At 6:07 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur used the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 to grapple the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet monitored Cygnus systems during its approach. The spacecraft were flying about 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Lisbon, Portugal, at the time of…
Satellites are launched into space to perform a specific mission, and are specially designed to perform the required function. A satellite is a man-made object that is placed in orbit to fulfill a specific mission. Also known as man-made artificial satellites, they are different from natural moons, such as the moon. Different moons are classified…
A giant laboratory, weighing about 85 elephants and the size of a large football field, orbits the earth at an altitude of 400 km above our heads. The time it takes for this laboratory to orbit the Earth is just over an hour and a half; You know, the highlights of the International Space Station…
The V-2 was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. The liquid-propellant rocket engine used to launch the missile was developed in Germany as a “defense weapon” during World War II. Essentially, it was a weapon used to attack the Allies instead of the Allied forces attacking German cities. With the vertical launch of the…
The first two stages were successful. But in the third stage, using a cryogenic engine, something went wrong. The ISRO said the mission was not a complete success. The satellite was launched from Sriharikota at 5.43 am today. The launch vehicle was the GSLV-F10. The first two stages were successful. However, the failure occurred during…
