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Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.
Aditya-L1 blasts off from the launchpad at Sriharikota island on a voyage to the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned Moon landing. IMAGES
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launches the USSF-44 mission to orbit from a launch complex at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. IMAGES
The new Maserati Grecale SUV is “The Everyday Exceptional”.Grecale strikes the right balance between versatility, elegance, performance and innovation, guaranteeing performance, comfort and safety, all at the same time. These features are combined with off-road capabilities and uncompromising driving pleasure.Developed at the Maserati Innovation Lab in Modena, the new SUV is produced at the Cassino plant.Grecale is a range within the range, the Trident brand’s fullest ever.An extremely wide range of engines is available: conventional internal combustion, hybrid and, in a year’s time, Grecale will also be the first full-electric SUV in Maserati history.Three versions will be rolled out at launch: GT, powered by a four-cylinder mild hybrid engine capable of delivering 300 hp; Modena, with a four-cylinder 330-hp mild hybrid engine; and the powerful Trofeo, equipped with a high-performance 3.0L 530-hp petrol V6 based on the Nettuno engine fitted to the MC20.
The new Maserati Grecale SUV is “The Everyday Exceptional”.Grecale strikes the right balance between versatility, elegance, performance and innovation, guaranteeing performance, comfort and safety, all at the same time. These features are combined with off-road capabilities and uncompromising driving pleasure.Developed at the Maserati Innovation Lab in Modena, the new SUV is produced at the Cassino plant.Grecale is a range within the range, the Trident brand’s fullest ever.An extremely wide range of engines is available: conventional internal combustion, hybrid and, in a year’s time, Grecale will also be the first full-electric SUV in Maserati history.Three versions will be rolled out at launch: GT, powered by a four-cylinder mild hybrid engine capable of delivering 300 hp; Modena, with a four-cylinder 330-hp mild hybrid engine; and the powerful Trofeo, equipped with a high-performance 3.0L 530-hp petrol V6 based on the Nettuno engine fitted to the MC20.
The first all-civilian crew to be sent into Earth's orbit enters the Dragon Crew capsule atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which is launching from NASA's Kennedy Center in Florida. Chris Sembroski, Dr Sian Proctor, Jared Isaacman and Hayley Arceneaux ride Tesla vehicles to the launch pad and take in the view before getting strapped into the capsule. IMAGES