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Axiom-4 mission put on hold: ISRO prioritizes astronaut safety
New Delhi: ISRO on Friday asserted that safety and mission integrity were its top priority as NASA and Axiom Space said they were working to address an issue related to a leak…
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Elon Musk calls for ISS deorbit within two years
New Delhi: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday again recommended deorbiting the International Space Station within the next two years, much ahead of the planned deorbit in 2031. NASA plans to deorbit…
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Prayers for success as Indian astronaut Shukla heads to Space Station
Lucknow: Special prayers were offered in Lucknow on Tuesday for the success of the thrice-postponed lift-off of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, on board SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket, that would propel him into history…
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Starlink gets nod for satcom services as telecom dept issues LoI
New Delhi: Starlink, backed by billionaire Elon Musk, on Wednesday received government nod for satcom services in India, as Department of Telecommunications issued a letter of intent (LoI) to it. Starlink is…
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SpaceX launch site approved as new city of Starbase
McAllen: The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase. A vote Saturday to formally organise Starbase as a city was…
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Watch: Dolphins welcome astronauts back to earth
Florida: Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, have returned to Earth after a lengthy journey that turned a planned eight-day mission into…
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Astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore safely return to earth after 9 months
Cape Canaveral: Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with…
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SpaceX loses contact with spacecraft during latest Starship mega rocket test flight
Texas: Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test…
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Last-minute problems with SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship forces delay of latest test flight
Washington: Last-minute problems forced a launch delay Monday for SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship, attempting a comeback following an explosion on the last test flight. The countdown got down to the 40-second mark,…
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NASA’s 2 stuck astronauts take their first spacewalk together
Cape Canaveral: NASA’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in. Indian-origin commander Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore floated out…
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SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers from US, Japan to space
New Delhi: Elon Musk-led SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched two private lunar landers from the US and Japan to space. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience lifted off aboard a SpaceX…
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SpaceX aces Starship 6th test flight, fails to catch booster
New Delhi: Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully aced the sixth test flight of its huge Starship rocket early on Wednesday. However, it failed to repeat the “booster catch”. The huge 30-foot-wide,…
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SpaceX successfully launches ISRO’s 4,700 kg communication satellite from US
Bengaluru: The country’s latest communication satellite, GSAT-N2 was successfully launched by billionaire Elon Musk-founded SpaceX from Cape Canaveral in the US, ISRO’s commercial arm NSIL has said. The 4,700kg GSAT-N2 High-throughput (HTS)…
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Musk’s SpaceX wins USD 733 million launch contract from US Space Force
Washington: Elon Musk-run SpaceX has won a USD 733 million, eight-launch contract from the US Space Force. The US Space Force’s Space Systems Command issued Launch Service Task Orders (LSTOs) totalling USD…
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NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to lift off on Monday: SpaceX
New Delhi: After being stalled due to hurricane Milton, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission aims to fly to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in search of life on Monday, SpaceX has said. Europa Clipper…
