The Perseverance rover of NASA’s Mars 2020 project has successfully landed on the surface of the red planet giving way to the celebratory moment to the officials of the space organization. The Perseverance rover along with Ingenuity helicopter drone have left for their space journey on 30 July, 2020 and after traversing for seven long …
It’s official! NASA has announced the name of its next Mars Rover, ‘Perseverance’. This will be the fifth exploratory vehicle on the Red Planet. A seventh grade student, Alex Mather picked the name and an event at Burke in Virginia was held to announce and congratulate him. The name contest started in August through NASA’s …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has not given up efforts to spring links with Chandrayaan 2's lander Vikram, even after a hard-landing more than three weeks ago. Chandrayaan 2 was a highly complex mission, which brought together an orbiter, lander and rover to explore Moon’s South Pole. In September, ground stations lost communication with the …
Time flies, on Mars as well as Earth. It’s been seven years since NASA’s Curiosity landed on Mars. This was a harrowing and seemingly improbable maneuver that had people around the world, glued to their phones and laptop screens. On 26 November 2011, Atlas V 541 blasted in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, …
India’s second lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2, launch has been called off. It was originally scheduled from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, today at 2.51 am IST. 56 minutes and 24 seconds before its official take off, a technical snag was reported, aborting the launch. At around 3 am, today, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took to twitter and …
