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Office of technology, policy and strategy and one covering DEI initiatives were eliminated in line with ‘efficiency’ cutsNasa announced on Monday it had eliminated the office of its chief scientist and shuttered two other departments including one cove…
India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has marked a significant milestone in lunar exploration by successfully landing near the Moon’s south pole in August 2023. The landing site, officially named Statio Shiv Shakti, has been identified as a crucial location for future human missions due to its potential for water mining. Led by Durga Prasad of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, a team of
The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle, the X-37B, has returned to Earth after completing a secret mission that lasted 434 days. Launched by SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in December 2023, the vehicle carried military experiments but no crew members.The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California in the early hours, with the touchdown not being announced until
NASA has begun shutting down science instruments aboard the twin Voyager spacecraft to extend their 47-year journey through interstellar space, officials said. Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem was deactivated on February 25, while Voyager 2’s low-energ…
NASA’s second private Moon mission, Athena, is set to land near the Moon’s south pole today, March 6, 2025. Developed by Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based private space firm, Athena aims to explore the Mons Mouton region, a site of significant scientific interest due to its potential water ice deposits.The mission follows a precise lunar orbit insertion on March 3 and is part of NASA’s
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: On March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost made history, becoming the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface. The groundbreaking lander is wasting no time …
SpaceX has postponed the eighth test flight of its Starship rocket due to technical issues that arose during the countdown.The launch, which was scheduled to take place from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas, was halted at the T-40 second mark after problems with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship spacecraft were identified.Initially, an issue with the Super Heavy booster was
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, at the International Space Station since last June, were on a mission that was to last a few weeksNasa’s two stuck astronauts are just a few weeks away from finally returning to Earth after nine months in space.Butch Wi…
NASA used specialized Schlieren photography to capture an image of Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 demonstrator aircraft breaking the sound barrier on February 10, 2025 and producing shock waves as it exceeded Mach 1. The flight produced no audible sonic boom, …
US firm Firefly Aerospace celebrates achievement of second-ever commercial lunar landingA US company has successfully landed its spacecraft on the moon, marking only the second private mission to achieve the milestone – and the first to do so upright.F…