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NASA teams up with Pentagon for atomic spaceships

TEHRAN, Jan. 25 (MNA) – The US space agency announced on Tuesday that it was reviving a 1960s partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), aiming to develop a nuclear-powered spaceship for travel to the moon and Mars.
2023-01-25 18:00
Dead NASA satellite to crash to Earth

TEHRAN, Jan. 07 (MNA) – A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere on Sunday evening (January 8).
2023-01-07 13:20
Perseverance rover drops 2nd sample tube on Mars

TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) – NASA announced on Friday that Perseverance successfully dropped its second rock sample tube on the Martian surface.
2022-12-24 15:20
NASA calls off Artemis 1 moon rocket launch for second time

TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – NASA called off its latest attempt to launch the groundbreaking Artemis 1 moon rocket on Saturday after failing to stem a fuel leak discovered during tanking, media have reported
2022-09-03 22:31
Webb delivers deepest infrared image of Universe yet

TEHRAN, Jul. 12 (MNA) – The international NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has delivered the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the distant Universe so far.
2022-07-12 11:15
NASA detects huge Marsquake that shatters all past records

TEHRAN, Apr. 25 (MNA) – NASA's InSight robot, which is designed to understand the interior of Mars, has detected a Marsquake that's shattered all records.
2022-04-25 23:00
Hubble telescope spots Earendel, most distant star on record

TEHRAN, Apr. 01 (MNA) – Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record.
2022-04-01 13:30
American astronaut to return to Earth on Russian spacecraft

TEHRAN, Mar. 15 (MNA) – Despite Ukraine-Russia tensions, plans remain in place to bring NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei back to Earth as planned aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the end of the month.
2022-03-15 11:20
Russia warns it can destroy NATO satellites

TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) – Russia has warned it can obliterate NATO satellites with its new 'Star Warrior' technology to render the West's GPS-guided missiles.
2021-11-23 19:00
NASA announces rare health-related SpaceX launch delay

TEHRAN, Nov. 02 (MNA) – NASA has announced a rare health-related delay in its SpaceX rocket launch of 4 astronauts to the Intl. Space Station, the second postponement of the mission in a week, citing an unspecified medical issue with one of the crew.
2021-11-02 12:30
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 7th flight on the Red Planet

TEHRAN, Jun. 10 (MNA) – NASA’s ambitious flying drone has now completed its seventh flight on the red planet, and NASA confirms the robot encountered no issues as it traveled to yet another new landing zone in Jezero Crater.
2021-06-10 13:20
VIDEO: NASA's Mars helicopter set record on its 3rd flight

TEHRAN, Apr. 26 (MNA) – NASA's mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, moving farther and faster than ever before, with a peak speed of 6.6 feet per second.
2021-04-26 12:10
VIDEO: NASA successfully flies small helicopter on Mars

TEHRAN, Apr. 20 (MNA) – A small robotic helicopter named 'Ingenuity' made space exploration history on Monday when it lifted off the surface of Mars and hovered in the wispy air of the red planet.
2021-04-20 11:53
VIDEO: 3 astronauts successfully launched to space station

TEHRAN, Apr. 10 (MNA) – Russian space agency Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei successfully launched to the space station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2021-04-10 12:45
China, Russia unveil joint plan for lunar space station

TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – Russia and China have reportedly unveiled plans for a joint lunar space station.
2021-03-10 17:37
VIDEO: NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover sends first footage

TEHRAN, Feb. 20 (MNA) –The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers).
2021-02-20 11:53
VIDEO: Intl. space station battery upgrade completed

TEHRAN, Feb. 02 (MNA) – NASA astronauts completed the second in a pair of spacewalks on Tuesday, installing a European science platform and finishing up a long series of battery replacements outside the International Space Station.
2021-02-02 23:00
Iranian researcher finds reason of disorders in space travels

TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) – Prolonged presence in space leads to some health problems that reason of which have now been discovered by Iranian researcher, Afshin Beheshti, a member of NASA's Ames Research Center.
2020-11-30 11:40
SpaceX’s Starship SN4 launch fails after rocket test

TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA) – SpaceX had just conducted yet another static fire test of the Raptor engine in its Starship SN4 prototype launch vehicle on Friday when the test vehicle exploded on the test stand in Boca Chica, Texas.
2020-05-30 23:30