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The Proba-3 (Project for Onboard Autonomy) mission consists of twin satellites in which two spacecraft (placed inside the satellites) would fly together as one, maintaining a precise formation down to a single milli-metre to study the Sun's outer atmosphere.
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Proba-3, designed to study the Sun's faint corona near the solar rim, is set to launch aboard the PSLV-XL rocket operated by ISRO. The mission will lift off at 4:08 PM IST on December 4, 2024, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. Announcing the launch, ISRO shared on X, “The PSLV-C59/PROBA-03 Mission is set to take flight on 4th December 2024, 16:08 IST from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota!”
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Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Quantum Space, and Northrop Grumman, among others, will conduct ten three-month-long studies.
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The Mars Express mission by the European Space Agency reveals a substantial underground ocean of dusty ice beneath Mars' equator, measuring between 4.9 and 8.9 feet deep.
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ESA's Aeolus spacecraft, renowned as the wind mission, skillfully executed a re-entry into Earth's atmosphere under the guidance of ESA mission officials after depleting its fuel. It successfully touched down in Antarctica on July 28.
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It took about 18 minutes for images to travel directly from Mars to Earth for the live-streaming late on Friday
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Paris: The European Space Agency’s (ESA) said its Earth-observing Sentinel-1A satellite barely escaped a “high-risk collision” from a 2021 Russian missile test that had generated over 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris in space. ESA’s Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation, which provides an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. In […]
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Cape Canaveral: SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk’s taxi service. Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, @Astro_Raja, @astroMarshburn, @astro_matthias, and @astro_kayla! pic.twitter.com/zgoX2CITQh — SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 6, 2022 The three U.S. astronauts and one […]
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Washington: NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark by detecting the farthest individual star ever seen to date. The star named Earendel, which means “morning star” in Old English, is estimated to be at least 50 times the mass of our Sun and millions of times as bright, […]
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Washington (US): James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever constructed, will lift off on Christmas. The USD 10 billion project spanning over three decades, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, hopes to look further back in time than ever before – to find […]
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Peenya’s success story captures the Indian scientific establishment’s rise from modest beginnings with shoe-string budgets
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The new images of the iceberg's big break were captured by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, an Earth-observing project made up of two orbiting satellites: Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B.
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With NASA’s rover landing on Mars and spacecraft from the UAE and China entering its orbit, the Red Planet comes under human microscope
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Of the newly discovered stars, 43 may escape the gravitational constraints of the Milky Way galaxy in future and fly into intergalactic space
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The exoplanet called "HD106906 b" occupies an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away, according to the study published in the Astronomical Journal.
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About the size of a small pickup truck, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite will extend a nearly 30-year continuous dataset on sea level.
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This so-called "ultra-hot Jupiter" named WASP-189 b sits around 20 times closer to its star than Earth does to the Sun, and completes a full orbit in just 2.7 days, according to a paper accepted for publication by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
