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12 Apr

Don’t miss NASA’s first 4K livestream from space this month

Washington: In the first-ever live 4K video stream from space, NASA astronaut and Expedition 51 commander Peggy Whitson will take viewers more than 400 km off the Earth to the International Space Station on April 26. The broadcast will take place at 1:30 p.m. EDT during a session at the 2017 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas. "The US space agency is a pioneer in the application of advanced media -- including 4K. By streaming real-time video that captures images four times the resolution of current HD technology, NASA is enhancing its ability to observe, uncover and…

28 Feb

SpaceX to fly 2 private tourists around moon in 2018

Washington: US aerospace major SpaceX has announced plans to fly two private citizens on a week-long trip around the moon next year. The two individuals approached SpaceX for the trip and they have "already paid a significant deposit" to do a moon mission, the company said in a statement on Monday. "Fly me to the moon ... Ok," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted after the announcement was made. Lift-off will be from the Kennedy Space Center's historic Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral in Florida -- the same launch pad used by the Apollo programme for its lunar missions. "Like the Apollo astronauts…

09 Feb

SpaceX to launch 10th resupply ship to space station next week

Washington: US aerospace major SpaceX has targetted February 18 for the launch of its 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is targetted to liftoff atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. "Targeting February 18 for Dragon's next resupply mission to the @Space_Station ? our 1st launch from LC-39A at @NASA's Kennedy Space Center," the Hawthorne-headquartered company tweeted on Wednesday. "The Expedition 50 crew trained today for the robotic capture of the SpaceX Dragon and studied how the brain adapts to living in space. Three crew…

02 Feb

Unmanned Japanese probe fails to remove space debris: Report

London: An experimental Japanese probe has failed in its mission to clear space junk from the Earths orbit, media reported. While Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's H-II Transfer Vehicle Kounotori 6 (HTV6), launched on December 9, 2016 successfully delivered supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), it failed to achieve one of the mission objectives of removing space debris. The space cargo ship left the ISS on January 28 and re-entered the atmosphere on Monday, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has confirmed. Following undocking, the scientists expected to eliminate space debris on low-earth orbits with the Kounotori Integrated Tether Experiments (KITE), an on-orbit…