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Now enjoy fine dining at the edge of space in a stratospheric balloon
- Zephalto, a space balloon startup, plans to offer Michelin-star quality cuisine to passengers on trips to the stratosphere in a stratospheric balloon.
- By 2025, Zephalto plans to take passengers to near space in a balloon, replicating the experience of a Michelin-starred restaurant, starting at $132,000 ( ₹1 crore approximately) per person.
- The balloon will rise to 25 kilometers above the earth’s surface, providing a view of the curvature of the Earth in the blue line.
- French designer Joseph Dirand will create the minimalist interiors for the stratospheric balloon, which will also include Wi-Fi for passengers.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX's Starship Rocket launch postponed just minutes before liftoff
- SpaceX has postponed the first-ever launch of its Starship rocket, designed to send astronauts to Mars, due to a frozen pressurant valve in the booster stage.
- The uncrewed flight was scheduled to lift off from Boca Chica in Texas at 08:20 local time, but was called off just minutes before the launch time.
- The Starship rocket is the most powerful rocket ever built and is seen as a critical part of SpaceX's plans for human space exploration and interplanetary travel.
- Elon Musk confirms the delay of the Starship launch through a tweet, citing the issue with the pressurant valve.
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What is Starship, the biggest & most powerful rocket set to be launched by SpaceX today?
- Today, SpaceX is set to attempt the first test flight of its Starship vehicle, which is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built.
- The Starship is comprised of two parts - the Super Heavy rocket booster and the Starship spacecraft, which can house both cargo and crew.
- With a height of 120 meters, the rocket is designed to transport humans and cargo to the Moon and Mars, marking a significant milestone in the history of space exploration.
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From rooms to red sand, NASA unveils 'Mars' habitat on Earth
- NASA has unveiled a new Mars-simulation habitat in Houston, Texas, in which volunteers will live for a year at a time to test what life will be like on future missions to Mars.
- The habitat, called "Mars Dune Alpha," includes four small rooms, a gym, and a lot of red sand.
- It also has a vertical farm to grow salad, a room dedicated to medical care, an area for relaxing, and several workstations.
- NASA plans to monitor the physical and mental health of volunteers to better understand resource use on Mars.
- The habitat was 3D-printed, and NASA sees it as a potential technology for building habitats on other planetary or lunar surfaces.
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11 teams to represent India at NASA Rover Challenge 2023
- 11 Indian teams, including three high school groups, set to compete at NASA Rover Challenge 2023 against 61 others worldwide.
- Teams to design, develop, build, and test human-powered rovers for challenging terrain at NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
- Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai is one of the team to participate in the competition for the first time with team name MOVIS inspired by Indian civil engineer Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.
- NASA Rover Challenge 2023 to be held from April 20-22 at the American agency's space & rocket centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Richard Branson's rocket company files for bankruptcy
- Richard Branson's rocket company, Virgin Orbit, has filed for bankruptcy in the US after failing to secure new investment.
- The company halted operations weeks ago and announced last week that it would cut 85% of its workforce.
- Earlier this year, a Virgin Orbit rocket failed to complete its first-ever satellite launch from UK soil.
- Virgin Orbit launches rockets to send satellites into space from modified Boeing 747 planes and was founded in 2017 as a spin-off from Sir Richard's space tourism company Virgin Galactic.
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Astronomers discover flattest explosion in space
- A rare flat explosion, known as a Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT), has been discovered by scientists over 180 million light-years away.
- FBOTs are an extremely rare class of explosion, and this latest discovery is only the fifth one ever recorded.
- The disc-like explosion has baffled scientists who are still trying to understand how bright FBOT explosions occur.
- This discovery was made by chance, and scientists used the Liverpool Telescope and polaroid glasses to measure the polarisation of the collected data and map the edges of the blast.
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Indian-origin engineer to head NASA's new Moon to Mars office
- Amit Kshatriya, an Indian-origin engineer, has been appointed as the head of NASA's new Moon to Mars Programme Office.
- The new office will oversee NASA's human exploration activities at the Moon and Mars for the benefit of humanity, as directed by the 2022 NASA Authorization Act.
- Kshatriya has a vast experience in the space programme and has previously served as a software engineer, robotics engineer, and space station flight director.
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SpaceX rival Isar raises $168 million from Porsche SE and others
- German space firm Isar Aerospace secures $168 million in new financing round from Porsche SE and HV Capital.
- Isar Aerospace's Spectrum launch vehicle, designed to launch small and medium-sized satellites into orbit, set to take maiden flight later in 2023.
- Porsche SE to join Isar Aerospace's supervisory board following successful financing round.
- The company plans to launch its Spectrum rocket, which can carry small and medium-sized satellites, from a Norwegian launch pad in the second half of 2023.
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Get Ready to Power Down: 'Earth Hour' kicks off tonight at 8:30 PM
- Earth Hour is an annual global event that takes place on the last Saturday of March, and this year, it falls on March 25th.
- Millions of people from over 190 countries and territories are expected to participate.
- The event encourages individuals to turn off all lights and electrical appliances for one hour, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm local time, to raise awareness of climate change challenges and energy conservation.
- The World Wide Fund for Nature and its partners initiated Earth Hour in 2007 as a symbolic lights-out event, encouraging people globally to switch off their lights and spend an hour doing something positive for the planet.
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SpaceX launches 56 Starlink satellites and lands rocket on droneship
- SpaceX successfully launched its 20th mission of the year, sending 56 Starlink internet satellites into space.
- The Falcon 9 rocket used in the mission made a successful landing on a ship at sea, marking its 10th launch and landing.
- The Starlink satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit (LEO) approximately 65 minutes after launch.
- SpaceX has launched over 4,000 Starlink satellites so far and plans to deploy even more, with permission for up to 12,000 and applications for an additional 30,000.
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NASA to study Saturn's moon Titan for signs of life
- NASA is preparing to launch Dragonfly, an 8-bladed rotorcraft in 2027, to study Saturn's largest moon Titan in-depth and search for the building blocks of life.
- Cassini spacecraft had previously captured an image of the Saturn-facing side of Titan, which is tidally locked and faces the gas giant in the same way as Earth's Moon.
- Saturn's largest moon Titan, discovered 368 years ago by Galileo, has an earthlike cycle of liquids raining from clouds, flowing across its icy surface, filling lakes and seas, and evaporating back into the sky.
- Titan's thick atmosphere suggests that the moon formed early in our solar system's history.
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Cancer cells sent to International Space Station in effort to understand childhood tumor
- The International Space Station will receive cancer cells as part of a study to understand an incurable childhood tumor.
- The research aims to shed light on diffuse midline glioma, which is the same cancer that led to the death of Karen Armstrong, daughter of US astronaut Neil Armstrong.
- By studying how the cancer cells spread in microgravity, researchers hope to gain new insights into the disease and potential treatment options.
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Bengaluru's Pixxel wins contract to develop space tech for US surveillance body
- Pixxel, a space tech startup based in Bengaluru, has secured a five-year contract from the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
- The contract entails providing hyperspectral imagery (HSI) for intelligence and surveillance activities, utilizing technical HSI remote sensing capabilities via modeling and simulation and data evaluation.
- NRO specializes in space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and Pixxel's services will aid in furthering these activities for the US government.
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This rare 'Asteroid' can make everyone on Earth a billionaire
- The rare metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche, located between Mars and Jupiter, could potentially make everyone on Earth a billionaire if its precious metals were divided equally.
- The asteroid is estimated to contain a core of iron, nickel, and gold worth $10,000 quadrillion.
- NASA is planning a mission to explore Psyche to study its composition and history and to determine whether it could be the core of a shattered planetesimal.
- Psyche was named after the Greek goddess of the soul and was discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis.
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