As night enveloped Cape Canaveral, India entered a new dawn when the Falcon-9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2.31am ET (12.01pm IST). In the pilot seat of ‘Dragon’, the Axiom-4 space capsule that would take a four-member crew to the International Space Station on Thursday, was India’s Group Captain…
Picture courtesy: X/John Kraus After a series of delays earlier in the week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket finally lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A at 8:53 pm on Saturday. The rocket was carrying 21 starlink satellites into orbit, with 13 of them equipped with direct to cell capabilities, which is designed to enhance…
SpaceX launched the “Fram2 mission” on Tuesday (local time), marking the first human spaceflight over Earth’s polar regions.The privately funded mission will carry four astronauts on a days-long orbital journey. Fram2 is named after the famous 19th-century Norwegian ship used for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Poll Do you believe private companies will play a significant…
NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the highly anticipated Crew-10 mission today, marking a crucial step in astronaut transport to and from the International Space Station (ISS). This mission will not only send four astronauts to the ISS but also facilitate the long-awaited return of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have…