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2024 in SPACEFLIGHT: The incredible missions set to take off next year, revealed - from NASA's great return to the moon to Blue Origin's all-female trip into orbit
11 months, 3 weeks ago

2024 in SPACEFLIGHT: The incredible missions set to take off next year, revealed - from NASA's great return to the moon to Blue Origin's all-female trip into orbit

Daily Mail  

AD MORE: All you need to know about NASA's trip around the moon and back 2023 shaped up to be an amazing year for space missions, from NASA's return of fragments of a faraway asteroid to India landing on the moon's south pole. Here's a look at the big space launches of 2024, from NASA's return to the moon to …

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UAE spacecraft takes close-up photos of Mars’ little moon
1 year, 7 months ago

UAE spacecraft takes close-up photos of Mars’ little moon

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft around Mars has sent back the most detailed photos yet of the red planet’s little moon. Mars’ other moon, Phobos, is almost double that size and better understood since it orbits much closer to Mars — just 3,700 miles away, the closest of any planet’s moon in our solar system. Al-Matroushi and other scientists …

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ISRO Loses Mangalyaan As India's First Mars Mission Runs Out Of Battery
2 years, 2 months ago

ISRO Loses Mangalyaan As India's First Mars Mission Runs Out Of Battery

News 18  

India’s Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery is drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country’s maiden interplanetary mission Mangalyaan may have finally completed its long innings. The ₹450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into the Martian orbit on …

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ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month
3 years, 2 months ago

ISRO's Mars orbiter was made for mission life of six months, completed seven years in orbit this month

Firstpost  

The lessons learnt have raised the confidence of ISRO scientists for taking up future interplanetary missions. India’s Mars Orbiter spacecraft has completed seven years in its orbit, well beyond its designed mission life of six months. The main lessons learnt were in the field of design and realisation of systems and subsystems, launch for interplanetary mission, insertion into other planet’s …

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Netizens Applaud as UAE’s Hope Probe Successfully Enters Mars Orbit After 7 Months in Space
3 years, 10 months ago

Netizens Applaud as UAE’s Hope Probe Successfully Enters Mars Orbit After 7 Months in Space

News 18  

After holding their breaths for hours as the Hope probe approached the Martian orbit, Ground controllers at the UAE’s Space Centre in Dubai can finally relax as the spacecraft entered the orbit safely. The Historic Moment: Announcing the success of Mars Orbit Insertion!#ArabsToMars #HopeProbe pic.twitter.com/4N1uaHb0GS— Hope Mars Mission February 9, 2021 As the announcement was made, Twitter exploded with congratulatory …

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7 Months, 500-million kms, 121,000 kmph: UAE’s Hope Probe Checks into Mars Orbit
3 years, 10 months ago

7 Months, 500-million kms, 121,000 kmph: UAE’s Hope Probe Checks into Mars Orbit

News 18  

Launched in July last year, the UAE’s unmanned probe ‘Al-Amal’, which means hope in Arabic, entered Mars orbit on Tuesday. After travelling for nearly seven months and covering a distance of roughly 500-million kilometres, the probe managed the rare feat of entering Mars orbit. Hope’s most critical phase The probe, which weighs 1,350 kgs, will provide information about the climate …

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Tianwen-1, China’s mission to Mars, has entered orbit
3 years, 10 months ago

Tianwen-1, China’s mission to Mars, has entered orbit

CNN  

CNN — After traveling through space for seven months, China’s Tianwen-1 probe has reached Mars and successfully entered the planet’s orbit on Wednesday – bringing it one step closer to landing on the surface. Tianwen-1, whose name means “quest for heavenly truth,” is made up of an orbiter, lander and a six-wheeled rover carrying scientific instruments, according to the China …

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Arab spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight
3 years, 10 months ago

Arab spacecraft enters orbit around Mars in historic flight

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates swung into orbit around Mars on Tuesday in a triumph for the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. Ground controllers at the UAE’s space center in Dubai rose to their feet and broke into applause when word came that the craft, called Amal, Arabic for Hope, had reached the …

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UAE's 'Hope' probe set to reach Mars orbit today
3 years, 10 months ago

UAE's 'Hope' probe set to reach Mars orbit today

India TV News  

The United Arab Emirates' first mission to Mars, the "Hope" probe is set to reach the Red Planet's orbit on Tuesday. "Upon completing the Mars Orbit Insertion, the UAE will be the 5th nation in human history to reach the Red Planet. According to the mission statement, the Hope probe which is officially called the Emirates Mars Mission is designed …

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China's Mars Probe Has Travelled Over 400 Million km, Headed for Red Planet Landing in May
3 years, 11 months ago

China's Mars Probe Has Travelled Over 400 Million km, Headed for Red Planet Landing in May

News 18  

The China National Space Administration announced on Sunday that the country’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 has travelled more than 400 million km and is expected to enter the Red Planet’s orbit next month. As of 6 a.m. on Sunday, the probe had flown in space for 163 days and was about 130 million km from Earth and about 8.3 million km …

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400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planet
3 years, 11 months ago

400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planet

India TV News  

China's first Mars exploration mission Tianwen-1 travelled more than 400 million km by Sunday morning and is expected to enter Mars orbit next month, the country's space agency said. According to the CNSA, the probe is functioning stably and is scheduled to slow down before entering Mars orbit in more than a month and preparing itself to land on the …

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