Nasa spacecraft reaches Jupiter’s orbit
As Juno approached its target, it fired its rocket engine to slow itself down and gently slipped into orbit...
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ArchiveISS completes 100,000th orbit of Earth
“Today the ISS made its hundred thousandth orbit around Earth,” the mission control centre based in the Moscow region said in a statement...
Its “anniversary orbit” lasted from 7:35am to 9:10am Moscow time, mission control said...
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ArchiveSpaceX gets nod to put 12,000 satellites in orbit
WASHINGTON: SpaceX got the green light this week from US authorities to put a constellation of nearly 12,000 satellites into orbit in order to boost cheap, wireless internet access by the 2020s...
Elon Musk’s company has six years to put half in orbit, and nine years to complete the satellite network, according to FCC rules...
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WorldIran says it will send 2 satellites to orbit amid US concern
Iran’s president on Thursday said the Islamic Republic soon will send two new satellites into orbit using Iran-made rockets, despite United States concern the launch could help further develop its ballistic missiles...
Previously, Iran has sent several short-lived satellites into orbit over the past decade, and in 2013 launched a monkey into space...
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ArchiveIndia's Moon probe enters lunar orbit
India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon...
After four weeks of interstellar travel, the spacecraft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) as planned, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement...
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ArchiveIran again fails to put satellite into orbit amid US worries
An Iranian rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, state television reported, the latest setback for a programme the United States claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile programme...
A Simorgh, or “Phoenix”, rocket couldn’t put the Zafar 1 communications satellite into orbit, however, due to a low speed, Iranian state TV reported...
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ArchiveUAE’s ‘Hope’ probe successfully enters Mars orbit
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ “Hope” probe on Tuesday successfully entered Mars’ orbit, making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission...
“To the people of the UAE, to the Arab and Muslim nations, we announce the successful arrival to Mars’ orbit...
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TechIn a first, SpaceX to send all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
Can four people who've never been to space before spend three days spinning around Earth after only a few months of training? That's the challenge SpaceX has set for itself when it launches its first tourism mission on Wednesday, the first time a crew of exclusively private citizens will orbit our planet...
SpaceX hasn't disclosed what it cost him, but the price tag runs into tens of millions of dollars...
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TechBoeing’s Starliner space capsule launched on key test flight to orbit
About 30 minutes after lift-off, the Starliner reached its intended preliminary orbit, after separating from the upper-stage Atlas V rocket and flying on its own power to a planned rendezvous with the space station...
The capsule’s flight to orbit on Thursday was not without a hitch...
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ArchiveSpaceX rocket sends first water survey mission into orbit
The Falcon 9’s upper stage, carrying the satellite, reached orbit within nine minutes...
The mission’s payload, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, or SWOT, was released to its own starting orbit about 850 kilometres above the planet less than a hour after launch...
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TechIndian lunar landing mission enters moon’s orbit
India’s latest space mission entered the moon’s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country’s second attempted lunar landing, as its cut-price space programme seeks to reach new heights...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that Chandrayaan-3, which means “Mooncraft” in Sanskrit, had been “successfully inserted into the lunar orbit”, more than three weeks after its launch...
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ArchiveFlour price set to rocket in Punjab amid high wheat price
LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
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ArchivePresident Alvi links price hike to global rise in fuel price, dollar’s rate
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
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ArchivePakistan fails to capitalise on oil price dip: ADB
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that Pakistan’s economy has failed to achieve its growth potential in spite of benefiting from lower prices of oil which accounts for almost a third of its imports...
The ADB approved $1 billion for projects in Pakistan to improve transport and trade...
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ArchiveFixing Pakistan's water woes beyond regulating the price of bottled water
But even if Diamer-Bhasha reaches its funding goal, then what?The court summoned yesterday the CEOs of all bottled water companies to present data on the price of extracted water and the revenue they have made selling it...
We can question whether major bottlers are cartelised, and whether quality audits are functioning well, but let’s think here instead about what the price of water should be...
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