Tag: SpaceExploration
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“Asteroid Bennu: Possible Remnant of an Ancient Ocean World”
The initial examination of the asteroid Bennu sample brought back by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed unexpected findings about the early solar system and the possible beginnings of life on our planet. The 121.6-gram sample, gathered in 2020 and returned to Earth in 2023, has provided a wealth of valuable data for researchers. The OSIRIS-REx…
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Beyond Borders: The Journey of Gopi Thotakura, India’s Pioneer in Space Tourism
In 1984, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, a former pilot of the Indian Air Force, became the pioneer Indian to venture into space. However, now, Pilot Gopichand Thotakura is on the verge of making history as the first Indian tourist to embark on a space journey. He has been selected to join the crew of Blue…
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“ISRO’s Ambitious Frontier: India Set to Launch its First International Space Station by 2028, Announces S Somanath”
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has unveiled its ambitious plan for the future of space exploration, announcing its intention to launch India’s first international space station by 2028. S Somanath, the chairman of ISRO, revealed this groundbreaking initiative during a special event held in Ahmedabad on Friday. Speaking to a group of young scientists…
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NASA is back with the Artemis program to return humanity to the Moon.
The original plan was for NASA to carry out the Artemis 3 mission in 2025, which aimed to land humans on the Moon, more than five decades after the last Apollo mission in 1952. However, the United States Government Accountability Office has recently stated that the space agency will not be able to achieve this…
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ISRO has activated the second instrument on the Indian Solar Spacecraft, Aditya-L1, allowing it to observe the Sun.
ISRO announced that the Aditya Solar wind Particle Experiment (ASPEX) payload on board India’s Aditya-L1 satellite has successfully begun its operations and is functioning as expected. The ASPEX consists of two instruments, namely the Solar wind Ion Spectrometer (Swis) and the SupraThermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (Steps). The Steps instrument became operational on September 10,…