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The launch of "Gaganyaan" Test Vehicle Space flight, that is, "Gaganyaan" Test Vehicle Development flight (TV-D1) is scheduled on 21st of this month. Indian Navy personnel have already started mock operations to recover the module.
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Union Minister of State Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Thursday said that North Eastern Space Applications Centre ( NESAC ), Shillong will execute 110 projects in eight North Eastern States by 2024. NESAC Shillong was established in 2000, jointly with North Eastern Council (NEC).
India takes a further step in space science.ISRO Chairman Dr. K Sivan has announced that four airmen from Indian Air Force have been identified for India's first manned mission to space, Gaganyaan.
Tuning into 2019’s last ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on several points like youth, anarchy, nepotism, ISRO, Solar Eclipse, tourism etc. He also spoke on creating a demand for local products which can lead to the path shown by Gandhi Ji towards self-reliance.
NASA astronaut Christina Koch made history today, setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. Koch arrived at the International Space Station on March 14 for her spaceflight mission. As of December 28, she has been in space for 289 days, surpassing the record of Peggy Whitson, who spent 288 consecutive days in space.
Ethiopia launched its first satellite today; a landmark achievement for the country's space program that caps a banner year for the African space industry. The launch of the Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite (ETRSS) took place at a space station in China. The live broadcast was watched by a group of Ethiopian and Chinese officials and scientists who had gathered at the Entoto Observatory and Research Centre outside the capital, Addis Ababa.
One of the beauties of nature, an annular eclipse of the Sun will occur on December 26. From India, the annular phase will be visible in the morning after sunrise from some places within a narrow corridor of southern part of the country (parts of Karnataka, Kerala & Tamil Nadu) and it will be seen as partial solar eclipse from the rest part of the country.
After successfully launching India's latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 along with nine foreign satellites, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today shared the video successful deployment of RISAT-2BR1. The radar imaging earth observation satellite, RISAT-2BR1 has been launched through Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). This is the 50th mission of PSLV.
Some of the most dramatic events in the universe occur when certain stars die and explode catastrophically in the process. NASA’s Hubble space telescope has captured a stunning image of a galaxy’s spiral pattern. A joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency, the Hubble telescope has captured a host of beautiful images since its launch in 1990.
The tiny planet Mercury scooted across the sun's face on Monday for the last time until 2032, and skywatchers across the Americas, Africa, and Europe had the chance to witness the rare celestial event.
NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the Apollo era has been opened. It sets the stage for scientists to practice techniques to study future samples collected on Artemis missions.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Dr K Sivan has said, the organization will tomorrow perform a maneuver called trans-lunar injection by which Chandrayaan 2 will leave earth and move towards the moon's orbit. He said, the maneuver will be performed early morning at around 3:30 am.
ISRO is not only a space science center in India but also our national pride. But do we remember the founder of ISRO? Vikram Sarabhai, the father of space science in India. Today 12th August is the 100th birth anniversary of the great scientist. ISRO has launched a year-long programmes and functions from today to commemorate the birth centenary of its founder and eminent space scientist Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. Inaugural function has been organized at Gujarat University convention Hall in Ahmedabad this morning
Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram Lander opened its eyes on Saturday and captured first few images of Earth. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Sunday released the images as it orbits the planet. In a series of tweets, ISRO has shared a few pictures taken from a height of 2450km, 3200km, 4100km, 4700 km and 5000km above Earth.
After the successful Second earth-bound maneuver, the Third earthbound orbit-raising maneuver for Chandryaan-2 spacecraft has been performed successfully today at 3.12 pm as planned, using the onboard propulsion system for a firing duration of 989 seconds. The orbit achieved is 276 x 71792 km.
And we have achieved it… After taking a good pause, ISRO has launched its moon mission Chandrayaan-2, at the scheduled time of 2:43 PM today. With Chandrayaan-2, India aims at the soft landing on the Moon. If successful, it will be the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to do so. Seeing a great success, the USA has congratulated ISRO for its achievement.
If Lunar landing of Apollo 11 was hailed as 'Giant leap for mankind' the launch of #Chandrayaan2 will be remembered as a 'Giant leap for womankind.' Because they were women who led the ISRO team and achieve this great success. All credit should go to Muthayya Vanitha & Ritu Karidhal, ISRO's two women directors in charge of the mission, even though their work isn't over until Chandrayaan 2 lands on the moon in September later this year.
On the morning of July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lifted off for the moon. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon’s surface, the first of 12 American astronauts to complete this feat. The story of Apollo 11 never really gets old, nor does seeing pictures of the amazing scenes that surrounded it. From the astronauts preparing for their mission to the rocket launching to those first bootprints on the moon’s surface, here are some pictures
“Don’t worry ISRO! we will wait to create history,” these were the words by each Indian when India's second unmanned mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan 2, was put on hold citing technical issues. According to ISRO, the revised countdown will be announced later.
Launch of Chandrayaan 2
One of the beauties of nature, a partial eclipse of the Moon will occur on July 17 and the last lunar eclipse of 2019 which will be visible in India. The Penumbral eclipse will begin at 12:13 am on July 17and the Partial Eclipse will occur at 1:31 am. The maximum eclipse will take place at 3 am. The partial lunar eclipse will end at 4:30 am. The Penumbral eclipse will end at 5:47 am.
On the preparations, ISRO chairman K. Sivan confirmed the news at the seventh convocation of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST). He also added, the launch vehicle will be moved to the launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh by 7 July, Sunday.
n the quest of finding a solution to this meticulous job, the Agnikul Cosmos, IIT-Madras incubated startup bring a solution. The Agnikul started by Srinath Ravichandran and Moin SPM in 2017, the startup provides a dedicated launch vehicle for smaller satellites at a lower cost.
India rapidly becoming the major power in space science. ISRO with hard work and dedication becomes a major space agency in the world. Now, furthering this progress, The Union Cabinet, chaired by PM Modi, has approved ongoing GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) continuation programme phase 4 consisting of five GSLV flights during the period of 2021-2024.
An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth. The image shows a part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background. NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries launched the unmanned Beresheet - Hebrew for Genesis -- from Cape Canaveral in Florida on February 22.
For creating the curiosity in young minds about Space and facilitating young scientists with knowledge on Space technology, ISRO launched the Young Scientist Programme- “Yuva Vigyani Karyakram” (YUVIKA).
2021 will be a busy year for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) as it has set itself the target to send astronauts to space. The Gaganyaan project by the space agency will make India the fourth nation to independently send humans into space announced ISRO chief Dr K Sivan.
Celebrating the golden jubilee of diplomatic relations of India and Bhutan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured Bhutan Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering that both the countries will work unanimously towards strengthening relations. Discussing a wide spectrum of bilateral relations both the countries has explored new opportunities in fields of space, hydro projects and other bilateral relations.
A pioneering robotics technology, financed entirely by the European Commission and enabling autonomous long-distance space rover missions began field-tests on the Moroccan northern tip of the Sahara desert. Robots invaded the Sahara Desert for Europe’s largest rover field test, taking place in a Mars-like part of Morocco. For two weeks three rovers and more than 40 engineers tested automated navigation systems at up to five different sites.
Japanese scientists have detected evidence of water in 17 asteroids for the first time using data from the infrared satellite AKARI. This discovery will contribute to our understanding of the distribution of water in our solar system, the evolution of asteroids, and the origin of water on Earth.
New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting. With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from the lander's deck, gently setting them on the Martian surface at Elysium Planitia, the lava plain where InSight touched down on Nov. 26.
For the past two years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sailed across the solar system by the light of the stars. Like ancient mariners and the Apollo astronauts, it needed the constancy of the constellations to navigate the dark unknown.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the first-day image from the Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite HYSIS. The first-day image was acquired at NRSC Hyderabad on December 2, covering parts of Lakhpat in Gujarat. The sample color composite image represents VNIR spectral bands.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch GSAT-11 — India’s heaviest and most powerful communication satellite yet — on an Ariane-5 rocket 5 December at 2 am IST from French New Guinea.
The space agency ISRO will launch its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C43, carrying her modern earth observation satellite HysIS, on Thursday. It will also carry 30 other co-passenger satellites of customers from eight countries.
Mars has received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer) journey from Earth.
The Indian Space Research Organization ISRO will launch the modern communication satellite GSAT-29 onboard the rocket GSLV-Mark-Three on November 14.
NASA's legendary Kepler space telescope has retired after running out of fuel needed for further science operations. The US space agency said this brings an end to a prolific nine-and-a-half year mission in which it discovered over 2,600 intriguing exoplanets, some of which may harbour life.
Roughly 65 million light-years away from Earth is a galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 (DF2 for short). But DF2 may as well be called F-U, because that’s what it’s saying to scientists who thought they understood galaxies, dark matter, and really anything about our universe.
It takes a lot of energy to put stuff in space. That’s why one longtime futurist dream is a “space elevator” — a long cable strung between a geostationary satellite and the Earth that astronauts could use like a dumbwaiter to haul stuff up into orbit.
Sometimes nature shows us something that we have even never imagined. In these brighty cities we don’t admire much the world beyond the earth but whenever we are in villages, we feel that lets have a look at the sky in the night time and just keep on looking at the stars, moon etc. usually the colors we see are white and black but the sky has number of colors hidden under its curtain. This can be seen by this image.
European and Japanese space agencies said an Ariane 5 rocket successfully lifted a spacecraft carrying two probes into orbit today for a joint mission to Mercury, the planet closest to the sun.
Scientists have found that violent flares from the host star may make planets orbiting it uninhabitable by affecting their atmospheres. NASA said, its Hubble telescope is observing such stars through a large programme called HAZMAT, or Habitable Zones and M dwarf Activity across Time.
On Wednesday, Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its flyby of Venus at a distance of about 1,500 miles during the first Venus gravity assist of the mission. These gravity assists will help the spacecraft tighten its orbit closer and closer to the Sun over the course of the mission.
In this busy, noisy, polluted world, we are getting far from the nature’s love which it wants to give us but this picture refreshes the memories one has some or the other time has experienced somewhere on his/her society’s terrace or in Verandah of village home etc. as if we are on the laps on Mother Nature.
Just over a month into its seven-year mission to touch the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed back the first-light data from each of its four instrument suites, says NASA.
After a gap of five months, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will resume its launch operations on September 16 by putting two international satellites into space on a PSLV rocket.
Our Space Organization known as ISRO has recently announced about its manned spacecraft in Space named Gaganyaan. Along with this ISRO has also decided to set up its ground base at our globe's one of the ends that is the North Pole.
‘India and France will join hands for India’s Gaganyaan programme for manned space flight before 2022’ this was announced during the 6th edition of the biennial Bengaluru Space Expo inaugurated by ISRO Chairman Dr. K Sivan in Bengaluru today.
