoing to try to get earlier spots. The role of the Europeans is vital -- they are providing "half of the spacecraft that will take people to the Moon and, o...
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Joy! NASA’s asteroid mission achieved mission impossible, created history
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Joy! NASA’s asteroid mission achieved mission impossible, created history

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Spectacular! James Webb Telescope, Hubble Telescope capture NASA craft’s asteroid strike
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Spectacular! James Webb Telescope, Hubble Telescope capture NASA craft’s asteroid strike

[ad_1] World's two most powerful telescopes, James Webb Telescope and Hubble Telescope, captured Nasa spacecraft's asteroid impact. NASA's DART mission success looks to have got everyone on the internet excited. And it should! As one NASA official siad, it has given relief to earthlings from the threat of potentially dangerous asteroids. While the US space agency has already shared the scenes of the historic moment, the world's most powerful telescopes, James Webb Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have also captured the moment and revealed the first images of the Dart Mission Asteroid strike on Thursday. This is not only a special moment for NASA as it has created history of crashing a craft into an asteroid, but also this...
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3 Russian cosmonauts return safely from International Space Station
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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3 Russian cosmonauts return safely from International Space Station

[ad_1] Three Russian cosmonauts returned safely on Thursday from a mission to the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov touched down softly at 4:57 p.m. (1057 GMT) at a designated site in the steppes of Kazakstan about 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan. The trio arrived at the station in March. For Artemyev, the mission marked a third space flight that has brought his total time spent in orbit to 561 days. Matveyev and Korsakov each logged 195 days on their first missions. As the Soyuz capsule was descending on a big striped red-and-white parachute under clear skies, Artemyev reported to the Mission Control that all members of the crew were feeling fin...
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