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Japan’s SLIM Resumes Moon Mission After Glitch
Japan's SLIM spacecraft, which encountered a power supply glitch after landing on the Moon on January 19, is operational again. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) resolved the issue caused by solar panel…
Astrophysicist Umut Yıldız Leaves NASA For Türkiye
Astrophysicist Umut Yıldız has terminated his indefinite contract with NASA and relocated to Türkiye, joining Plan-S company in Ankara. With a decade-long tenure at NASA's 'Jet Propulsion Laboratory,' Yıldız, now working as both an…
SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule Docked With ISS
The Dragon spacecraft, which was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, with four astronauts as part of the "Axiom-3 space mission," docked with the International Space Station after about 36 hours. The Axiom-3 team will be…
Japan’s Spacecraft SLIM Lands on Moon
Japan's unmanned spacecraft called SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon), which was sent into orbit in September to collect topographic information such as the shape of moon craters, made a soft landing on the moon yesterday at around…
NASA’s Attempt on Landing on Moon Failed
The Peregrine spacecraft that was launched by the US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) on January 8 to land on the moon failed to reach its target. Astrobotic engineers said that the reason for the failure of the mission was that a…
Successful Launch of Falcon-9 Rocket with Türkiye’s First Astronaut Aboard
The commencement of the Axiom-3 space mission, featuring Türkiye's inaugural astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, has been officially announced. The Falcon-9 rocket, carrying Gezeravcı into orbit aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, achieved a…
China Unveils World’s Deepest Physics Lab for Dark Matter Research
A groundbreaking physics laboratory, the Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility (DURF), recently opened in China's Jinping Mountain, Sichuan Province. This lab, situated 2,400 meters below ground, is now the world's…
Turkish Armed Forces to Establish Space Command
The Turkish Ministry of National Defense has launched the Space Command within the Air Forces Command of the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), extending its capabilities beyond surveillance and reconnaissance to encompass…
China’s Sends Youngest Astronaut Team to Space
The Shenzhou-17 manned space vehicle, carrying the three youngest astronauts in China's space history, was launched to the space station from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 11:14 local time. Shenzhou-17, which successfully settled…
Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk for Hardware Installation
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub carried out an 8-hour spacewalk from the International Space Station to install hardware in the Nauka module. Despite a slight delay in deploying the satellite system,…
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