Laser Propulsion sounds damn cool .It sounded even cooler when ISRO chief K Sivan announced Continue reading
Category Archives: Mars
MARs bound cubesats beam back earth moon image
NASA’s first mini satellites to travel into deep space have beamed back an image of the Earth and the Moon, which appear as a ‘pale blue dot’ and a tiny white speck floating in space. Continue reading
NASA Mars InSight mission details
A robotic geologist armed with a hammer and quake monitor rocketed toward Mars on 5 May, aiming to land on the red planet and explore its mysterious insides. Continue reading
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover’s heat shield damaged
A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six-wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an “unexpected” fracture during a structural test this month, Continue reading
NASA to begin construction Moon Space Station
NASA’s goal of returning to the moon should see a major push in early 2019, when the agency awards its first contract for the lunar ‘Gateway’ program. Continue reading
NASA InSight to study MarsQuakes
In a bid to study the deep interior of the Red Planet and find traces of how it was formed, NASA is all set to send a first-ever such mission to Mars. Continue reading
NASA fires space shuttle engine at 113% thrust
NASA fired up a rocket engine pulled from a space shuttle on Wednesday – then cranked the power up to 11.
But this hot fire, as such rocket engine tests are known, wasn’t done out of nostalgia for the space shuttle program, which retired in July 2011.
The purpose was to see how Continue reading
Microbes found in extreme places on earth
A hardy community of bacteria lives in Chile’s Atacama Desert—one of the driest and most inhospitable places on Earth—where it can survive a decade without water, new research confirms. The work should put to rest the doubts of many scientists, who had suggested that previous evidence of microscopic life in this remote region came from transient microbes. Continue reading
Elon’s Tesla could be the dirtiest thing in Space
He added that NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection sterilizes spacecraft that will land on other planets to ensure our native bacteria doesn’t interact with the organisms elsewhere.
“Will the Earth’s organisms be Continue reading
Curiosity rover to test a new drill method
The first test is promising, but Curiosity will next need to drill a deeper hole and try out the shaker method. “Next, we have to drill a full-depth hole and demonstrate our new techniques for delivering the sample to Curiosity’s two onboard labs”. Despite being about 140 million miles away from the Curiosity rover, NASA scientists have successfully tested the rover’s drill for the first time since it broke using a new improvised method tested here on Earth. The wheels are holding together and it has recovered from the electrical problems, but the drill has haunted the machine for over a year. Continue reading