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SpaceX Marks Its 27th Commercial Resupply Mission

According to report, the Falcon 9 rocket was lifted off at around 8.30 p.m. from Launch Complex 39A on Florida’s space coast

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NASA Announces Final Extension Of ISS Cargo Contracts

According to the report, the extensions will cover all missions from January 2027 to December 2030, earlier NASA made a similar announcement intending to end the ISS program and transition to commercial space stations by 2030

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Chandrayaan-3 Lander Undergoes A Successful Test

The lander underwent the Electro-magnetic Interference or Electro-magnetic Compatibility (EMI/EMC) test between 31 January and 2 February at the U R Rao Satellite Centre

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US Senate Commerce Committee Urges New NASA Authorisation Bill

Addressing the Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation Conference, Maria said, there is a need for a multiyear authorization even though Congress has included a NASA authorization act in the ‘CHIPS and Science Act’, a broad science and technology bill, enacted last year.

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Chinese Orbiting Space Station Astronauts Complete Space Walk

During the seven-hour extra-vehicular activity, the China Manned Space Agency said Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu carried out a number of tasks, including installing extension pumps outside the Mengtian laboratory module and the third member of the Shenzhou-15 mission, Deng Qingming, assisted the station from inside

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India To Launch Human Space Flight 'H1' Mission In Q4FY24: Jitendra Singh

The uncrewed ‘G1’ mission is targeted to be launched in the last quarter of 2023 followed by the second uncrewed ‘G2’ mission in the second quarter of 2024

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India Will Soon Have Satellite Based Quantum Communications Systems -- ISRO Chairman K. Sivan

K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO & Secretary, Department of Science, says the space agency is ready to embrace a new chapter in space -- to build/ launch satellites & payloads in collaboration with Indian space startups. It aims to have clusters of small satellites for precision observation. In the wide ranging conversation with BW Businessworld’s Manish Kumar Jha, Sivan talks about the space draft policy, Chandrayaan 2 payloads (new findings), Gisat1, Mission Gaganyaan (unmanned), NavIC, SAR and collaboration with other leading space agencies like US space Agency NASA & Russia’s Roscosmos.

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Japan Aerospace ready to launch H3 rocket this year

Japan Aerospace ready to launch H3 rocket this year

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Japan's JAXA Collaborates With ISRO For The Smart Lander For Exploring Moon

Japan's JAXA collaborates With ISRO for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon. India and Japan under the agreement are working on the joint lunar polar exploration that will be launched in early 2020s.

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Interstellar: Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator

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China Launches Longest Manned Space Mission

China launched its longest manned space mission on Monday, sending two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard an space laboratory that is part of a broader plan to have a permanent manned space station in service around 2022

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