by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
India’s second lunar mission, was successfully launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (formerly Sriharikota Range) SDSC SHAR on July 22, 2019. The 3,840 kg spacecraft was launched by GSLV MkIII-MI. This was the first operational flight of the GSLV MkIII. The...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
NASA launched its Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) on December 7, 2021 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The tech demo experiment embarked on a two-year series of experiments to test how optical communications links could help...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
In June 2022, NASA launched a CubeSat weighing just 25 kg on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The CubeSat CAPSTONE, short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched on April 18, 2018 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS was placed in a unique operational orbit–a highly eccentric, 2:1 lunar resonance orbit of 1,08,400 km by 3,76,300 km at an inclination of 37 degrees....
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) was launched on May 5, 2018 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It covered the 485-million-km long journey in almost seven months to land on a broad equatorial...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 22, 2023 | Astronomy and Space Research
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft was launched in February 2020 by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The mission is expected to study the...
