News by Aarya Sinha Washington Aug 3: NASA’s InSight lander (that landed on Mars in 2018) has provided details about the depthand composition of the…
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Category: Space
Water vapour found in Ganymede’s atmosphere
By Aarya Krishnan Stockholm, Aug 1: Did you know Jupiter has 79 known moons, not including many moonlets (minor moons)? Ganymede is Jupiter’s largest moon…
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launched into space
After Richard Branson’s successful trip to space, it was Jeff Bezos, Amazon Inc.’s founder, to venture to space. Jeff Bezos’ capsule was completely automated and required no official staff on board for the up-and-down flight.
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X1.5 rated Solar Storm hits the Earth
A high speed solar storm hit the Earth on July 12th, 2021. The solar flare with the strongest bursts of radiation (solar flares) in 4 years from sunspot AR2828 were first seen on July 3rd, 2021.
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Richard Branson and Crew Reaches Space Aboard VSS Unity
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, became the first person to reach space in Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 mission on Sunday, 11th July 2021.
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New star formed from hypernova explosion
Scientists have tracked evidence of a rare massive stellar explosion dating less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
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Virgin Galactic announces its crew for spaceflight VSS Unity
A crew of six astronauts would be aboard the VSS Unity – a test flight spacecraft of Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic is a spaceflight company in USA.
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Scientists use NASA satellite data to track ocean microplastics
Scientists from the University of Michigan have developed an innovative way to track the movement of tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean.
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Gene Editing experiment successfully conducted aboard ISS
The scientists aboard International Space Station managed to successfully edit genes in space for the first time.
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DRDO successfully test-fires the ‘Agni-Prime’ Missile by Shreya Agrawal
On June 28th, the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully test fired the Agni-P or Agni-Prime missile off the coast of Odisha.
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