22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – a device that looks like a machine straight out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... billion on its Apollo missions, India spent approximately $140 million. Indeed, even the budget for Hollywood movie Avengers: Endgame, was more than double at an estimated $356m. "The best is yet to come in our space programme...
21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... first indication of whether we were successful in collecting a sample will come on October 21 when we downlink the back-away movie from the spacecraft,” Moreau said. “If TAG made a significant disturbance of the surface, we likely collected a lot...
23 October 2020
First 4G cellular network on the Moon to be built by Nokia
... company or governmental agency wanting to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, and although television shows and movies can make communicating with people in space look easy, it isn’t. Interference, latency, bandwidth restrictions and high...
11 December 2020
A US company is aiming to race rovers on the Moon next year
...-definition footage of the event back to Earth, say Lunar Outpost. “No, this isn’t the premise of a science fiction movie. It’s happening. Soon,” say the company on their website. The final design of the moon racers will be selected...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... fragments before it hits Earth is known as disruption and was a scenario made popular by the film Armageddon; a disaster movie that centres around a crew of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with...
