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The spacecraft Cassini is pictured above Saturn’s northern hemisphere prior to making one of its Grand Finale dives in this NASA handout illustration obtained by Reuters August 29, 2017. NASA/Handout via REUTERS

NASA Officials Meet the End of Cassini’s Voyage With Applause, Tears

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 16, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

London- US space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will end its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, transmitting data until the final fiery moment. Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit...

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Team Indus’s core leadership team, including fleet commander Rahul Narayan, fourth from left. PHOTO: AXIOM RESEARCH LABS

Indian Startup Plans to Land on the Moon by 2018

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 5, 2016 | Business, Technology

London – The Team Indus Company has announced that it will launch its mission to the moon in a year’s time, as it takes part in a Google-funded competition to become the world’s first-ever privately held company to make a soft landing there. A group of more than...

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A Proton rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on March 14, 2016 (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

European-Russian Spacecraft Takes off Seeking Life on Mars

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 14, 2016 | Technology

Europe and Russia launched a spacecraft in a joint mission in the hunt for life on Mars blasted off on Monday for the start of a seven-month unmanned space journey to the Red Planet. The heavy-lift Russian rocket, part of the ExoMars program, blasted off from the...