Picture provided by NASA It has been more than half a century when human space program pertaining to the US nation has gone through various turmoil in respect of two long-range goals namely establishing a proper base on the moon and sending astronauts to Mars. But a bunch of aerospace engineers positioned at NASA’s Langley […]
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Magnetic Discovery in Turbulent Space near Earth by NASA
Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft (MMS) of NASA has detected the magnetic activity in the surrounding near Earth in a new way. The high-energy particles have surrounded the planet, and these are protective magnetic field deflected by the magnetosphere. When Earth’s magnetic field absorbs the energy, it can endanger the astronauts, spacecraft and satellites in space. This […]
Does U.S. need a Space Force?
Space has become host to activities of all kind, and nowadays, there is an ongoing but silent race for going to space and doing something that has never been done earlier. Before the last decade, satellites and rockets were meant for something different than what they are intended for now. ISS being privatised, and thus […]
NASA’s DAWN TO GET CLOSEST TO MINOR PLANET CERES
NASA’s Dawn spaceshuttle that was launched way back in 2007 to investigate the two protoplanets present in our asteroid belt ,namely Ceres and Vesta is in the last leg of it’s mission. The probe will reach very close to the biggest minor Planet Ceres in the near future. Dawn will be shifting into an orbit […]
The Cuban Mystery
Satellite images have always brought to our eyes something we can never think of seeing while being on Earth. A Cuban mystery when displayed by one such satellite forced everyone to worry about what was happening in Cuba. In February and May 2018 a newly constructed radome – dome-like protecting radar equipment, made from a […]
The purchase of Orbital ATK
Northrop Grumman, an American global Aerospace and defence technology company was not a leading player in the launch industry, before its acquisition of Orbital ATK. However, the company holds a rich background in producing spacecraft. These days, the company is busy developing a spacecraft bus for the James Webb Space Telescope in Redondo Beach, California. […]
Is Space Tourism The Future? Majority Won’t Be Interested Reveals A Survey!
Over the last decade, there have been significant investments in space tourism as it is speculated to be one of the most profitable businesses in the future. The forerunners in the outer space tourism sector worldwide are most of the American companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and much more. But a recent survey […]
ISS’s privatization
After the hint given by Jeff Bridenstine, that the White House is not in favor of funding specific projects run by NASA, and that for monetary aid to be taken, the first step would be handing over the International Space Station to the private companies. The upcoming news is that ISS will be split to […]
Past and Present signs of possible habitability on Mars
The Mars Curiosity rover of NASA is slowly moving up of a steep mountain made up of sedimentary rock which is positioned at the center of the Gale Crater landing site. Surprisingly the rover has found shreds of evidence of habitability on the Red Planet’s past and maybe even in the present, as per the […]
No Tourists around the Moon this year–SpaceX
As per media reports, SpaceX would not be launching the two tourists on a mission to the moon in 2018. Elon Musk, CEO, and founder of SpaceX announced on February 2018, that his company is aiming to send two customers who wish to pay for a weeklong trip to the moon around the end of […]