This winter solstice will be a particularly special one as Jupiter and Saturn will be at their closest point for 400 years. For the past few months, the two gas giants have been approaching each other, and on the night of December 21 the date of the winter solstice this process will culminate in Read More…
China’s Chang’e-5 return from Moon successfully touched down on Earth
In its maiden attempt to retrieve materials from an extra-terrestrial body Zhang Kejian, head of the CNSA, declared the Chang’e-5 China mission a success. China’s Chang’e-5 probe successfully touched down on Earth in the early hours of Thursday, bringing home the first samples of the moon in over 40 years. The spacecraft landed Read More…
400 Kms range supersonic cruise missile BrahMos tested from Andaman
India on Tuesday “successfully” test fired the surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos “The land-attack version of the missile was test-fired in the Andaman and Nicobar at around 10 am and it was a successful trial”, an official source said. BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the lethal weapon that can be launched Read More…
SpaceX Dragon with 4 astronauts cruising to the International Space Station
Four astronauts are cruising to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX capsule in the company’s first regular Nasa mission to the International Space Station. In the Crew-1 mission, this will be the second trip to the space station by Commander Michael Hopkins, 51, an Air Force colonel and test pilot, seven years after Read More…
ISRO Successfully launched PSLV-C49 from Sriharikota
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Saturday successfully launched PSLV-C49 carrying India’s latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine customer satellites from the spaceport in Sriharikota. The rocket injected all the ten satellites into their intended orbit. The rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49/EOS-01) blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre Read More…
Supersonic cruise missile Brahmos hit the target with Pin Point accuracy : DRDO
“Brahmos, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired today on 18th October 2020 from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea,” the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in a statement. The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy after performing high-level and extremely Read More…
Comet Neowise to be seen on July 22, 23 else only after 6800 years
Neowise is a comet discovered on March 27 by NASA’s, Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, an orbiting telescope. Astronomers have calculated that the next time the comet makes its visit to the solar system will be 6,800 years later. The discovery of the comet has come as an opportunity for astronomers and Read More…
Annular solar eclipse 2020 Inside India witnessed
The entire world witnessed the annular solar eclipse, which is popularly known as the “ring of fire” eclipse on Sunday. This is a special solar eclipse as it will fall with the summer solstice which is the longest day of 2020. and been seen from Asia, Africa, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, parts of Europe Read More…
‘Ring of fire’ Annual solar eclipse is set on 21 June 2020
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun’s, blocking most of the Sun’s light and causing the Sun to Read More…
SpaceX launched US astronauts to International Space Station (ISS)
[splco_heading size=”17″ align=”left” margin=”30″]The launch of a mission that would have taken two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) was called-off due to poor weather conditions on May 28 .[/splco_heading] However then US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken started their journey towards the ISS from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 Read More…