When you buy a new car, do you buy all of the gasoline you will ever use along with it? Probably not. However, this is how space missions are designed today, where all the necessary mission propellant is loaded into the spacecraft before launch. In his seminar, Dr. Davide Conte will be talking about his …
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Join us on February 18, 2021, and watch in live streaming the landing of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars! Launched on July 30, 2020, the rover is designed to better characterize the geology of the planet and seek signs of ancient life. In the past decades, every mission towards the red planet has shown that …
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Source: China National Space Administration In the new world of the competitive space domain, the reusable launch vehicle concept is gaining more considerable momentum. After the private firm SpaceX successfully demonstrated the technology, China’s new ‘Long March-8’, a medium-lift rocket, made its maiden flight on December 22. The vehicle was launched from Wenchang launch site …
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The Indian national space agency (ISRO – Indian Space Research Organisation) recently announced they will utilise the latest green propulsion in its forthcoming manned space flight mission ‘Gaganyaan’ scheduled for 2021-22. ISRO chairman, Dr Sivan, acknowledged the necessity of adopting green technologies to ensure minimal environmental degradation. He also confirms all the propulsion stages may …
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A phenomenal mission by Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was initiated in 2014 with the task of attaining samples from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, located 300 million kilometers from our planet. The spacecraft Hayabusa2 touched-down on the bound asteroid on June 27, 2018.The craft, with its four small remote rovers, spent a year and a …
Astra, a space start-up company based in California, emerged as the latest rocket builder to reach space.On December 15, in their second attempt, they successfully launched Rocket 3.2 vehicle from Kodiak, Alaska after the failure of Rocket 3.1 on September 11 due to a problem in the guidance system. The test flight, with the objective …
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The vehicle SN8, the most updated Starship prototype, was initially scheduled for launch on December 8 after successfully accomplishing the fourth static test on November 25. The launch was called-off two seconds before the lift-off as SN8 noticed abnormalities with one or more of its three raptor engines. On December 9, the second attempt was …
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The Milky Way will have a more detailed map, thanks to all the informations that GAIA gathered in its six years of activity. ESA’s GAIA space observatory was launched in 2013 and began its job in July 2014. Orbiting at 1.5 kilometers away from Earth, the 1$ billion spacecraft is capable to observe 100 thousands …
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SpaceX’s latest endeavour of mapping the rise in sea level took off at the end of last month. The Falcon-9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, launched at 9:17 a.m. PST (12:17 p.m. EST) on Nov. 21, 2020, from Space Launch Complex-4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California. SpaceX’s latest endeavour of …
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