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Washington : NASA has cancelled its planned 2022 launch attempt of the Psyche asteroid mission the agency's first mission designed to study a metal-rich asteroid. The halt is "due to the late delivery of the spacecraft's flight software…

Washington : The US space agency has determined that its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket is ready for the Artemis 1 flight test.The agency will now roll SLS and Orion back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy next week to…

Washington : US President Joe Biden has authorised a drawdown of up to $450 million to meet Ukraine's critical arms requirement in the face of the ongoing Russian invasion, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Friday.In a statement,…

Washington : The current monkeypox outbreak, which has infected 3,417 people across 42 countries, has on Thursday been declared a pandemic by World Health Network (WHN), a global collaboration of scientific and citizen teams. The…

Washington : US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to suspend federal gas tax for 90 days, as Americans are frustrated by the nation's soaring gas prices."By suspending the 18-cent gas tax federal gas tax for the next 90 days, we…

Washington : The US space agency NASA has picked three design concept proposals for a nuclear fission surface power system design that could be ready to launch by the end of the decade for a demonstration on the Moon. This technology…

Washington : After halting Artemis 1 moon rocket's "wet dress rehearsal" several times, NASA has successfully completed the crucial fuelling test of its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket.The Artemis 1 wet dress rehearsal ended at 7.37…

Washington : A shooting incident in Washington, D.C. killed one teenager, while three adults were injured, police said on Monday.The shooting occurred late Sunday night in "the area of 14th and U Street, NW", a popular area filled with…

Washington : The International Space Station (ISS) has successfully evaded orbital debris coming from a Russian anti-satellite weapons test, according to a media report.Russia's space agency Roscosmos used an uncrewed Progress 81 cargo ship…

Washington : US President Joe Biden has urged Americans to "acknowledge and condemn the history of slavery".Biden, in a proclamation on Juneteenth Day, said, "This Juneteenth, we are freshly reminded that the poisonous ideology of racism…