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Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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How does India keep the cost down to reach the Moon and Mars? Last year India became the first country in the world to land near the previously-unexplored lunar south pole. India’s space projects have only an approval of £2.1bn (Rs 227bn). Their next historic mission to the Moon and sending an orbiter to Venus, and build the  first phase of India’s maiden space station and development of a new reusable heavy-lifting rocket to launch satellites. Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Moon, Mars and Solar mission costs only $74m on the Mars orbiter Mangalyaan and $75m on Chandrayaan-3. Nasa’s Maven … Continue reading Shoe-String budget for Moon and Mars expedition

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Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts abroad, as the it’s for the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people. Strainer is scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday. The capsule went up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket. The 12-minute powered ascent was indeed flawless. Commander Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission that is expected to last over a week. Starliner now has to raise itself to the orbit … Continue reading Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Sun Storms intensify to reveal more Northern Lights in two weeks

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More Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are on the way, as huge sunspot cluster that hurled energy and gas towards Earth will rotate back towards us in around two weeks. The Sun has continued since last Saturday, pumping out increased radiation – a huge solar flare on Tuesday disrupted high-frequency radio communications globally the Sun is approaching “ Solar Maximum” a point during an 11-year cycle when its activity is intense, when the Sun’s magnetic poles flip –  a process that creates sunspots that fire out material, generating space weather.  This solar cycle is the 25th since humans started systematically observing … Continue reading Sun Storms intensify to reveal more Northern Lights in two weeks

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Success emerging from failure

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Associate project director of Chandrayaan Kalpana Kalahasti, an engineer who ensured Chandrayaan -3’s triumphant touchdown on Moon  and helped India to reach the Moon. She said after a few minutes India’s space agency safely landed its first probe on the Moon on 23 August,  “We have achieved our goal flawlessly, this will remain the most memorable and happiest moment for all of us”. Only the Soviet Union, the United States and China have also achieved this feat. Chandrayaan-3 carried lifted off on 14 July, as India’s previous attempt to reach the lunar surface, the Chandrayaan-2 mission in 2019, ended in … Continue reading Success emerging from failure