Soyuz, a rocket with the most launches in history will soon take three crew members astronaut Loral O’Hara and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub to the International Space Station. It was today rolled out to the pad in advance whose image NASA has shared on its official X account. The Soyuz MS-24 mission will be launched on September 15, 2023, using Soyuz MS spacecraft atop a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle, from Launch Complex 31/6, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Soyuz rocket was rolled out to the pad today in advance of launching @NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara and cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub to the @Space_Station Friday, Sept. 15. – More : https://t.co/W88kV09ILT pic.twitter.com/Puwn57kO5k

— NASA HQ PHOTO (@nasahqphoto) September 12, 2023

Earlier this mission was planned to happen on March 16, 2023, but due to an issue in the docked Soyuz MS-22, the plan was dropped. Further, the mission was assigned to the Soyuz MS-24. If we talk about the Soyuz spacecraft, it first flew in the 1960s. Its external appearance is not said to have changed over time but the internal has been upgraded significantly.

Oleg Kononenko would be the commander of this mission and he has earlier performed two spacewalks. It will be his fifth spaceflight and will break the record of Gennady Padalka by spending 916 days in space. Flight Engineer Nikolai Chub and flight engineer Loral O’Hara would be traveling to space for the first time.

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An amazing rare celestial event is going to occur tonight. Wednesday’s night sky will be lit up by Super Blue Moon. For those who don’t know, it has nothing to do with color but since the 1940s the second of the two full moons that appears in a month is usually called as Blue Moon. And because we have already seen a supermoon once this August the second supermoon will be called a Super Blue Moon.

Now coming on to the supermoon, it is seen when the Moon is both full and at or near its closest point to Earth. The phenomena of a supermoon is seen because the moon’s orbit is elliptical around Earth but not circular. So there are times when the Moon is farther at apogee and times when it’s closest at perigee. The distance between Earth and the Moon in perigee and apogee ranges from around 220,000 miles (350,000 kilometers) to 253,000 miles (408,000 km).

Today’s Super Blue Moon will reach its peak at 08:37 PM (EDT) and there will be maximum brightness at this time. The moon will not only appear 14 percent bigger but 30 percent brighter also than a Micro moon. People from all across India can witness this rare phenomenon tonight if the weather allows.

Last time Blue Supermoon event took place in 2018 and won’t occur till 2037 so don’t forget to witness it.

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August 23- the iconic day on which Chandrayan-3 successfully landed on the moon. Well, the landing was definitely a historic moment not only for ISRO but also for all the Indians as India is now the fourth country to successfully land on the moon. The success of this mission was celebrated by the whole country immensely. Well, it has just been a few days to this big day and ISRO is now heading to achieve one more milestone for the country.

Indian Research Organisation (ISRO) is now all set to launch India’s first-ever solar observation space mission- Aditya L1. This mission will be the first space-based Indian mission to study the sun. It will be launched by ISRO on 2 September 2023 and will take 109 days to reach 1.5 million Km from Earth and its life span will be more than 5 years.

PSLV-C57/Aditya-L1 Mission:

The launch of Aditya-L1,
the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun , is scheduled for
September 2, 2023, at
11:50 Hrs. IST from Sriharikota.

Citizens are invited to witness the launch from the Launch View Gallery at… pic.twitter.com/bjhM5mZNrx

— ISRO (@isro) August 28, 2023

Objective of Aditya L1 mission

As officially revealed by ISRO the objectives behind the Aditya L1 mission are-

• Study of Solar upper atmospheric (chromosphere and corona) dynamics.
• Study of chromospheric and coronal heating, physics of the partially ionized plasma, initiation of the coronal mass ejections, and flares
• Observe the in-situ particle and plasma environment providing data for the study of particle dynamics from the Sun.
• Physics of solar corona and its heating mechanism.
• Diagnostics of the coronal and coronal loops plasma: Temperature, velocity and density.
• Development, dynamics, and origin of CMEs.
• Identify the sequence of processes that occur at multiple layers (chromosphere, base, and extended corona) which eventually leads to solar eruptive events.
• Magnetic field topology and magnetic field measurements in the solar corona.
• Drivers for space weather (origin, composition, and dynamics of solar wind.

These multiple objectives will help ISRO to have a thorough understanding of how the sun’s activities affect the space environment.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking forward to launching the Aditya-L1 mission in the first week of September 2023. According to the latest update by Indian Aerospace Defence News – IADN, the mission will be launched on the 2^nd or 4^th of September 2023.

ISRO recently gained success and marked history on the Chandrayaan-3 mission. You can check our coverage about the same here. 

In their next set of endeavors, ISRO will launch the Aditya-L1 mission in the first week of September. Aditya-L1 is the first Indian Space mission meant to observe the sun. Adiitya-L1 is the name of the coronagraphy spacecraft, meant to carry out the mission of the space name. The Aditya-L1 mission aims to study the solar atmosphere, solar magnetic storms, and the impact it has on the environment around the Earth.

The Aditya-L1 will be launched aboard a PSLV-XL launch vehicle and will be inserted in a halo orbit around the Lagrange Point L1, between the Earth and the Sun. It will cover a journey of 109 Earth days to reach the halo orbit around the L1 point.

The concept of Aditya dates back to January 2008, when it was first conceptualized. Later an experimental budget of Rs 3 Crore was allocated, in the financial year 2016-2017. The total allocated cost of the budget to the mission, as of July 2019 was Rs 378.53 crore.

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Chandrayaan 3, India’s third lunar expedition achieved success and marked history on 23 August 2023. The lunar mission under the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chandrayaan programme started its journey on 14 July 2023, i.e., it was launched on this day. Subsequently, the lander and rover landed on the Moon’s south pole region on 23 August.

The journey of Chandrayaan 2 gained success after notable trials and tribulations. In the year 2019, ISRO launched the Chandrayaan 2, whose lander, Vikram,

experienced a crash or harsh landing due to its high velocity. The Chandrayaan 2 had on board a Launch Vehicle Mark-3, which consisted of an orbiter, a lander and a rover. The lander was supposed to land on the lunar surface on September 2019, to deploy the Pragyan rover.

After the events of Chandrayaan 2, ISRO proposed Chandrayaan 3, collecting all necessary learnings from the Chandrayaan 2 mission. Chandrayaan 3’s objective at the foremost was to land a lander safely on the lunar surface. Now that it has happened, ISRO will look into the driving capabilities of the rover on the Moon’s surface. Researchers will now study the materials available on the Moon, through experiments, and analyse the composition of the moon.

The Chandrayaan 3 had on board an LVM3-M4 rocket.

ISRO placed the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft into an orbit around the Moon on 5 August.

In August, the lander, Vikram, parted to carry forward its own mission.

Finally, on 23 August 2023, the lander processed a braking manoeuvre when it was 30 km above the lunar surface. 11.5 minutes after that, the lander was just 7.2 km away from the Moon’s surface. Then the lander maintained its altitude for about 10 seconds and stabilized itself with eight small thrusts. It then acquired a vertical position from its initial horizontal position.

The descent then slowed down until it was 150 metres above the surface. After that, it hovered above the lunar surface for 30 seconds before marking an optimal landing spot. It eventually, touched down the lunar surface at 12.32 UTC.

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A video regarding a giant asteroid that has crashed into the atmosphere over India has started to be shared widely on the internet.

Here’s what we know about it.

“A giant asteroid has crashed into the atmosphere over India”?

The video that is now being shared mentioning that “a giant asteroid has crashed into the atmosphere over India” is not expected to be true as there are no official reports or updates anywhere stating such an occurrence. The video is being shared on the Twitter platform and most of the tweets are being shared with this same statement mentioned above. The video is also being shared with other taglines as well on other social media and messaging platforms, but it should be noted that in anywhere the video it isn’t mentioned where or when the asteroid crashed into the atmosphere.

A giant asteroid has crashed into the atmosphere over #India. pic.twitter.com/eX4L06Fy4V

— Jack Straw (@JackStr42679640) August 14, 2023

Recently, the Perseid meteor shower was seen in the sky during the night of Saturday, the 12th of August, and the next day morning on the 13th of August 2023, and an article published by The Hindu mentions a person who was able to click six images of the Perseid meteor shower. A picture captured by him is given for reference below.

The Perseid meteor shower occurs annually during the months between July and August. The meteor shower occurs when the earth passes through the debris trails that originate from the comet named 109P/Swift-Turtle and the reason why it is called Perseid is because, it emerges from the direction of the constellation, Perseus. The meteor shower is clearly visible in the northern hemisphere and, as per a report, the countries of Austria, Turkey, Croatia, and Spain were able to witness this year’s Perseid meteor shower.

In order to capture the image or the video of the Perseid meteor shower, the person who is capturing should make sure that there is no light pollution and note, the person who managed to capture the meteor shower was only able to get the image on 6 photos of the 150 photos captured.

The video that is being shared is not at all similar to those images captured and, again, the authenticity of the video and the news is under question.

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A 46,000-year-old worm was found frozen 40 meters below the surface in the Siberian permafrost. This worm was in a dormant state known as cryptobiosis, according to Teymuras Kurchalia.

He is an emeritus professor at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden and one among the scientists who were involved in the research. Anastasia Shatilovich, one of the researchers, revived two of the worms at the institute by rehydrating them with water.

The organisms in a cryptobiotic state can endure the complete absence of water or oxygen and will be able to withstand high temperatures as well as freezing or extremely salty conditions. They will remain in a life-or-death situation in which the metabolic rates decrease to an undetectable level, he added.

Later, she transported around 100 worms to labs in Germany for further analysis. After hydrating the worms, the scientists conducted radiocarbon analysis of the plant material in the sample. This was to establish that the deposits had not been hydrated since between 45,839 and 47,769 years ago.

The researchers named the species of these worms that belong to Panagrolaimus kolymaenis. This is a newly found name because the researchers didn’t know whether the worm was a known species. This research was published on July 27 in the journal PLOS Genetics.

In addition to the radiocarbon dating, the researchers confirmed that they could successfully induce the worms to enter and exit the dormancy-like state of cryptobiosis using special preparatory cues.

Some scientists are skeptical of the findings of this research. This was also the case when the specimens were first reported in 2018. At that time, outside researchers expressed concerns that the analyzed worms might be modern contamination.

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ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) took to Twitter and updated about the Chandrayaan-3’s status. They reported through the Twitter post that the health of the spacecraft is normal. According to the Twitter update dated 15 July 2023, 9.06 pm; the “spacecraft is now at 41762 km x 173 km orbit.

Chandrayaan-3 Mission update:
The spacecraft's health is normal.

The first orbit-raising maneuver (Earthbound firing-1) is successfully performed at ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru.

Spacecraft is now in 41762 km x 173 km orbit. pic.twitter.com/4gCcRfmYb4

— ISRO (@isro) July 15, 2023

On July 14, 2023, the LVM3M4 vehicle successfully launched Chandrayaan-3 into orbit. We earlier covered this for you, which you can check here. 

In recent updates, ISRO took to Twitter and informed that the first orbit-raising maneuver (Earthbound firing-1) was successfully performed at ISTRAC/ISRO, Bengaluru. ISRO scientists stated in additional reports that the operation commenced at around 12.05 pm and was successfully executed within 11-and-a-half minutes. The goal of the Earthbound maneuver was to increase the spacecraft’s apogee, i.e., the farthest point from the Earth. The altitude was thus increased and the Chandrayaan-3 was taken further away from the Earth.

On Sunday, tomorrow, scientists will carry out a minor burning of onboard propulsion systems, if all goes accordingly as planned until then. This will be done so to increase the perigee (closest point to Earth) of the spacecraft. The spacecraft will thus be pushed to about 220 km from its present position.

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When Chandrayaan-2 did not achieve the desired soft landing on the surface of the moon in the year 2019, not only scientists but Indians were also disappointed. This year Chandrayaan-3 has given hope to many as the rocket has been launched successfully. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has officially announced the successful launch.

LVM3 M4/Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
LVM3 M4 vehicle successfully launched Chandrayaan-3 into orbit.

— ISRO (@isro) July 14, 2023

The Chandrayan-3 mission was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 2:35 PM on 14 July, Thursday. The spacecraft was launched aboard India’s heaviest rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) on a journey to the moon. It is said that the landing on Moon is expected to be by August end. Till now ISRO has also mentioned that” Chandrayaan-3, in its precise orbit, has begun its journey to the Moon. The health of the spacecraft is normal.”

If ISRO pulls this mission successfully, India will join an exclusive list of just three other countries- the US, the erstwhile Soviet Union, and China that have managed a soft landing on the Moon. The scientists with this mission aim to master the technology of soft landing on the surface of the Moon.

Let’s wait for more updates from ISRO about the journey of Chandrayaan-3 and hope for positive news coming our way.

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Scientists have closely been studying Proxima Centauri B since its discovery in 2016. They are curious to know about its potential to sustain life in the future. Recently researchers found that under a wide range of conditions, Proxima Centauri b can sustain enormous areas of liquid water on its surface.

The Proxima Centauri B mass is 1.3 times Earth’s mass and it is a red dwarf star. It takes 11 days to go around its parent star.

“The major message from our simulations is that there’s a decent chance that the planet would be habitable,” said Anthony Del Genio, a planetary scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, told LiveScience.

When scientists modeled a hypothetical atmosphere on Proxima Centauri B in 2016 they found that the star-facing hemisphere of the exoplanet might be baked while the other side froze. So according to the finding, only a circle of the warm sea might exist on Proxima Centauri b.

But the recent simulation was carried out by including a dynamic, circulating ocean able to transfer heat from one side to another. The researcher Del Genio told LiveScience “Even though the night side never sees any starlight, there’s a band of liquid water that’s sustained around the equatorial region,”. Researchers ran different simulation scenarios to study the effect of giant continents, thin atmospheres, different atmospheric compositions, and changes in the amount of salt in the global ocean. Almost in all the scenarios, they observed the ocean at some part of its surface.

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