The USD 488 million SPHEREx mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments. The cone-shaped SPHEREx — at 1,110 pounds (500 kilograms) or the heft of a grand piano — will take six months to map the entire sky with its infrared eyes and wide field of view.
Tag: Space
China launches Shenzhou-19 with first female space engineer on six-month mission
The Shenzhou-19 astronauts will complete in-orbit rotation with the trio currently manning and stay at the space station for approximately six months.
Sunita Williams and her colleague face trouble following detection of ‘specebug’ at space station
Sunita Williams facing spacebug challenge in space station
Australia-India space collaboration projects receive $18 million funding
India-Australia projects
India will launch communications satellite with the help of Elon Musk’s Space X
India will launch a communications satellite with the help of SpaceX, a venture led by billionaire Elon Musk, according to a statement by NewSpace India Ltd (NSIL), the commercial arm of ISRO. Space X’s Falcon-9 rocket will launch the satellite later this year, marking its first collaboration with India where Musk is also keen on […]
ISRO’s Aditya L1 travels over 9.2 lakh (.92 million) kilometres, exits Earth’s gravity
India’s solar mission, Aditya L1, has travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh km from Earth
Russian-US join team return to Earth after a year in space
US-Russian joint crew stuck in space return to Earth after a year
NASA brings first asteroid sample to Earth
NASA’s first asteroid sample lands on Earth
ISRO scientist N Valarmathi, voice behind Chandrayaan-3 rocket launch countdown, dies after suffering from heart attack
ISRO scientist N Valarmathi dies.
India’s first mission to the Sun: ISRO to launch Aditya-L1 on September 2
ISRO is scheduled to launch its Sun Mission Aditya-L1 today.
