SpaceX successfully launched Northrop Grumman’s upgraded Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, sending more than 5 tons of critical supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The delivery includes spare parts, nitrogen, oxygen, research material, and a variety of holiday treats for the crew such as clams,…
WELLINGTON: A satellite backed by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been lost in space while carrying out an important climate change mission, New Zealand officials said Wednesday.Designed to measure greenhouse gas emissions with “unprecedented resolution”, the MethaneSAT space probe was also funded by Wellington and the US-based Environmental Defense Fund. Plagued with technical problems,…
SpaceX on Monday successfully launched 26 Starlink satellites from California. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after dusk from Vandenberg Space Force Base.The mission lifted off at 8:36 pm PDT (11:36 pm EDT / 0336 GMT June 17) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The launch used a relatively…
CAPE CANAVERAL (FLORIDA): Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s lift-off to Indian space history will have to wait. As D-Day dawned in India, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX announced that the Axiom-4 launch had been indefinitely deferred, citing a LOX (liquid oxygen) leak in the Falcon-9 rocket that engineers were unable to troubleshoot immediately.Axiom-4 was to start its journey…
