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India's space exploration journey continues to soar to new heights, with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) eyeing missions to Venus and Mars in the next five years, according to Dr. M Sankaran, Director of the UR Rao Satellite Center in Bengaluru. Having successfully achieved a soft landing on the Moon and embarked on a mission to study the Sun, ISRO is now gearing up to conquer the new frontiers in space.Dr. Sankaran, the head of the satellite unit instrumental in placing numerous Indian satellites in orbit,…

Mars Mission: How this 52-year-old is preparing for her space trip to spend 365 days on red planet? | Photo: Pixabay (Image for representation)Astronomers and other specialists have been working for the past few decades to explore exciting space discoveries. One of the four volunteers who will spend a year on Mars is Canadian researcher Kelly Haston. The 52-year-old told the AFP news agency that they will initially receive training in a Martian habitat in Houston, Texas, before being flown to the planet's surface. …

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The United Arab Emirates' Hope space probe on Monday revealed Mars' smaller moon Deimos in unprecedented detail, shedding new light on the origin of the mysterious lumpy satellite.The probe, the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, has been orbiting Mars for two years, regularly flying past Deimos and its big sibling moon Phobos. It came within 110 kilometres (68 miles) from Deimos, a rocky object the shape of a bean just 12 kilometres wide, according to the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM). The probe -- named…

Watch | SpaceX's Starship explodes during first test flight, Elon Musk vows to improve reliabilitySpaceX's Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, suffered a catastrophic blast during its first test flight on Thursday. The rocket was designed to transport astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond, and is the latest in billionaire Elon Musk's ambitious space ventures. Despite declaring the test a success, SpaceX admitted that the rocket experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation".…

SpaceX is set to launch its Starship spacecraft into space in its first test flight, marking a crucial milestone in Elon Musk’s efforts to bring humans to far-off destinations such as Mars. The launch is the first major test of the company’s deep-space rocket Starship and is 20 years in the making. SpaceX plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to other planets, and it will be the most powerful rocket ever built, capable of generating 16.7 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The 120-meter-tall rocket system will…

Four humans will live on Mars this summer as part of a year-long mission. This mission aims to prepare humans to explore the planet. The four volunteers will be living in a habitat that replicates the conditions of Mars.   The entire habitat is 3D-printed and will include private crew quarters, a kitchen and dedicated areas for medical, recreation, fitness, work and crop growth activities, a technical work area and two bathrooms. The crew is scheduled to begin in June this year as the team has acquired the…

NASA’s Mars Rover has deposited its second rock sample for the historic Mars Sample Return mission. NASA's Perseverance Rover has now deposited its second rock sample, following the first which was deposited less than a week ago for NASA's Sample Return programme. Mars Sample Return is NASA's programme to bring important scientific samples back to Earth in a bid to study the red planet's conditions for potentially establishing a colony one day. NASA's Mars Sample Return programme is a series of missions to retrieve…

NASA's InSight lander had sent a touching message just before its death. Back in November 2018, US space agency NASA landed its InSight Lander on Mars with the aim of helping scientists see deep into Mars. Now, after more than four years of doing unique science on Mars, NASA has officially ended the InSight mission. NASA's InSight lander had sent a touching message just before its death a day ago that said, “My power's really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don't worry about me though: my time here has…