New Delhi: Indian-US partnered NASA-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar, which is likely to be launched early next year, completed a key trial at Isro’s compact antenna test facility, NASA’s said in a statement on Wednesday. It added, “The test was followed by a 21-day trial in a thermal vacuum chamber that showed the spacecraft can function in the extreme temperatures and …
Long time, no speak: NASA has re-established contact with the intrepid Ingenuity Mars Helicopter after more than two months of radio silence, the space agency said Friday. Ingenuity’s 52nd flight launched on April 26, but mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California lost contact as it descended to the surface following its two minute, 1,191-foot hop. Nonetheless, “this …
Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tracked the 1000th Near-Earth Asteroid after its radars picked up 2021 PJ1 as it passed at a distance of just 1.7 million kilometers from Earth. A global radar system tracks NEOs “2021 PJ1 is a small asteroid, so when it passed us at a distance of over a million miles, we couldn’t obtain detailed radar …
When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio alert as it streaks into the thin Martian atmosphere. Thus, Thursday’s final, self-guided descent of the rover spacecraft is set to occur during a white-knuckled interval that …
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