NASA postpones Artemis 1 Moon mission over 'engine bleed'
Aug 30, 2022, at 01:42 am
NASA postponed the launch of the Artemis 1 mission, an uncrewed flight around the Moon, which was scheduled to take off Monday from Florida after encountering a temperature issue with one of the four RS-25 engines.
A View From Space With Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari
Aug 28, 2022, at 07:18 pm
Indian American astronaut Raja Chari spent 177 days on the International Space Station, where he conducted his first spacewalk and hada bird’s-eye view of Earth’s atmosphere. SPAN writer Krittika Sharma catches up with the spaceman
NASA’s Webb captures dying star’s final ‘performance’ in fine detail
Jul 13, 2022, at 03:08 pm
Washington: The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been sending out rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust.
NASA’s Webb delivers deepest infrared image of universe yet
Jul 12, 2022, at 02:24 pm
Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date.
NASA astronauts on board International Space Station plan six spacewalks in 2022
Oct 17, 2021, at 03:11 pm
Moscow/UNI/Sputnik: A total of six spacewalks are going to be carried out from the US segment of the International Space Station (ISS) next year, according to the latest flight schedule obtained by Sputnik.
Only around 1 in 5 space industry workers are women
Oct 05, 2021, at 09:17 pm
New York: The number of women employed in the international space industry represents just 20-22 percent of the workforce, according to figures released by the UN; roughly the same proportion as 30 years ago.
NASA successfully launches ingenuity helicopter from Mars's surface
Apr 19, 2021, at 11:00 pm
Moscow/Sputnik: Engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have successfully launched the Ingenuity helicopter from Mars's surface, the first controlled, powered flight conducted on another planet.
NASA astronauts return to ISS after completing almost 7-hour spacewalk
Mar 14, 2021, at 08:33 pm
Washington/Sputnik: US astronauts Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins have now returned to the International Space Station (ISS) after completing a spacewalk for technical and maintenance tasks, NASA said.
Indian American scientist Swati Mohan leads NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover touchdown
Feb 20, 2021, at 06:19 am
New Delhi/IBNS : Indian American scientist Swati Mohan, who led the guidance, navigation, and control operations of NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover, trended throughout Friday, as she confirmed the successful landing of the rover on the red planet at around 3:55 PM Eastern Time (2055 GMT) the day before.
NASA's Perseverance Rover lands on Mars in search of ancient microbial life
Feb 19, 2021, at 02:22 pm
Washington/Sputnik: NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover landed on the Red Planet on Thursday, surviving a perilous 7-minute descent suspended by cables in the final minutes from a saucer-shaped spacecraft that slowed the plunge to walking speed before releasing the six-wheeled robot.
NASA appoints Indian-American Bhavya Lal as its acting chief of staff
Feb 03, 2021, at 11:45 pm
Washington: NASA on Tuesday named Indian-American Bhavya Lal as the agency's new acting chief of staff.
SpaceX ‘Resilience’ commercial crew Mission to ISS launches on Falcon 9 Rocket: NASA
Nov 16, 2020, at 02:42 pm
Wasington/Sputnik: The SpaceX "Resilience" Crew Dragon manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Indian cos get licence to manufacture simpler NASA designed ventilators
Nov 05, 2020, at 05:17 pm
Ventilators are in great demand during this pandemic period. The VITAL ventilators designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Covid-19 patients are affordable and simpler in design. Five Indian companies have recently received licences to manufacture it, reports Natasa Milas
NASA’s SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of Moon
Oct 27, 2020, at 07:55 pm
Washignton: NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon.
NASA lifts off cargo spacecraft named after Kalpana Chawla, carries 8000 pound supplies
Oct 03, 2020, at 03:26 pm
Washinton: A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, which has been named after late India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, is on its way to the International Space Station with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations, commercial products, and other cargo after launching at 9:16 p.m. EDT Friday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.
Emissions could add 15 inches to 2100 sea-level rise, NASA-led study finds
Sep 22, 2020, at 12:25 am
New York: An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth’s melting ice sheets could have on global sea levels by 2100. If greenhouse gas emissions continue apace,
'Potentially hazardous' asteroid set to fly past Earth on Jul 24 : B M Birla Science Centre
Jul 18, 2020, at 10:29 pm
Hyderabad, Jul 18 (UNI) Travelling at a staggering speed of 13.5 kilometres per second or 48,000 kilometres per hour, an asteroid will come within just 0.034 astronomical units (Astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun) of the earth on July 24, B M Birla Science Centre Director Dr B G Sidharth said.
ISRO congratulates NASA and SpaceX over their manned mission
Jun 01, 2020, at 03:45 pm
Bengaluru/UNI: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday congratulated NASA and SpaceX for their manned mission and termed it as ''historic''.
SpaceX-Nasa Mission: Astronauts on historic mission enter space station
Jun 01, 2020, at 08:38 am
Washington/UNI: US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on Monday docked with, and entered, the International Space Station (ISS).
May 31, 2020, at 09:17 am
Florida/IBNS: Ushering in a new era in space travel, a SpaceX spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts headed into outer space, the first in nearly a decade, from Florida's Kennedy Space Center in the United States on Saturday.
Scientists find hot gas bridge between two galaxy clusters
May 12, 2020, at 01:07 pm
Washinton/IBNS: Several hundred million years ago, two galaxy clusters collided and then passed through each other. This mighty event released a flood of hot gas from each galaxy cluster that formed an unusual bridge between the two objects. This bridge is now being pummeled by particles driven away from a supermassive black hole.
Chances for Coronavirus to get to ISS zero, says NASA
Mar 31, 2020, at 12:12 pm
Washington/UNI: Chances for the novel coronavirus to get into the International Space Station (ISS) are next to zero due to the enhanced security measures undertaken by the space agencies, NASA nurse Raksana Batsmanova said.
NASA closes 2 facilities after employee tests positive for coronavirus
Mar 20, 2020, at 04:09 pm
Washington/Sputnik/UNI: NASA has decided to close the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana after one of the employee was found to be infected with COVID-19, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Friday.
Plant growth on the International Space Station has global impacts on Earth: NASA
Mar 10, 2020, at 05:27 pm
Washington/IBNS: Understanding the effects of gravity on plant life is essential in preparing for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. The ability to produce high-energy, low-mass food sources during spaceflight will enable the maintenance of crew health during long-duration missions while having a reduced impact on resources necessary for long-distance travel.
India techie Shanmuga Subramanian's tweet on NASA's recognition goes viral
Dec 03, 2019, at 04:39 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: A tweet by Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian, where he shared that US space agency NASA has credited him for finding Vikram Lander on Moon's surface, has gone viral on the micro-blogging site.
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Lander's debris found: NASA
Dec 03, 2019, at 09:02 am
Washington/IBNS: NASA on Tuesday said its satellite orbiting the Moon has found debris of Vikram lander of Chandrayaan-2 which had crashed on the lunar surface in September.
NASA completes 1st global geologic map of Saturn's Moon
Nov 19, 2019, at 05:21 pm
Los Angeles/Xinhua/UNI: NASA scientists have completed the first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon Titan, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has said in a release.
2019 Ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery
Oct 22, 2019, at 06:20 pm
New York: The annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on Sept. 8, and then shrank to less than 3.9 million square miles (10 million square kilometers) for the remainder of September and October, according to NASA and NOAA satellite measurements.
NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing
Oct 16, 2019, at 09:57 am
Washington, Oct 16 (Xinhua/UNI) The US space agency NASA unveiled on Tuesday the next-generation spacesuits to be used in its Artemis program that will send the first woman and next man to the Lunar South Pole by 2024.
Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram had a 'hard landing': NASA
Sep 27, 2019, at 09:01 am
Washington, Sept 27 (IBNS): The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing on Sept 7 on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters but it had a hard landing and the precise location of the spacecraft in the lunar highlands has yet to be determined, NASA said.