Category: Solar system

Passed the Cryogenic Engine (CE-20) Eligibility Test for the Gaganyan Program

January 19, 2022

Today, (January 12, 2022), the fourth qualifying test of the Cryogenic Engine (CE-20 E9) for the Gaganyan program, 720 seconds long, was conducted at the ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) (Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu). The engine performance met the test objectives and the engine parameters were matched to the expected level throughout the test.This successful experiment is…

Color near Herschel Crater

January 12, 2022

Date – February 13, 2010 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s Saturn’s satellite Mimas’ closest flight to Herschel Crater’s illustration with a false color view shows subtle variations in Saturn’s satellite Mimas. This image shows the color variations that depend on its terrain, especially the bluish objects around Herschel Crater (130 km / 80 m wide) and the…

“Look back at that punch. Here it is. That’s the house. It’s us.

January 6, 2022

A summary of all our joys and sorrows, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, economic theories, all hunters and robbers, all heroes and cowards, all kings and peasants, all young couples in love, every mother, father, children, teacher, inventor Corrupt politicians, all “superstars” and all “high leaders”, all the saints and sinners of human history, lived…

Chinese space mission cruises ahead !!

January 2, 2022

Mars landing, Space Station 2021, China has carried out 55 space launch missions in 2021. It is first in the world, says the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Among the missions, 48 launches were conducted by the Long March series carrier rockets, all successful. The missions also included four launches by the Kuaizhou-1A carrier…

Leonard comet with double tail

January 1, 2022

On January 3, the closest Leonard comet to the Sun will begin its journey out of the Solar System forever. Until January 10, the comet will be visible through binoculars or telescopes after sunset near the southern Pisces constellation in the western hemisphere. The comet was discovered in January 2021 by scientist Gregory Leonard using…

Suicidal mission

December 27, 2021

Believing a computer with four kilobytes of RAM, 79 kilobytes of ROM memory capacity, his wife, Jane, and their children stare at a rental boat in the distance as her husband, Neil Armstrong, jumps on a SATURN V rocket to touch the moon. Taken by Ralph Morse

King of the moons

December 22, 2021

Ganymede can be described as the king of the moons. This is because it is the largest of the moons in the Solar System. What’s more, it’s larger than the smallest planet, Mercury. But since it does not orbit the sun, it does not have the glory of a planet. Ganymede, Jupiter’s seventh moon, is…