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Solar storm to hit Earth on Monday, should you be concerned? Here’s what we know

OpIndia Staff - 12 July, 2021

On Monday (July 12), a high-speed solar storm will approach our planet at a speed of 1.6 million km/hour and affect electricity supply.

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Richard Branson beats Jeff Bezos to become the first billionaire to ride their own rocket to space

OpIndia Staff - 11 July, 2021

Richard Branson is joined by five company employees who are took off to space in a company rocket from a launchpad in New Mexico, USA

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Thousands of people want Jeff Bezos to stay in space, multiple petitions welcome the new way to ‘financial equality’

OpIndia Staff - 22 June, 2021

Thousands signed petitions to make Jeff Bezos stay in space after the Amazon founder announced that he is taking a trip beyond Earth.

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China’s ‘out-of-control’ rocket debris disintegrates over the Indian Ocean, lands near the Maldives

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2021

Notably, the rocket which is uncontrollably falling back to Earth is the same space module whose launch was gloated upon by a Chinese Communist Party body to mock India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

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‘Out of control’ Chinese rocket falling back on Earth and no one knows where it is going to crash: Details

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2021

After launching space station hub, China's Long March 5B is doing 27,600km/h in failing orbit, with eventual crash site unknown.

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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter takes maiden flight on Mars, completes first-ever powered flight on another planet

OpIndia Staff - 19 April, 2021

Ingenuity is a mini 4-pound (1.8 kg) robotic helicopter flown to Mars with the Perseverance rover.

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All you need to know about Elon Musk’s Starlink, which has begun pre-booking in India

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2021

Currently, Elon Musk's SpaceX, of which Starlink is a venture, has already sent 1000 such satellites to the Earth's orbit. In the future, the company plans to expand the number to a network of 12,000 satellites.

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Meet Swati Mohan, the Star Trek inspired MIT graduate who led the landing of NASA’s rover on Mars

OpIndia Staff - 19 February, 2021

After the completion of her PhD, Swati Mohan had joined NASA again as a Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems Engineer.

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#Inspiration4: Space X to launch its first commercial civilian mission to space in 2021. Read details

OpIndia Staff - 2 February, 2021

The civilian crew chosen for the commercial space programme will undergo training in orbital mechanics, stress testing, operating in zero gravity and microgravity.

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