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NASA extends SpaceX crew flight contract for 3 missions to ISS
Washington : NASA on Tuesday awarded three additional missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to Elon Musk led SpaceX company for a $3.49 billion contract.The contract for Crew-7, Crew-8, and Crew-9 is part of NASA's Commercial…
Sanctions on Russia won’t affect ISS operations : NASA
Washington : Even as Russia's military invasion of Ukraine has sparked criticism and invoked several sanctions, it is unlikely to affect its longstanding space partnerships with the US, NASA has said. The US space agency has asserted that…
NASA’s moon rocket core stage engine retest successful
Washington : After replacing faulty control mechanisms, all core stage rocket engines on NASA's moon rocket have performed successfully in a recent series of tests, the US space agency said.Last month, a faulty controller on the RS-25…
James Webb Telescope images star twinkling 18 times
Washington : The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's 18-segmented primary mirror.The alignment was done using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam)…
NASA’s Perseverance completes 1st year on Mars
Washington : NASA's Perseverance rover has successfully completed the first year since touching down on Mars on February 18, 2021.Weighing roughly 1,025 kgs, Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to safely land on Mars, and also return…
NASA releases first images from its new X-ray mission
Washington : US space agency NASA has released the first science images from its new Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer IXPE that was launched on December 9, 2021.NASA said that all instruments are functioning well aboard the observatory,…
NASA unveils first images from James Webb Space Telescope
Washington : NASA has unveiled first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) which represents early stages of the telescope's 18 main mirror segments properly aligning.This image mosaic was created by pointing the telescope…
NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to bring samples from Mars
Washington : NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space to build rockets to help retrieve samples from Mars.The Colorado-based company will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment,…
International Space Station will plunge into Pacific in 2031: NASA
Washington : The International Space Station (ISS) will continue its operations until 2030 and will plunge into the most remote point in the Pacific Ocean in 2031, NASA confirmed in a new transition plan released this week.According to the…
NASA’s Mars orbiter finds water flowed on Red Planet longer than thought
Washington: It is commonly believed that water on Mars evaporated about 3 billion years ago.But two scientists studying data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of liquid water on the Red Planet as recently as 2 billion to…