LOS ANGELES: NASA scientists released preliminary images of a picture-perfect landing on Friday. Mars Rover दरेताIncluding a selfie of a vehicle hidden above the surface of Red Planet Moments before the touchdown. Among the memorable images in the history of spaceflight, the color photograph, likely to be an instant classic, …
Read More »Earth’s second ‘moon’ will take the final lap before we fly bye-bye for good
Earth’s second moon will approach Earth before going into space next week, never to be seen again. “Which other moon,” you ask? Astronomers call it 2020 SO – a small object that orbited Earth between our planet and the Moon in September 2020. Temporary satellites like these are known as …
Read More »NASA completes a ‘wet dress rehearsal’ of its space launch system
The main phase of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) at the B-2 test stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.Image: NASA Engineers from NASA and Boeing have added cryogenic propellants to the main stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), a major goal in the development …
Read More »The SpaceX Starship prototype started successfully … and then crashed into a huge Fireb.
The future giant SpaceX rocket starship – which the company hopes will go on its way to a Mars mission – crashed in a fiery explosion during a test launch off the coast of Texas on Wednesday. But the company line was very excited because the live stream of the …
Read More »Bad Astronomy | Not the 2020 SO Agroid, but the Centaur rocket from the 1966 lunar mission
Astronomers have discovered a small object in space that will pass through the Earth on December 1, 2020 by a small margin of only 50,000 km. Not only that, but the gravity of our planet will change its course so much, it will become the temporary moon of the earth! …
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