The magnificent spiral galaxy M51, often known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, has been photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image exhibits complex and displays the galaxy’s well-developed spiral arms. The Whirlpool Galaxy, which is around 27 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici, is well-known for its turbulent interaction with NGC…
The helicopter made a quick 25-second hop, providing the Ingenuity team with vital information to help them comprehend why its 53rd flight terminated abruptly. After an unforeseen stoppage during its last hop, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has now successfully completed its 54th trip on Mars, marking an important milestone. For the Perseverance Mars rover science…
The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) was able to raise the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s orbit with success for the second time. The spacecraft is now flying at a perigee of just over 200 kilometers thanks to the Orbit-Raising Maneuver. To achieve the precise altitude required to get away from Earth’s gravitational force and set out on…
Rocket Lab launched the first suborbital version of its Electron vehicle on June 17 under a veil of secrecy only broken by the rocket’s engines. At 9:24 p.m. Eastern, the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) vehicle took off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia. Nearly an hour and…
Six years and three dozen flights after the company’s initial attempt at an orbital launch, a second pair of NASA storm-tracking cubesats were launched late on May 25 using an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. The Electron rocket took off from the organization’s Send off Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:46 p.m. Eastern. Two…
SpaceX sent 22 of its Starlink broadband “V2 mini” satellites into orbit early on Friday, May 19, landing the returning rocket at sea. At 2:19 a.m. EDT (06:19 GMT) on Friday, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft of the next generation launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Bird of…
Exists life beyond Earth? It’s possible that a brand-new snake-like robot will find out. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) for a space mission to Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 83 moons with the whitest and most reflective surface in the solar system. It’s accepted that there is a…
From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday evening, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried two O3b internet satellites for SES. However, the company was unable to complete a double-header launch because a Falcon Heavy mission was aborted at the last minute. The second pair of Boeing-built satellites for SES’s O3b mPOWER network, a constellation…
You can live-stream the entire attempt to land a private spacecraft on the moon, which will be made by a Japanese company. The lander will be the first privately operated spacecraft to successfully land on the moon if Hakuto-R succeeds. The Hakuto-R lander is scheduled to be launched by ispace on April 25 at 12:40…
The head of the US space agency said on Thursday that the names of the four astronauts who will fly around the Moon next year—three Americans and one Canadian—will be announced next month. The crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3, according to NASA administrator Bill Nelson.…