Reputation will be on the line when Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C spaceship will launch atop a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday, following recent completed touchdowns by China, India and Japan. So why entrust such tasks to the commercial sector, especially after an attempt by another company with similar goals, Astrobotic, failed just last month? The answer lies…
A Chinese rocket launched a group of communications satellites produced by one of the country’s largest carmakers, Geely, boosting the nation’s efforts to catch up in low-Earth orbit — an area dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.Eleven satellites made by Geespace, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, lifted off aboard a Long March CZ-2C rocket…
NEW DELHI: In a significant development, Iran announced the successful launch of three satellites into space using the Simorgh rocket, despite the program’s history of multiple failures. The launch took place at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Semnan province and marked the sixth attempt for the Simorgh program.The named satellites – Mahda, Kayhan-2, and Hatef-1…
In a bid to overcome setbacks, Japan is set to attempt a soft landing on the moon’s surface with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon early Saturday morning (January 20). The country seeks to join the exclusive club of nations achieving a successful soft landing on the moon. The United States, Russia (erstwhile USSR), China,…
Private lunar lander Peregrine Mission-1, the first US spacecraft due to land on the moon’s surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, suffered an “anomaly” that experts are trying to resolve. The lander was scheduled to land on the moon on February 23. Peregrine Mission-1 – which took off earlier today appeared to lift off into…
Confirming that the 54-million-ton asteroid, of which scientists lost track nearly two decades ago, posed no threat to our Earth on October 5 this year, the US space agency said: “There are no known asteroid impact threats to Earth at any time in the next century.” Astronomers eventually lost track of the 984-foot asteroid after…
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. Launched on September 2 last year, the spacecraft positioned itself at Lagrange Point 1, from where it will undertake a comprehensive study of the Sun, focusing on the solar corona…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will launch a communications satellite using SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket this year, its first partnership with a venture led by billionaire Elon Musk who also wants to expand his other businesses in the country. The high-capacity satellite aims to boost India’s broadband communication, especially in remote and unconnected regions of the…
DEIR AL-BALAH: Israeli warplanes struck two urban refugee camps in central Gaza on Saturday, as the Biden administration approved a new emergency weapons sale to Israel despite persistent international cease-fire calls over mounting civilian deaths, hunger and mass displacement in the enclave. Even a brief halt in fighting seems out of reach. A senior Hamas…
BENGALURU: The Congress government in Karnataka is poised to take the ordinance route to enforce the allocation of 60% signboard space in all business establishments to Kannada, replacing the existing 50:50 ratio.The government’s announcement came a day after some activists of the Karnataka Rakshna Vedike vandalised signboards in Bengaluru not adhering to the 60:40 ratio….
