NEW DELHI: After five months of silence, Nasa‘s Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with Earth, having overcome a perplexing communication glitch through an innovative fix. The probe, which is currently 15 billion miles away from Earth, experienced issues with its flight data system’s telemetry modulation unit in November 2023, resulting in indecipherable data … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nasa on Monday awarded two Indian students‘ teams from Delhi-NCR and Mumbai for human exploration rover challenge. The KIET Group of Institutions from Delhi-NCR won the award in “Crash and Burn” while Kanakia International School from Mumbai received the “Rookie of the Year” award.The HERC marked its 30th anniversary as a Nasa competition, … Read more
WASHINGTON: Nasa’s Voyager 1 probe — the most distant man-made object in the universe — is returning usable information to ground control following months of spouting gibberish, the US space agency announced Monday.The spaceship stopped sending readable data back to Earth on November 14, 2023, even though controllers could tell it was still receiving their … Read more
NEW DELHI: Despite technological advancements since the Apollo missions, which landed a dozen astronauts on the moon between 1969 and 1972, the current efforts under Nasa‘s Artemis program to return humans to the lunar surface are facing significant challenges. This situation raises the question: Why is getting back to the moon so difficult today?Financial and … Read more
With the discovery of more than 5,600 planets orbiting other stars and images from robots we have sent to all the planets in our solar system, it is becoming abundantly clear that Earth is unique among worlds. Almost all of the exoplanets scientists have discovered since the 1990s fall into four main types: gas giants like Jupiter … Read more
A former NASA physicist warned that prominent constellations of low-cost satellites, like Elon Musk’s Starlink, could disrupt Earth’s magnetosphere, exposing all life on the planet to harmful cosmic radiation. A new study by Dr. Sierra Solter-Hunt uses new estimates suggesting that SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company, burns over 2,755 pounds (1.3 tons) of debris from its … Read more
NEW DELHI: The cosmic wonder of meteor shower can be observed by the earthlings as the Lyrid Meteor shower is set to peak overnight Sunday into Monday.Best observed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrids are caused by the dusty debris from a comet named Thatcher and spring from the constellation Lyra.Although, viewers may have a … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nasa’s TIMED spacecraft and the defunct Russian spy satellite Cosmos 2221 experienced an alarmingly close encounter in orbit, space.com reported. Initial estimates suggested that the two satellites passed within 65 feet (20 meters) of each other. However, further analysis revealed that the actual distance was even closer, with the satellites coming within a … Read more
Nasa‘s Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), has initiated a novel mission targeting small asteroids within the main belt. This effort seeks to deepen our understanding of these celestial objects, which are considered crucial to unraveling the mysteries of the early solar system. Managed by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center … Read more
NEW DELHI: Nasa‘s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its initial optical test, marking a significant milestone in the assembly of the highly anticipated observatory. Engineers at L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, have integrated and tested all 10 mirrors of the telescope, ensuring that the Imaging Optics Assembly (IOA) can precisely direct … Read more
