Psyche has a core of iron & nickel exposed to space, a rarity among asteroids. Mission could give insight into collisions that created asteroids & Earth in early days of solar system.
US space agency's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, dropped off capsule containing sample in Utah desert. Asteroid Bennu could potentially collide into Earth a few centuries later.
After touchdown, the capsule laid nose-down on the sandy floor of the Utah desert, a red-and-white parachute that slowed its high-speed descent resting just feet away after detaching.
Success of the mission would make it the third asteroid sample, and by far the biggest, to ever return to Earth for analysis, following two similar missions by Japan's space agency.
Indian industry optimistic about growing US-India collaboration in space, as underlined again by PM Modi & President Biden in their bilateral on G20 sidelines.
Russia said a special interdepartmental commission had been formed to probe the loss of Luna-25 craft. Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years, failed on 19 August.
Chandrayaan-3 became the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon. The attempt comes days after Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed.
New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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