What’s next after the Space Shuttle’s are grounded this year onwards???. Well the solution lies with the new private company namely Space Exploration Technologies (SET) which in future will be sending privately built rockets into space. As this is the last year for the aging space shuttles to carry out their missions to International Space Station (ISS) so there is a need for NASA to maintain the ISS and keep it running, so to do so they need some back up which can fill the gap till the time their Ares project is finalized.
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On the night of 3rd December 2009 a quite known phenomena was observed in the night sky revealing a breath taking view of the moon along with a dense cloud around the moon like a ring in the city of Islamabad and Rawalpindi and also across many cities of Pakistan. Some of the observers found it quite strange and were unable to understand the phenomenon so I’ll briefly explain why there was a huge ring around the moon.
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On the night of 17th November many people across Asia witnessed the breath taking view of the meteor shower that everybody was waiting for. The peak siting time was between 02.30 hours to 05.00 hours. Many People from countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Malaysia witnessed the showers.
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Our planet earth will once again experience the breath taking showers of a meteoroid on this November 17th. This event is also known as Leonid meteor shower, which in 1999 and 2001 put on some dramatic sky shows and this event not only happens in one particular place but through out the world. This time [...]
Want to spend your vacation at a place where you cant forget the thrill for rest of your life? Now you can enjoy a vacation that is out of this world, literally! Galactic Suits, a hotel that will soon be opening its doors will be located high up in the sky, in space orbiting the [...]
The news of water being discovered on moon has pumped NASA to boost their Constellation Program. But this is not all; even scientists are now dying to study more about the moon secrets and for this they need somebody to go there and start digging for the secrets they are looking for. Three probes confirming [...]
Marshall Space Flight Centre is testing a new robotic lunar lander test bed that will aid in the development of a new generation of multi-use landers for robotic space exploration. The test article is equipped with thrusters that guide the lander, one set of which controls the vehicle’s attitude that directs the altitude and landing. [...]
Man has been searching far and wide across the universe for any signs of water when all along there it was on the body nearest to our planet. No, i am not talking about Mars but our very own, the Moon! Strange but amazing, when man first stepped on the moon and brought the soil [...]
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), one of the new emerging space agencies in the world, on 23rd September 2009 launched seven satellites in a single rocket. Among these seven satellites, one was Indian, four German, one Turkish and one Swedish. India’s satellite, Oceansat-2, will enhance the ocean monitoring capabilities of the original Oceansat, which launched [...]
What’s next after the Space Shuttle’s are grounded this year onwards???. Well the solution lies with the new private company namely Space Exploration Technologies (SET) which in future will be sending privately built rockets into space. As this is the last year for the aging space shuttles to carry out their missions to International Space Station (ISS) so there is a need for NASA to maintain the ISS and keep it running, so to do so they need some back up which can fill the gap till the time their Ares project is finalized.