Russian scientists at Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute have developed a laboratory prototype of a high-power plasma electric rocket engine, capable of accelerating charged particles to 100km/s100 km/s100 km/s using a magnetic plasma accelerator. This engine, designed for deep space, aims to reduce Earth-to-Mars travel time to 30–60 days, with a flight-ready model planned by 2030. Key … Read more
The ISRO Gaganyaan mission is India’s first human spaceflight program, aiming to send a crew of three astronauts into a 400 km orbit for a 3-day mission and return them safely to Earth. Preparations involve developing critical technologies, conducting unmanned test flights, and training astronauts. The first uncrewed test flight is targeted for the fourth quarter of 2025, … Read more
The latest update on astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla indicates that he entered quarantine with his three crewmates in preparation for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) launch, which was scheduled for June 10, 2025, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to carry the crew to the International Space Station … Read more
He will become the first Indian astronaut to go to the ISS, and the first Indian to go to space in the last 40 years Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, a distinguished pilot in the Indian Air Force (IAF), has been handpicked as one of the four astronauts for the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) historic … Read more
After bidding their ISS crewmates farewell, the returning astronauts floated into their Crew Dragon and undocked from the Harmony module’s space-facing port early Tuesday, at 1:05 a.m. EDT. Starting at 5:11 p.m., the flight plan called for an automated seven-and-a-half-minute de-orbit thruster firing to slow the ship down for re-entry. Twenty-seven minutes later, approaching the … Read more