China successfully launched an experimental space mission of Friday in an effort to expand its space exploration program. The test is a first stage of a complex research program with a second episode scheduled for 2017. In three years from now, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND) will send another mission to bring back samples of Moon … [Read more...]
NASA’s Voyager I Spacecraft caught in Solar Tsunami
US space agency NASA has announced that its veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has been hit by a ‘tsunami’ triggered by the Sun. The collision comes at a time when the mission is at the advanced level into interstellar space, region beyond the heliosphere and that separates the stars. The NASA scientists had earlier in 2013 confirmed that the probe which was launched on September 5, 1977 (a few … [Read more...]
