Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn spacecraft on Tuesday launched the first-ever crew for ‘all-civilian’ spacewalk. The first commercial spaceflight mission with a spacewalk carries billionaire Jared Isaacman, along with three others, for the all-civilian spacewalk. It lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today at after 5:23 a.m. EDT (2:54 PM IST) from historic […]
Bengaluru: Indian space startup Pixxel has bagged a NASA contract to support Earth science research using the hyperspectral technology. The Bengaluru-based company has become part of NASA’s $476-million commercial smallsat data acquisition programme — a first for an Indian startup after the space sector was opened to private companies in 2020. Co-founder and CEO Awais […]
After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a $5.2 billion mission to find out if a suspected sub-surface ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is a habitable environment. The transistor issue cropped up in May, raising fears […]
Kevin Church/BBC A repeating tone – blip, blip, blip – is the audible reminder that we are in one of the most hazardous nuclear sites in the world: Sellafield. That sound – pulsing from speakers inside the cavernous fuel-handling plant – is a signal that everything is functioning as it should. That is comforting because […]
San Francisco: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that the first uncrewed Starship mission will be launched to the Red Planet in two years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. Starship is the world’s most powerful rocket and will be used to send humans to the Moon and then eventually to […]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has left the International Space Station (ISS) and is on its way back to Earth. However, its scheduled return doesn’t involve the two astronauts who initially traveled to the ISS in the capsule — Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore — due to ongoing technical issues. The capsule is expected to land in […]
A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said Friday. This is the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected in cows, after infecting wild […]
The vastness of space, often portrayed as a seemingly endless starry expanse, is both awe-inspiring and mysterious. One question that often comes to mind when observing the night sky is: Why is space dark? With countless stars scattered across the universe, each emitting light, it seems intuitive to think that space should be brightly lit […]
Water company bosses could be banned from receiving bonuses and even sent to prison under new government legislation to combat pollution. The proposed laws will apply in England and Wales and give increased powers to regulators to tackle companies who pollute and make it easier for them to be fined. Environment Secretary Steve Reed said […]
KOLKATA: A study led by a senior professor of IIT-Kharagpur, in collaboration with international researchers, has dismissed previous claims of a ‘severe ozone hole’ in the tropical stratosphere after analysing data of 42 years. The study, titled ‘No Severe Ozone Depletion in the Tropical Stratosphere in Recent Decades,’ reassures that there is no significant ozone […]