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Nasa picks Lockheed Martin to build low-noise supersonic plane
04 Apr 2018
The experimental aircraft that is expected to take to the skies in 2021 will have a top velocity of 1.5 times the speed of sound, or about 1,600 kilometers at an altitude of 55,000 feet
NASA’s new supersonic plane to be much quieter than Concorde
15 Feb 2018
NASA plans to design and create a new supersonic plane in the next few years that will not produce a 'sonic boom' while breaking the sound barrier
Ozone layer berhole is shrinking: NASA
06 Nov 2017
NASA finds India’s lost Chandrayaan-1 orbiting Moon
10 Mar 2017
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used the 70-meter antenna, DSS-14, at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, to locate Chandrayaan-1 and NASA’s own Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
23 Feb 2017
NASA telescope finds 7 Earth-size planets around single star
23 Feb 2017
Of the seven Earth-sized planets observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny, nearby, ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1, three are firmly in the habitable zone, says NASA
NASA experts conceptualise “Mars Ice Home” to help astronauts meet challenges of Martian environment
30 Dec 2016
John Glenn, first American in space, dies at 95
09 Dec 2016
John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the US Senate, died on Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95
NASA finds more evidence of water on Jupiter’s moon Europa
27 Sep 2016
The team has found that Europa’s surface breaks up now and then due to the massive gravity of Jupiter and massive plumes of water shoot out about 125 miles above Europa before they fall back down to the surface
Mars Orbiter finds more carbon dioxide ice at poles
12 Jul 2016
The surface in some dusty parts of Mars, becomes so frigid overnight that an extremely thin layer of carbon dioxide frost appears to form, which vapourises in the morning
NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupitor
05 Jul 2016
The Juno spacecraft entered a pole to pole orbit of Jupitor after a five-year solar powered spaceflight from Earth that began on 5 August 2011
Nasa’s Juno spacecraft to start orbiting Jupitor on 5 July
05 Jul 2016
NASA’s Juno spacecraft enters a pole to pole orbit of Jupitor at 8 am (IST), after a five-year solar powered spaceflight from Earth to study the solar system’s largest planet
NASA developing experimental electric plane
21 Jun 2016
NASA sends expandable habitat to Space Station
09 Apr 2016
The expandable habitat will allow investigators to use microgravity conditions to assess the impact of antibodies on crew and grow protein crystals that will aid the design of new drugs
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