Tag: NASA

When Nasa landed its Mars rover Perseverance on the Martian surface, it was an Indian-American handling the controls and landing system. Swati Mohan spearheaded the attitude control and landing system of the Perseverance rover that navigated a particularly difficult touchdown.

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet.

More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it's possible to replicate the feat on another world.

NASA’s deep space exploration rocket built by Boeing briefly ignited all four engines of its behemoth core stage for the first time on Saturday, cutting short a crucial test to advance a years-delayed U.S. government program to return humans to the moon in the next few years.

October 27 - Announcing a new "exciting discovery" about Moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) said that its mission, SOFIA, has confirmed the presence of water molecules in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth on the lunar surface. This crater is located in the Moon's southern hemisphere. Moreover, this discovery indicates that "water may ...

October 22 (AFP) - With competition among Earth's telecoms providers as fierce as ever, equipment maker Nokia announced its expansion into a new market on Monday, winning a deal to install the first cellular network on the Moon. The Finnish equipment manufacturer said it was selected by NASA to deploy an "ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardened" wireless 4G network on the lunar surface, ...

October 20 (Sky News) - The Finnish company will build the technology which will be integrated into NASA's lunar landers and used for remote control, as well as streaming high-definition videos. The Artemis programme, named after the mythological sister of Apollo, the first moon mission's namesake, aims to take the first woman and the next man taken to the lunar surface ...

October 9 (ScienceAlert) - Tucked away in a canyon on Mars, scientists have discovered a windswept field of solid sand, which turned to rock roughly a billion years ago. Despite being heavily eroded, this frozen plain of palaeo-dunes has withstood time remarkably well, much more so than fossilised waves of sand on Earth, which are subject to the whims of ...

September 23 (DailyMail) - He's renowned for taking risks as the star of the Mission: Impossible movies. And now Tom Cruise is confirmed for what's probably his most daring mission yet. It seems the Hollywood star, 58, will be onboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on its scheduled October 2021 trip to the International Space Station, according to Space Shuttle ...

August 2 (Reuters) - The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. Crew Dragon “Endeavor” decoupled from the orbital station at 7:35 ...