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Sharmila Kuthunur

Sharmila Kuthunur

Sharmila Kuthunur is a freelance science writer based in India. A computer engineer by profession, she found her love for astronomy in one of Carl Sagan's books - The Pale Blue Dot and has been hooked ever since. She has a fondness for old school astronomy and spends almost all of her free time either gazing up at the sky or reading about it. She is also the Contributor for Astronomy magazine since October 2017. She loves putting thoughts into words and talking about all things space.

Russian Soyuz docks with ISS on 2nd attempt

Posted by in Space | 8 months ago
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After the Soyuz MS-14’s first automated approach to the ISS was aborted due to a malfunction, the spacecraft has now docked safely at the station’s Zvezda module. It carries supplies for the crew and a humanoid robot.

India’s Chandrayaan-2 is 2 weeks away from its moon landing

Posted by in Space | 8 months ago
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The spacecraft is slowing down for its final orbit, with its next maneuver scheduled for August 28. It’s due to land September 7. Details about the mission, plus Chandrayaan-2’s first image of the moon, here.

Animation of Chandrayaan-2 around Earth

Chandrayaan-2 is on its way to the moon

Posted by in Space | 8 months ago
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Following a series of successful maneuvers, India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has shifted trajectories and is now on its way to the moon.
Chandrayaan-2's first images

Update on India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission

Posted by in Space | 8 months ago
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Tomorrow, the spacecraft will shift from its orbit of Earth toward a path to the moon.

When our Milky Way merged with an ancient dwarf galaxy

Posted by in Space | 8 months ago
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Analysis of measurements via the Gaia space telescope – of star positions, brightnesses and distances – has let astronomers probe a merger 10 billion years ago between the primitive Milky Way and a dwarf galaxy called Gaia-Enceladus.
Mission sequence Chandrayaan-2

Chandrayaan-2 successfully completes 3rd orbit-raising maneuver

Posted by in Human World | Space | 9 months ago
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India’s 2nd moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully carried out its 3rd orbit-raising maneuver on Monday. It will soon enter trans-lunar orbit, with the goal of landing on the moon on September 7.

Climbing robot LEMUR against a starry sky background.

Meet a family of NASA space robots

Posted by in Human World | Space | 9 months ago
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NASA engineers are working on a new family of space robots that can roll, climb, and use artificial intelligence to navigate around obstacles in rough terrains on other worlds. Meet the family, here.