April 1, 2013
Ten years ago, on January 16, 2003 Mission 28 took off on a 16-day scientific space programme. What was to end on a positive note became an accident that could never be forgotten.
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February 25, 2013
A product of Indo-French collaboration, the Saral satellite will help better monitor sea levels
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Washington,
December 2, 2012
“Get involved, try to be a part of it” is the message of record-breaking Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams to millions of Indians students and space enthusiasts.
Stressing that In...
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New York,
November 13, 2012
Indians around the world got a special Diwali message from outer space as Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams sent out warm wishes on the occasion from the International Space Station.
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October 23, 2012
Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Secretary, Department of Space, spoke to Madhumathi D.S. on the national space programme’s present concerns and...
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London,
September 17, 2012
NASA’s Curiosity rover has beamed back a picture of its first solar eclipse from the surface of Mars, showing Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting the Red planet, moving across the face of the Su...
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Beijing,
August 13, 2012
China’s first Moon rover will be powered by a home-built nuclear battery, the chief scientist of the China’s lunar project said.The rover will land on moon next year on board Chang’e-3, Chi...
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Washington,
January 10, 2012
Astronomers should start hunting for planets like the Tatooine in the science fiction series “Star Wars”, as Earth-like worlds could exist in the habitable zones around binary systems, scientists...
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Washington,
September 13, 2011
Astronomers have discovered more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super—Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star, thanks to ESO’s world—leading exoplanet hunt...
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Moscow,
August 29, 2011
A recent failure by Russia’s mainstay cargo rocket is likely to keep three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) more than a month longer than planned, the Russian agency Interfax...
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February 27, 2013
It is almost nineteen years since India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) made its first successful flight. On Monday, this trusty rocket, with a distinctive configuration involving solid an...
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NEW DELHI,
December 20, 2012
Caleb Scharf and Lewis Dartnell on the guessing game about the possibility of life on Mars
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Houston,
November 18, 2012
Record-setting Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, along with two other cosmonauts, will return to Earth on Sunday, after four months in the orbit.
Ms Williams ceremonially ha...
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Washington,
November 3, 2012
The last of NASA’s retired spacecraft Atlantis slowly covered its historic last journey to its final resting place after the US space agency ended its 30-year shuttle program last year.
T...
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October 23, 2012
Cartosat: A series of Earth observation spacecraft (1, 2, 2A and 2B) that ISRO has launched for cartographic or mapping uses.
Footprint: coverage of a satellite over a geogr...
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August 16, 2012
This is a quotation from the book “Greetings, Carbon-based Bipedals!” by the famous science writer, the late Arthur Clarke — Editor: “Is there life on Mars? Report in 1000 words”. Reporter: “No...
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August 1, 2012
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has high expectations for the upcoming landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars and is certain of great science results, a lab engineer says.
Torsten Zorn,...
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November 18, 2011
India has a formidable new addition to its armoury — Agni-IV. The missile's first test flight under its earlier name, Agni-II Prime, in December 2010 ended in failure. But those problems have clea...
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Hyderabad,
September 12, 2011
A state-of-the-art Oceansat-2 ground station was inaugurated on Monday by Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here.The Dep...
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Washington,
August 29, 2011
For the first time, astronomers have discovered star—like bodies known as ‘brown dwarfs’ with temperatures that can be even cooler than the human body.Brown dwarfs, also called Y dwarfs and...
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