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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - March 2018

Mar 2018

Sep 15, 2018

First Private Passenger to Fly Around Moon

SpaceX announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the Moon using its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a massive launch vehicle that is being designed to carry people into deep space. SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle, an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.

Sep 14, 2018

India to Launch UK Satellites

As per reports, Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will put into orbit two foreign satellites, NovaSAR and S1-4 together.

The two satellites belong to Surrey Satellite Technologies Ltd (SSTL), UK, under commercial arrangement with Antrix Corp Ltd�"the commercial arm of ISRO.

Sep 09, 2018

Dawn Mission Nears End

After 11 years of gathering breathtaking imagery, and performing unprecedented feats of spacecraft engineering, Dawn - NASA's space probe for the asteroid belt - is drawing to a close due to lack of a key fuel.

Launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in September 2007, Dawn was majorly tasked to study two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt Vesta and Ceres, which when combined, make up 45% of the mass of the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft is likely to run out of a key fuel known as hydrazine.

Sep 07, 2018

ISRO Working on Smaller Launch Vehicles

ISRO is working on building smaller launch vehicles that will carry satellites weighing 500 to 700 kg to up to 500 kilometres from the earth's surface.
The small launch vehicle will be different from the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), ISRO's trusted workhorse, and should take only 72 hours for integration.
ISRO will need 50-60 such vehicles every year.

Sep 04, 2018

NASA Plans 45-day Effort

NASA would begin a 45-day campaign of active efforts to restore communications with the Mars rover Opportunity once skies above the rover cleared to a sufficient level.

The rover has been out of contact since early June when a major dust storm deprived the rover of solar power.

As per reports, Opportunity did not respond to communications attempts after that 45-day campaign, it likely meant the spacecraft had suffered a mission-ending malfunction.

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