Florida: The space tourism race is booming, but one company is hoping to carve out a niche as “the only carbon-neutral, zero-emission way” to travel to the edge of space. Space Perspective plans to take passengers up to 100,000 feet for suborbital adventures in a pressurized capsule suspended from an enormous high-tech version of a […]
WASHINGTON: The first all-private team of astronauts comprising three businessmen and a former astronaut, arrived yesterday at the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX rocket, Reuters reported. The Ax-1 mission commander, Spanish-American Michael Lopez-Alegria, along with Canadian Mark Pathy, American Larry Connor and Israeli Eytan Stibbe, in their blue and black uniforms, exited the […]
CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s next-generation moon rocket began a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey out of its assembly plant en route to the launch pad in Florida for a final round of tests in the coming weeks that will determine how soon the spacecraft can fly, Reuters reported. Rollout of the 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration was undertaken by an Arab nation, is returning a number of unique observations of Martian dust storms, providing an unparalleled depth of information and insight into the way in which these storms evolve and spread across huge swathes of the planet. Hope provides a powerful platform […]
Three thousand kilograms of space junk has just crashed into the moon at frightening speeds of 9,334 kilometres per hour as per calculations. It’s is said that the crash will send moon dust and flying rock into space. Sadly, telescopes will not be able to see the new crater, so it would be months before […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), the first Arab interplanetary mission, celebrates on 9 February the first anniversary of its successful entry into Mars’ orbit and the gathering of a unique trove of Mars observations by the Hope Probe. One year on, the autonomous spacecraft has achieved historic milestones as part of its mandate to […]
DUBAI: The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary mission undertaken by an Arab nation, has released the second tranche of observations to a global audience of scientists, researchers, educationalists and enthusiasts. Over 76 GB of raw data has been uploaded to the EMM Science Data Centre and is available athttps://sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae as part of the second batch […]
WASHINGTON: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse of infant galaxies in the early stages of the universe, arrived at its gravitational parking spot in orbit around the sun, nearly a million miles from Earth. With a final five-minute, course-correcting thrust of its onboard rocket, Webb reached its destination […]
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket, is expected to launch on December 25. The rollout took about two hours to complete, according to NASA. Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket, with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on board, was rolled out to the […]
Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star’s magnetic fields. “Parker Solar Probe ‘touching the Sun’ is […]
DUBAI: Emirates Post Group (EPG) recently launched the “Postcards to Space” initiative in partnership with “Club for the Future”, a private foundation established by Blue Origin, “UAE Space Agency”, “Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre” (MBRSC), and “AzurX”. The initiative, which is in line with EPG’s celebrations of the UAE’s Golden Jubilee, was unveiled to increase […]
