JAKARTA – Scientists are developing a very light spacecraft to explore the Planet Venus, and can adapt to foreign environments other than Planet Earth. Proposed in 2014 by Northrop Grumman, the project dubbed Venus Atmospheric Manoeuvrability Platform (VAMP) will deploy a probe from Earth to explore Venus’ upper atmosphere. The spacecraft, designed like a balloon, … Read more
loading… Russia’s Soyuz rocket that offers space tourism. PHOTO/TASS MOSCOW – After a decade-long hiatus, Russia relaunch ambitious bid to dominate the tourism industry outer space developing in the world. Russia is trying to pique the interest of the world’s excited billionaires. Russia is also ready to compete with the United States (US) and China. … Read more
GenPI.co – NASA made history after its spacecraft managed to touch the sun. Reported from the science.nasa.gov page, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft belongs to NASA fly through the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona, and sample the particles and magnetic field there. It is known, this historic achievement actually occurred in April 2021. However, NASA … Read more
ILLUSTRATION. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Becomes a Spacecraft That Touches the Sun. Writer: Arif Budianto KONTAN.CO.ID – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is the first spacecraft to touch the sun. The spacecraft, which has been probing the Sun for a long time, is at its closest of 5.3 million miles. Recently, history noted that NASA’s Parker … Read more
Jakarta – Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft belonging to NASA, setting a new record after completing perihelion or its 10th closest orbit to the Sun. On November 21, 2021, the space rover is closest to the surface Sun which is 8.5 million km. This makes it the closest spacecraft to survive past the Sun. Not … Read more
JAKARTA – NASA’s spacecraft, which was originally only tasked with observing the Moon, has managed to get a very beautiful view of the planet Saturn. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) NASA has been circling the Moon since 2009. But the images NASA just shared from LRO show just how amazing the planet Saturn is, complete with … Read more
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Liputan6.com, Jakarta – NASA launches unmanned aircraft (space probe) Lucy successfully from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Saturday, October 16, 2021 local time. Space probe Lucy will carry out its 12-year mission to study asteroids near Jupiter, the Trojan. Thus quoted from The Verge, Sunday (17/10/2021). Furthermore, space probe Lucy is an unmanned spacecraft launched aboard … Read more
JAKARTA – The US X-37B has carried out several missions. One of its longest missions was to fly in orbit for 780 days. The agenda of this plane has been a well-kept secret for more than 20 years. Built by Boeing, the X-37, aka Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) started as a NASA project in 1999. … Read more
JAKARTA – The European Space Agency (ESA) released a nearby photo Mercury planet sent by the European-Japanese BepiColombo space explorer. This photo was sent by BepiColombo after three years on an unmanned mission to Mercury. ESA said the plane arrived on the night side of the planet Mercury, so the resulting photo was not optimal. … Read more
Only two spacecraft have ever flown close to Mercury. REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, PARIS — Only two spacecraft have ever flown close to the planet Mercury. Now the BepiColombo mission, a joint European-Japanese science venture, is on track to orbit and observe the closest planet to the sun in 2025. The attempt just completed the first flyby Mercury … Read more