The Spaceflight Journal

This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. It looks toward the planet's night side, lit by reflected light from the rings, and shows the location at which the spacecraft would enter the planet's atmosphere hours later.

Launched aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur on October 15, 1997, Cassini was active in space for more than 18 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn, studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on July 1, 2004.

Cassini's end involved a series of close Saturn passes, approaching within the rings, then an entry into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, 2017, to destroy the spacecraft.

Image Source : https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21895/cassinis-final-image

Google Lunar XPRIZE extends deadline to March 31, 2018.

Additionally today, XPRIZE and Google announce that $4.75M in additional Milestone Prize money will be available to Google Lunar XPRIZE finalist teams for achieving technological milestones along the way to the Moon.

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About the Google Lunar XPRIZE -

The $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE is an unprecedented competition to challenge and inspire engineers and entrepreneurs from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. To win the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a privately funded team must successfully place a robot on the Moon’s surface that explores at least 500 meters and transmits high-definition video and images back to Earth.
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Source -
http://lunar.xprize.org/press-release/google-lunar-xprize-offers-475-million-teams-who-complete-space-milestones-way

More links -
http://lunar.xprize.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lunar_X_Prize

Blast from Past

Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage.

F-1 engine is the most powerful single-nozzle liquid-fueled rocket engine ever flown, burning 2,578 kg of oxidizer and fuel (1,789 kg of liquid oxygen and 788 kg of RP-1), generating a whopping 6.7 MN of thrust.

Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

A rare photo of fathers of India's space programme and nuclear programme, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai and Dr. Homi Bhabha at Thumba. Thumba is a hub of ISRO for launching sounding rockets.

Today is 98th Birth Anniversary of an scientist , innovator and father of India's space programme, Vikram Sarabhai

ISRO Develops Optical Imaging Detector Array for Hyperspectral Imaging Applications - ISRO ISRO is endeavouring to enter the domain of operational hyperspectral imaging from earth orbit. To find a suitable detector array for the proposed Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite’s (HySIS) payload in terms of performance and delivery schedule for meeting the project requirements, a detailed survey…

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