A new multimillion-rand telescope in the Karoo will offer astronomers an unprecedented view of the stars. The MeerLICHT instrument in Sutherland will be specifically linked to the MeerKAT radio telescope array near Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. Unlike its bigger brother SALT (Southern African Large Telescope), the MeerLICHT is meant …
An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules on Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel. The six-member, all-male crew of three Russians, …
Mumbai: Has the path-breaking discovery of water on the moon by Chandrayaan-1 robbed Indian scientists of their due? Some Indian lunar scientists feel that their role has been completely sidelined by their American counterparts, who were also a part of the Rs 386-crore lunar mission. The discovery was done by …
Astronauts will not be sent by the US to the Moon or Mars for at least a decade, but they can still get an idea of what it would be like by living 65ft underwater. On Monday, a crew of six, including two veteran astronauts, descended to Aquarius, an undersea …
Washington: Nasa is looking forward to flying a plasma-powered rocket to survey an asteroid that could take astronauts to Mars in a little over a month
Mumbai: The smallest Indian satellite, promising to send Indian education into a higher orbit, will leave the Isro Satellite Centre in Bangalore and move to Sriharikota for integration with the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for launch on May 9. What makes this spacecraft, StudSat, unique is that it …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI The Planning has slashed Commission has slashed funding for the programme to send a manned mission to the moon by 2015. The Human Space Flight Programme, earlier allocated Rs 238 crores, will now get only Rs 30 crores because the commission wants to allocate the rest …
Thiruvananthapuram, 18 April: A team of Indian space scientists has established that the indigenously built cryogenic engine had ignited for a second during the failed GSLV mission Thursday. "This took place for a second time and then the fuel supply to power turbo got blocked. The (Indian Space Research Organisation) …
Sriharikota (AP): The first test flight of India's indigenously developed cryogenic upper stage was "not successful" as the vehicle lost control 293 seconds after the launch and crashed into the Bay of Bengal. ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan, who informed about the test result, said "the cryogenic engine was supposed to …
Nasa and General Motors announced that they plan to send a robot to the International Space Station, with the eventual goal of having it help out the astronauts there. Although there are already several robots out in space
Chennai: The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLVD3, the first Indian rocket to be powered by a totally indigenous cryogenic engine, will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 4.27pm on Thursday. The 416-tonne vehicle will carry GSAT-4, a 2,218-kg communication satellite, to be put in an …
WASHINGTON: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say that the water on the Moon comes in three different flavors. This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series …
In a blow to the Indian and Israeli researchers, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to leave out TAUVEX (Tel Aviv University Ultra Violet Experiment), an Israeli payload, during the launch of its experimental communication satellite GSAT-4.
Boosted By Chandrayaan-1 Success, Isro Plans To Launch Manned Mission To Space, Moon & Planetary Expeditions In The Next 25 Yrs Srinivas Laxman | TNN Chandrayaan has made India dream of the universe. The thrust area of the country
Mumbai: Fourteen exoplanets have been discovered since the year began while the figure for 2009 was 84, said eminent astronomer Malcolm Longair, of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Exoplanets are those planets that lie outside the solar system. There are billions of stars in our galaxy and a significant percentage …
