The Greenbank Telescope is one of the largest radio telescopes in the world that can be fully rotated. The telescope is located on the Greenbank in West Virginia. Construction began in 1991 and was completed on August 22, 2000. The diameter of the dish is 100 meters. The collecting area of the telescope is 7854…
This is an excellent example of international cooperation in the field of scientific research. The station is maintained by five NASA-led space agencies. In addition to NASA in the United States, JAXA in Japan, Roscosmos in Russia, and CSA in Canada, the European Space Agency (ESA). The space exploration scene, which was once in the…
With dreams of space exploration in mind and dreams of going to Mars on the other hand, Musk set out in search of a rocket for the launch. The European Space Agency’s rocket price was unaffordable. That’s when the Russians learned that they were selling three intercontinental ballistic missiles (refurbished ICBM), three of which cost…
Anti-matter is an object that is as real as the ordinary matter that has made us all. Do not go to distant planets or galaxies to find the antimatter. It is with us. It is within us It is estimated that each of our bodies produces about 4000 antimatter particles every day. Similarly, PET scan…
Introducing WISA Woodsat, a 10x10x10 cm ‘CubeSat’ – a type of nanosatellite built up from standardised boxes – but with surface panels made from plywood. Woodsat’s only non-wooden external parts are corner aluminium rails used for its deployment into space plus a metal selfie stick. Next to it will be a straightforward LED with a…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has been launched to study asteroids known as the remains of the Solar System. Lucy set out to target asteroid clusters located in Jupiter’s orbit. The Atlas-5 rocket was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, October 16 at 3.03 Indian time. The spacecraft will be explored…
Blue Origin, a space tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launches a commercial space station. Officials said they expect the station, dubbed ‘Orbital Reef’, to be operational by the end of this decade. The promotional material released by the company claims that the station will be a ‘mixed use business park’ in space…
The image containing your name will be sent to NASA Mars in the next mission in 2026. Anyone can sign up for this for free. More than 10 million names were sent to this last Perseverance Rover. The names are affixed to micro-chips the size of a human nail and placed on a placard on…
The sperm of a rat that has been stored in space for six years has finally given birth to a baby. After being brought back to earth, the females gave birth to their offspring by injecting semen into them. The sperm, which was completely drained of water and stored in ‘dry’ form, was stored at…
The most sophisticated space telescope to date, the James Webb space telescope, the successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, will take off to space, to orbit the Earth. The telescope is equipped with a 6.5-meter mirror, infrared sensors, and includes a “sun shield” that will block light from the star itself, highlighting the objects around…
