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Mar 22, 2017

SpaceX Working with NASA

SpaceX is working with NASA scientists to identify landing spots on Mars for its Red Dragon spacecraft.
Elon Musk, who founded the US-based aerospace company in 2002, wants to send rovers and experiments to the Red Planet starting in 2018.

Mar 21, 2017

Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Returns to Earth

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft returned to Earth, marking the end of the company’s tenth contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.
The Dragon cargo craft returned to the Earth with approximately 3,600 pounds of science experiments and other gear from space station.

Mar 11, 2017

Chandrayaan-1 Detected Orbiting the Moon

As per NASA, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, India's first lunar mission and which was generally considered lost, has been detected orbiting the moon.
The discovery was made by NASA scientists with new technological application of interplanetary radar.
Chandrayaan-1 was launched successfully on October 22, 2008.
As per ISRO, the satellite has made more than 3400 orbits around the moon until the mission was concluded when the communication with the spacecraft was lost on August 29, 2009.

Mar 09, 2017

Gravitational Waves Pioneer Dies

Ronald Drever, one of the architects behind the first detection of gravitational waves, has died aged 85.
Ronald Drever's role in the detection of gravitational waves was recognised in a stream of awards last year, including the Gruber, Breakthrough and Kavli Prizes.
He co-founded the LIGO project, and was a co-inventor of the Pound–Drever–Hall technique for laser stabilisation.

Mar 07, 2017

Evidence Revealing Mars' Water-rich History

Mars has been the number one target for astronomers and scientists when it comes to searching for life on other planets.
Researchers have come across evidence that could have implications for the possibility of life on the planet, saying that Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought.
A new research reveals that a mineral found in Martian meteorites – which had been considered as proof of an ancient dry environment on Mars – may have originally been a hydrogen-containing mineral that could indicate a more water-rich history for the Red Planet.

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