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The Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) announced on Thursday that China's first solar sail, SIASAIL-I, has successfully verified a number of key technologies in orbit, a big breakthrough in China's solar sail development. The solar sail developed by the institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences based in Northeast China's Liaoning province is a spacecraft powered by the reflected light pressure of the sun on the spacecraft's membrane. Because it does not consume additional chemical fuel, a

Индийская орбитальная станция обнаружила посадочный модуль "Викрам" индийской лунной миссии Chandrayaan-2, который должен был совершить посадку на Луну в субботу, но перестал выходить на связь. Станция не только установила его местоположение, но и сделала снимок, сообщили представители Индийской организации космических исследований (ISRO), передает информагентство ANI. В настоящий момент командный пункт пытается установить связь с модулем, однако пока эти попытки не увенчались успехом. Модуль "В #Викрам #индия #ЛунныйМодуль #КосмическиеНовости #isro #Chandrayaan2

The second de-orbiting manoeuvre of Chandrayaan -2 spacecraft was successfully carried out early Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, inching towards achieving a historic soft-landing on the lunar surface. The nine-second de-orbiting or retro-orbiting manoeuvre was executed at 3:42am using the onboard propulsion system, the space agency said. "With this manoeuvre, the required orbit for the Vikram Lander to commence it descent towards the surface of the Moon is achieved," ISRO #Chandrayaan2 #isro #LunarOrbitInsertion #IndianSpace

Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system. The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet) for six minutes before it hit the surface. It then bounced a couple of times -- reaching a height of 17 #mascot #AsteroidProbe #ryugu