The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet\’s equator called Jezero. \”The good news is the spacecraft, I think, is in great shape,\” said Matt Wallace, the mission\’s deputy project manager. Engineers at Nasa\’s mission control in California erupted with joy when the confirmation of touchdown […]
China\’s Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered the orbit above Mars\’ polar regions on Monday, moving closer to the red planet, the China National Space Administration said. The spacecraft activated its 3,000-Newton-thrust orbital-control engine at 5pm to conduct an orbital plane change maneuver to enter polar orbit with a perigee of about 265 kilometres above the
President Joe Biden has endorsed the effort to return to the Moon that was initiated under his predecessor Donald Trump, BBC reported. There had been speculation over the direction the new administration might take on the Artemis programme. The plan would see the next man and the first woman land on the lunar surface in
The US space agency\’s Perseverance rover is now just three weeks from arriving at Mars. The robot\’s current distance to the Red Planet is still some 4.5 million km (3 million miles), but that gap is closing at a rapid rate. The biggest, most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to land on another planet, the Nasa robot is
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) on Saturday authorised the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine shot for emergency use in Pakistan, making it the first vaccine get local approval, dawn.com reported. “Drap granted emergency use authorisation to AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine,” Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Healh Dr Faisal Sultan told Reuters. The country has also pre-booked
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