Category: Space News
Spot the Comet
It has been non stop action in skies since past few weeks !! First, it was falling of a meteorite in Russia. Then, Earth had a close call when an enormous asteroid passed it. And now its turn to spot newly discovered comet Panstarrs in the night sky. What a treat for space lovers!! Comet […]
SpaceX lands at The ISS
The spaceX cargo ship that was carrying the supplies for the ISS has successfully captured. The two spacecrafts were 253 miles above northern Ukraine, when the capture happened. The cargo ship is carrying equipment, parts, food and supplies weighing almost 1,043 kg. The capsule was launched on Friday March 1, but gave a lot of trouble to SpaceX and […]
SpaceX heads to Space to deliver Supplies
Most of the time we need something, we either go get it from outside or a delivery person comes home to deliver the stuff. But have you ever wondered what do astronauts do when they are out of food or equipment supplies? Or what if they have to send some test samples back to Earth. Surely they can’t start […]
India Launches Seven Satellites
One rocket. Seven satellites and a big feat achieved by India at Sriharikota. On Monday evening, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C20 (PSLV-C20) carried seven satellites into space including the Indo-French satellite Saral, the world’s first smart phone-operated nano satellite, a space telescope satellite and four other foreign satellites. President Pranab Mukherjee witnessed the event and was full of praise for […]
Clean-up in Meteorite-hit Urals Begin
Russian authorities have sent a clean up and a rescue team to the meteorite struck area. The rescue team consists of 20,000 workers. On friday balls of fire descended as the meteor landed in a lake near a town called Chebarkul. Almost 12,000 people were injured as the glass from the windows was shattered and hurt […]
Meteorite Falls in Russia
A huge meteorite estimated to be weighing 10 tonne, entered Earth’s atmosphere and fell near Chelyabinsk, a Russian city in the Ural Mountains. It fell shortly after 9 a.m. local time. The Meteorite looked like a bright fireball speeding across the sky leaving a thick white trail. Many people who saw it at first thought that it […]
Asteroid to pass near Earth
Asteroid named ‘2012 DA 14’ will come really close to the Earth tonight. Would it crash into Earth? Not really, that is what the experts are saying. This asteroid that is the size of an Olympic swimming pool will cross Earth at a distance of 28,000 kilometres. No other object that size has ever gotten so close […]
Curiosity Drills, Collects Rock Powder
Just last week Mars rover Curiosity had hammered flat slab of rock on Gale Crater. NASA says that hammering was done to check whether the drill tool, held on the end of the rover’s arm was working fine. The tool functioned as expected and everything turned out fine. So this week Curiosity went ahead and drilled a 6cm deep […]
Faster Than Felix?
Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier when he jumped from a balloon in October. Now the scientists have analysed his skydive video for a longer time and have determined that the Austrian reached a speed of 843.6 mph. This is 10 mph higher than what was earlier determined to be Felix’s speed in October.
Curiosity Hammers a Martian Rock
Curiosity, the Mars rover has added another feather in its cap!! It was first robot to carry the technology to drill into the rocks . Now, it has become the first rover to ever hammer a Martian rock!! The robot tapped a flat slab of rock on Gale Crater, the same place where it had landed last year. The purpose of this exercise is to see whether the […]
