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An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s Starship rocket on the Moon. SpaceX After more than half a century, NASA is planning to return to the Moon with Artemis III. This first crewed landing of the Artemis program will see astronauts exploring the lunar south pole region. As a prelude, this week NASA announced the selection of […]
Delivering a major update on India’s space objectives, ISRO Chairman S Somanath announced new timelines for upcoming missions, including the ambitious Gaganyaan and Chandrayaan-4 projects. Speaking at the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture held at Akashvani, Somanath, he provided details on the Gaganyaan mission. As per Somanath, India’s first manned space endeavour is now expected in […]
An artist’s conception of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 19 spacecraft, which launched into orbit this past summer.Lockheed Martin / NOAA There’s a new Sun-observing instrument in orbit, set to fill a potential future gap. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared the first images this week from the Compact Coronagraph (CCOR 1) […]
Only two days after Hurricane Milton, by then a Category 1 storm, passed just seven miles away from Cape Canaveral, Europa Clipper lifted off into cloudless blue skies aboard a Falcon Heavy Expendable rocket. Europa Clipper will be “unveiling the mysteries of an enormous ocean lurking beneath Jupiter’s moon Europa.” Europa Clipper lifts off from […]