Russia launches 7 new civilian satellites into orbit in 2020: Space Agency
Moscow, Dec 31: The Russian constellation of civilian and double-use satellites has expanded by 7 percent during the outgoing year, ...
China’s lunar mission Chang’e returns to Earth with Moon rocks
Dec 17,2020:A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early on Thursday in the first mission ...
Renowned scientist Roddam Narasimhan passes away
Bengaluru, Dec 15 ,2020: Renowned aerospace scientist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Prof Roddam Narasimha, passed away here Monday ...
Indian-American astronaut among 18 in NASA’s manned Moon mission
Washington, Dec 11,2020:Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, an Indian-American US Air Force colonel, is among 18 astronauts, half of them women, ...
Japan retrieves space probe that may hold clues to origin of planets
TOKYO/MELBOURNE,Dec 06,2020: Japan has retrieved a space probe from Australia’s remote outback after a six-year mission that may ...
An object temporarily orbiting Earth is 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid: NASA
Washington DC, December 4,2020: Using data collected at NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and orbit analysis from the ...
China lands on moon in mission to collect samples from surface
Dec 02,2020:China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface late on Tuesday in the first mission to retrieve lunar ...
SpaceX deploys 60 Starlink satellites to orbit
Washington, Nov 25,2020: SpaceX has deployed 60 Starlink satellites to orbit using a Falcon 9 carrier rocket, the US aerospace ...
China calls launch a success as robotic spacecraft heads to moon
Beijing,Nov 24,2020: The Long March-5, China’s largest carrier rocket, blasted off at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time (2030 GMT on Monday) in ...
SpaceX capsule, carrying four astronauts, docks with International Space Station
WASHINGTON ,Nov 17,2020: Four astronauts riding a newly designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX docked with the International ...