Crew Dragon 5 and Soyuz MS-22 are the only safe landings for humans. Everything else is filled with waste and burned up on its journey through the Earth’s atmosphere. The leak is in Soyuz MS-22. The plan is to launch Soyuz MS-23 unmanned in autonomous mode and dock with the ISS if Soyuz MS-22 is…
Russia and NASA also reported leaking from Russia’s Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station. The leak started on December 14. 3 Russian astronauts are now stuck on the ISS. Russia is now trying to launch another Soyuz crew capsule to bring them back to Earth.
Scientists have discovered the world’s most powerful pulsar star. The pulsar, named VT 1137-0337, was discovered in a star cluster 395 million light-years from Earth. The radiation from this pulsar star is strong enough to push nearby particles to the speed of light. The pulsar was discovered by the Very Large Array Sky Survey telescope…
The world’s first hydrogen-powered city train indigenously developed by China rolled off the production line in Chengdu of Sichuan Province on Wednesday. The zero-carbon train, with a maximum speed of 160 km/h, can run 600 km on one fueling.
Wernher von Braun A German, he was the forerunner of rocket/(v2) research in Nazi Germany. Later, he migrated to the United States and became the Head of Rocket and Space Technology there. Rather than an aerospace engineer, he is called a space architect because the Saturn V rocket that brought man to the moon is…
The whole world is waiting for NASA’s Orion spacecraft to return to Earth. Artemis and Orion spacecraft are a project that took many years and spent billions. The Orion probe, which went all the way to the moon and took pictures, brought a lot of valuable data back to Earth. It is expected to land…
The first “blow down” test of the trisonic wind tunnel, much awaited by the Indian scientific community, took place on 8 December 2022 at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center in Thiruvananthapuram. Trisonic wind tunnels can be used to test the aerodynamic design of rockets and re-entry spacecraft, and to evaluate the load distribution, pressure, acoustic…
Known as SKA, the original name of this radio telescope is the Square Kilometer Array. Its construction work is expected to be completed by 2028. The SKA is based at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England. One of SKA’s great quests is to trace the entire history of hydrogen, the most…
The Shanay-Timpishka is one of the tributaries of the Amazon River. Even in the non-rainy season, the 5km wide Amazon River and its surrounding forest were always full of mystery. The tribes and flora and fauna of that forest, which is more than half the size of the United States, are still not fully understood….
Aldebaran (Tau, Tauri, Alpha Tauri) is a bright orange giant star located 65 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. With an average apparent magnitude of 0.87, it is the brightest star in the constellation and one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The name Aldebaran is Arabic (Julai al-Dabaran) and literally translates as…
