Category: Science

Florida: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth safely after their Crew 9 Dragon Spacecraft splashdown safely off the coast of Florida. A SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship carrying the two astronauts, alongside American Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, streaked through the atmosphere before deploying parachutes for a gentle splashdown…

Chennai: The Centre has recently accorded approval for the ambitious Chandrayaan-5 mission to study the Moon, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said. At an event to felicitate him for taking over as the Chairman of the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation, Narayanan said that unlike the Chandrayaan-3 mission which carried the 25-kg rover ‘Prayagyaan’, the Chandrayaan-5…

New Delhi/Bengaluru: ISRO on Thursday said it has accomplished de-docking of the SpaDeX satellites, clearing the way for future missions, such as exploring the moon, human spaceflight and building its own space station. Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences, and Science and Technology Jitendra Singh announced the successful de-docking of satellites in a post…

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday congratulated ISRO for the successful de-docking of the SpaDeX satellites, saying the country’s scientists had proven yet again that even the sky was not the limit. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said it accomplished the de-docking of the SpaDeX satellites, clearing the way for future…

New Delhi: India is “most likely” undercounting heat-related deaths due to a lack of robust data but the government is now improving surveillance to minimize the impact of extreme conditions on health, former WHO chief scientist and health ministry advisor Soumya Swaminathan has said. In an interview with PTI on the sidelines of TERI’s World…

Ahmedabad: Former ISRO chairman S Somanath has highlighted the cost-effectiveness of India’s space programmes and noted that for the same satellite and share of work, the country will incur five times less expenditure compared to the US for an upcoming mission. He was referring to the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. The joint National…

Lund (Sweden): Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a kaleidoscope of colours. From the stunning feathers of male peacocks to the vivid blooms of flowers, the story of how Earth became colourful is one of evolution. But how and why did…

Bengaluru: Former ISRO chairman S Somanath said on Thursday that the commercial space sector should seriously get into manufacturing, as the space agency is looking to have launchers manufactured by industries. “… it would help even if some large monopoly companies set up manufacturing facilities, which are currently lacking in India,” said Somanath. He was…

Bengaluru: A day after ISRO successfully carried out the ignition trial of the indigenous CE20 cryogenic engine, its Chairman and Secretary of the Department of Space V Narayanan on Saturday said that the test would be advantageous to missions. “We want to restart the cryogenic stage in the flight for mission advantages. So, we recently…