Archive for the ‘Space’ Category
By TechnoGadge on November 1, 2008 at 5:24 am
The Phoenix Mars Lander is losing solar-electric power because of shorter daylight hours and dust storms on planet Mars, NASA announced it on Thursday. The lander has communicated with the Mars Odyssey orbiter, but the communication was not proper. So, NASA thinks that Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode, in which the lander stops non-critical activities and awaits further instructions from the mission team.
Weather conditions at the Phoenix landing site in the north polar region of Mars have deteriorated in recent days, with …
Category: Space | Tags: Mars, Phoenix Lander, Space
By TechnoGadge on October 22, 2008 at 6:39 am
On Wednesday, India launched its first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, marking a major milestone in the country’s space programme and a new step to assert its power in space. The lift-off took place in cloudy skies at 6:22 am (0052 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, a barrier island off the coast of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. It was launched by Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) own PSLV-C11rocket.
Chandrayaan-1, which means “Moon Craft” in Sanskrit, is on a two-year orbital mission …
Category: Space | Tags: Chandrayaan-1, India, Space
By TechnoGadge on October 20, 2008 at 5:25 am
On Sunday, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT. It was dropped from under the wing of an L-1011 aircraft. The spacecraft separated from the third stage of its Pegasus launch vehicle at 1:53 p.m. and immediately began powering up components necessary to control onboard systems. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic interactions taking place in the outer solar system.
During the two-year mission, IBEX’s main objective is to discover …
Category: Space | Tags: IBEX, NASA, Space
By TechnoGadge on October 15, 2008 at 6:44 pm
US space agency NASA said on Tuesday that it will make an attempt to revive the space telescope ‘Hubble’ which is idled since September 27 by an equipment failure. NASA engineers plans to send commands to the telescope early on Wednesday to switch over to a backup computer that has not even been turned on since before the telescope arrived in orbit 18 years ago.
In order to complete the switchover, NASA will have to complete a safe mode reboot session to safely reroute …
Category: Space | Tags: Hubble, NASA, Space
