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 …
After being in talks for months, Xiaomi and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will bring the space agency’s NaVIC navigation system to Xiaomi’s lineup of smartphones. Announcing this news on social media platforms, the next Redmi smartphone set to launch in India will offer NaVIC support. It will also be the first smartphone in …
Don’t lose hope! The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hasn’t given up on their dream to land on the Moon. The ISRO chairman, K Sivan sent a letter to students at a panchayat union school in Tamil Nadu where he has specified that he will try to land on the Moon, once more. On their …
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, …
Whenever we talk about NASA, words like space, galaxies, stars, satellites, shoot in our mind. Well, the space agency deserves more credit, as it not only brought us closer to the space knowledge but also gave us some technologies that we use in our daily life without any realization of the science behind their origin. …
We're all still over the moon from the 50 anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission, but NASA is already preparing to take its next step, with the ambitious Artemis programme that will see the first woman and the next man, walk on the lunar surface in 2024. Artemis is named after the twin sister …
