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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's newest prototype of its Starship Mars-colonizing vehicle just passed a crucial pressure test, potentially paving the way for more ambitious trials in the near future.Starship version SN2 survived a cryogenic pressure test late Sunday (March 8) at SpaceX's South Texas facilities, company founder and CEO Elon…

Home News Spaceflight An Arianespace Soyuz rocket rolls out to the launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana for the VS23 mission, on Dec. 12, 2019. (Image: © Arianespace) A sharp-eyed satellite's launch has been pushed back from its expected Thursday (March 5) launch date until no…

A closer look at an LVDC core memory module: The Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC) had a key role in the Apollo Moon mission, guiding and controlling the Saturn V rocket. Like most computers of the era, it used core memory, storing data in tiny magnetic cores. In this article,…

The Indian Space Research Organisation had then resolved to launch the project again. It had said the project is likely to be launched by the end of the year. File Image Chandrayaan-3 will be launched in the first half of 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, indicating that there could…

NEW DELHI: Chandrayaan-3 will be launched in the first half of 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, indicating that there could be a slight delay in the launch of the third moon mission. In written response to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office…

Home News Science & Astronomy China's Yutu 2 rover, as seen by the Chang'e 4 lander on the far side of the moon. (Image: © CNSA) China's far-side moon mission has turned its history-making gaze underground.The Chang'e 4 spacecraft touched down on the floor of the 115-mile-wide (186 kilometers) Von…

Home News Spaceflight An artist's depiction of the VIPER moon spacecraft. (Image: © NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter) NASA is delaying the launch of a long-lived rover designed to sniff out water on the moon.The agency announced plans for the  new VIPER mission (the name is short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration…

Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film Hidden Figures to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died on Monday at the age of 101, NASA said. “Our NASA family is sad…

US President Donald Trump on Monday declared that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were set to seal a “very major, among the biggest ever made” trade deals. He also said India should consider making the US its “premier partner in defence deals” from here on. Trump called Modi a…

Published on Feb 24, 2020This video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970. These visualizations, in 4K resolution, depict many different views of…