Adventures of Space

Luka Parmitano of ESA( European Space Agency)captured  our beautiful planet Earth in all its natural splendor, from 250 miles above.He is currently living and working on ISS(international space station) The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Established in 1975 and headquartered in Paris, ESA has a worldwide staff of about 2,200 in 2018 and an annual budget of about €5.72 billion in 2019. The  International Space Station  ( ISS ) is a  space station  (habitable  artificial satellite ) in  low Earth orbit . The  ISS programme  is a joint project between five participating space agencies:  NASA  ( United States ),  Roscosmos  ( Russia ),  JAXA  ( Japan ),  ESA ( Europe ), and  CSA  ( Canada ). The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements.

The Cygnus cargo craft from @NorthropGrumman lifted off on time nov 2 at 9:59am ET from @NASA_Wallops in Virginia to resupply the Exp 61 crew with over four tons of science, supplies and hardware early Monday. Antares, known during early development as Taurus II, is an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation and the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau to launch the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's COTS and CRS programs. The  Cygnus  spacecraft is a single-use American automated cargo spacecraft developed by Orbital Sciences and now built and launched by Northrop Grumman as part of  NASA 's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) developmental program. image sourcs:NASA

Team ISRO have found Argon gas at the atmosphere of moon.ISRO's CHANDRAYAAN-2 mission launches orbiter in moon's orbit. CHACE-2 payload aboard the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter  detected argon gas in the atmosphere.It is at the altitude of approx. 100 km.It is Argon-40 in lunar exophere. (Chandrayaan-2 is India's second lunar exploration mission after Chandrayaan-1. Developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, the mission was launched from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre on 22 July 2019 at 2.43 PM IST to the Moon by a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III.) orbiter lander pragyan rover