After a journey of over 10 months, India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) arrived at Mars on Wednesday, 24 September 2014 – following an insertion burn that was confirmed at 7:30am India Standard Time (02:00 UTC; 20:00 EDT in the U.S. on Tuesday, 23 Sept.) – to continue what has so far been a successful technology demonstration mission to showcase India’s entry in the realm of interplanetary research.
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India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft Tuesday, with a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle sending the…
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India launches PSLV-C53 mission, demonstrating new on-orbit capabilities
by Lee KanayamaIndia launched its 55th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) – in its Core Alone (CA)…
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India took another step forward with its human spaceflight program, as ISRO tested the crew…
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India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) has ended a run of four consecutive launch failures…
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2013 was another year dominated by the increase in robotic exploration of humanity’s most sought-after…
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SpaceX began another busy year with the launch of the Transporter-6 rideshare mission from Space…
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Blue Origin, Sierra Space, and Boeing announce Orbital Reef
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The initial deployment of OneWeb’s satellite broadband constellation reached its halfway stage on Thursday with…
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Boeing has scrubbed Tuesday’s planned launch of their Starliner spacecraft on its second uncrewed Orbital…
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Seventeen years after Sir Richard Branson watched SpaceShipOne win the Ansari X-Prize, the English entrepreneur…
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SpaceX launched the Transporter 2 mission on Wednesday, June 30 at 15:31 EDT (19:31 UTC)…
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China launches Tianzhou 2, first cargo mission to new space station
China has launched its Tianzhou 2 cargo mission to its new space station. Liftoff from…
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Mars Express and the case of the large, mysterious Martian volcano cloud
Throughout the southern Martian hemisphere’s spring and summer seasons, a large, expansive cloud emerges daily…
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The United Arab Emirates made history Tuesday, 9 February as they became the first Arab…
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The United Arab Emirates and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre have begun their first…
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Two satellites came close to colliding in orbit Wednesday, highlighting the potential hazard posed by…
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In preparation for the return of crew launches from the United States, the Department of…
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Antares, Cygnus launch on final CRS1 contract flight; debuting critical new capabilities
It might be the final CRS1 (Commercial Resupply Services 1) contract flight for both the…
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SpaceX launched its second mission in two months for Telesat Canada Sunday, with a Falcon…