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S. Somanath, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told The Hindu that scientific missions ought to be more important in the future. Excerpts: The LVM3 launch vehicle successfully placed 36 satellites of the privately owned OneWeb consortium. However, you have recently indicated that the Chandrayaan-3 mission (to place a rover on the moon)…
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket is prepared for launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., on April 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Blue Origin on Sunday (April 19, 2026) said its New Glenn rocket booster touched down after its launch, marking its first landing of a reused…
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International Space Station (image used for representation) (This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Wherever humans go, they need oxygen to breathe — and soon enough humans are going to go to new parts of space and…
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On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on December 22 2032. In other words, the newly-discovered space rock poses a significant impact…
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Russia launched a Soyuz rocket early on Tuesday carrying two satellites designed to monitor the space weather around Earth and 53 small satellites, including two Iranian ones, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said. The Soyuz-2.1 launch spacecraft, which lifted off from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome, carried two Ionosfera-M satellites, which will become part of the space system…
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The launch of China’s Zhongxing-11 satellite Beijing: China on Tuesday announced plans to launch a manned lunar mission, construct a lunar space station and explore habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life to expand its space programme in the next few decades. China’s top space bodies unveiled a national mid- and long-term development programme for space science,…
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Cape Canaveral, Florida: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk today shared a stunning high-definition video of the Polaris space mission around Earth. Sharing the video highlights, Mr Musk said, “Looks like CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), but it is real”. According to the mission’s official website, the Polaris space programme is a “first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight…
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Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to the universe. But if you’re wrong, you’ve just wasted a lot of money and time. That is exactly what my team did when we pointed the Keck telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawai’i at what looked…
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File picture of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 Vikram Lander resting on the moon’s surface | Photo Credit: ANI India celebrate its first National Space Day on Friday (August 23, 2024) with the theme, “Touching lives while touching the Moon: India’s space saga”. August 23 is celebrated as the National Space Day after India achieved a historic milestone…
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams gets ready to board the Boeing’s Starliner capsule atop an Atlas V rocket for a mission to the International Space Station at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on May 6, 2024. The launch was called off. | Photo Credit: AP The target date for the next attempt to launch Boeing…
