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Nov 30, 2021

Skyroot Test-fires India's 1st Privately Built Cryogenic Rocket Engine "Dhawan-1"

Skyroot Aerospace, a space technology start-up based in Hyderabad, successfully test-fired Dhawan-1, India's first privately developed fully cryogenic rocket engine. This will power the upper stages of its upcoming Vikram-2 orbital launch vehicle. The rocket engine Dhawan-1 is named after Satish Dhawan, an Indian rocket scientist.
Dhawan-1 is a completely 'Made-in-India' cryogenic engine, developed using 3D printing with a superalloy. The engine is fuelled by liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen—a high-performance, low-cost, and clean rocket fuel.

Nov 29, 2021

Russian Docking Module Arrives at ISS

A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module was successfully connected with the International Space Station (ISS), following a two-day space journey.
The new spherical module is named Prichal (Pier) was docked with the orbiting outpost.
It comprises of six docking ports.
The module would allow potential future expansion of Russian segment of the space station.
It has secured to the docking port of new Russian Nauka (Science) laboratory module.
Prichal nodal module is a Russian spacecraft and a part of International Space Station. The module was approved in 2011 and was finally launched in November 2021.

Nov 27, 2021

K2 Mission Discovers 366 New Exoplanet Candidates

Using photometric data from NASA's Kepler/K2 mission, astronomers have identified 747 unique planet candidates and 57 multiplanet systems; of these candidates, 366 have not been previously identified, including one multiplanet system and one system with two short-period gas giants.

Nov 25, 2021

NASA launches DART Spacecraft on a Mission to Smash into Asteroid

NASA launched a spacecraft with one simple mission: Smash into an asteroid at 15,000 miles per hour.
The mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, left Earth to test whether slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid can nudge it into a different trajectory. Results from the test, if successful, will come in handy if NASA and other space agencies ever need to deflect an asteroid to save Earth and avert a catastrophic impact.
NASA is crashing DART into an asteroid to test, for the first time, a method of planetary defense that could one day save a city, or maybe the whole planet, from a catastrophic asteroid impact.

Nov 23, 2021

NASA Set to Launch a New Laser Test to Speed Up Space Communications

US space agency NASA is all set for a new era of laser services, after the mission was delayed for two years. NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) is ready for launch on December 4.
It will ride to space on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
LCRD will showcase the unique capabilities of optical communications to increase bandwidth for communicating in space while reducing size, weight, and power requirements. LCRD will fly as a payload on Space Test Programme Satellite-6 (STPSat-6), the primary spacecraft of the Space Test Programme 3 (STP-3) mission for the Department of Defense. The LCRD will be NASA's first end-to-end laser relay system, sending and receiving data over invisible infrared lasers at a rate of approximately 1.2 gigabits per second from geo-synchronous orbit to Earth.
With data rates 10 to 100 times higher than traditional radio frequency systems, laser communications systems will provide future missions with extraordinary data capabilities.

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