China would launch its last Fengyun-2 satellite on June 5. The geostationary weather satellites will launch aboard the Long March 3A rocket. The rocket will lift-off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 13:10 UTC. The satellite underwent space environmental tests last month before they transported the satellite to the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The […]
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Here’s how Earth looks from the most advanced weather satellite of US
GOES-17, the latest weather satellite by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) has sent its first official image of the Earth, after three months of its launch into the space. Captured on May 20th, the views are incredible and are made available to the public today. The satellite was able to capture this […]
Another Milestone for the Orbital ATK
After evaluations, NASA has the candidate for the job. Which job exactly? It is the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III. It is the project with the name Rapid III. It is about creating two more Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). NASA has assigned those satellites the names JPSS-3 as well as JPSS-4. They are for the […]
Beidou Navigation satellite system will be getting an upgrade soon
China is going to give a boost to its satellite navigation system by launching eleven more satellites to come to a step closer to the completion of the Beidou network of thirty-five satellites by the end of 2020. This third-generation navigation satellite system was launched back in 1994 and has been serving China since 2000. […]
NASA Astronaut Peggy Whinston Speaks Up About the Poop Trouble in ISS
Majority of us consider the profession of an astronaut to be fancy, but in reality, they are not having a ball up there in outer space. Pooping is an issue, and that’s precisely what Peggy Whinston revealed. Peggy Whinston is a NASA astronaut and having spent 655 days in outer space; she disclosed that everything […]
NASA and ESA are in a quest to get closest to the sun
The universe is vast, and it never ceased to surprise us with what it has to offer. From billions of distant stars to many planets, space is filled with all kinds of fascinating processes. At one point of a time, we debated whether the earth is flat or round to this period where with improved […]
New space strategy remains overdue for Canada
The government of Canada has high hopes that it will be able to publish its new space strategy within a couple of months. However, in the meantime, it has invested around $20 million for research and development activities. The space strategy which is overdue for a year now was initially scheduled to be released in […]
Virgin Orbit and the manufacturing software – MES
Virgin Orbit has a campaign which includes designing and building as well as flying Launcher One which is considered to be its air-launched ticket constructed mainly for small satellites. All these rely on the software which is digitally manufactured. Mostly two things were to be kept in mind, building as well as launching Launcher One […]
The New Space Fence Expected to Mark Junk, Orbital Weapons & Small Satellites in Space
When our scientists and researchers started making discoveries about the deep and infinite space, nobody ever imagined that someday we would be talking about a space fence! Yes! You read it right! It’s about a space fence only! The new space fence is, in fact, a radar system which has been created with the primary […]
The concept of Virus would be the future researches of astrobiology
‘Virus’ the single word can change your idea of the existence of life. They are the most plentiful type of life on Earth, yet viruses — or their seed-like lethargic state, known as virions — are anomalies in our scan for life on different planets. Presently, one gathering of researchers are pushing for astrobiologists to […]