Tag: Nasa Mission

NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid target in a first-ever attempt to move an asteroid in space, a demonstration of planetary defence exercise.

Lucy will be the first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids.

Washington: NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover that went into hibernation last June after a massive dust storm blocked sunlight from reaching its solar panels to generate power, might have “died”, fear scientists. Opportunity’s last communication with Earth was received June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover’s location on the western rim […]

Washington: The US space agency has replaced one of the astronauts assigned to fly on the first crewed test launch of a first-time Boeing capsule to take passengers to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced late Tuesday that astronaut Eric Boe will no longer fly on the mission owing to unspecified “medical reasons.” NASA […]

Washington: Mars rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission — an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the inner slope of a vast crater’s rim, NASA has said. As the rover approached the upper end of “Perseverance Valley” in early May, images from its cameras began showing parts of the […]

Washington: NASA has selected two new missions to study the Sun and its dynamic effects on space weather. The launch date for the two missions is no later than August 2022, the US space agency said in a statement on Friday. One of the selected missions will study how the Sun drives particles and energy […]