Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
India created history with its maiden Mars mission – Mangalyaan or MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) successfully injected into the Martian orbit on Wednesday. ISRO became the fourth space agency in the world and first in Asia to successfully launch and execute an interplanetary mission to Mars after the Soviets, NASA …
A $74 million Indian spacecraft entered orbit around Mars today after an almost yearlong voyage, and for 11 percent the cost of the U.S.’s Maven probe. Mangalyaan, or “Mars craft” in Hindi, made orbit after a trip of about 661 million kilometers (411 million miles), the Indian Space Research Organization …
A NASA spacecraft that aims to study the upper atmosphere of Mars and reveal how its climate changed over time is poised to begin orbiting the Red Planet. After a 10-month journey, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) probe is making its final approach to Mars and will begin …
India's maiden mission to Mars has "entered the Martian neighbourhood", its space agency says, 48 hours before its planned arrival in orbit. Launched last November, the spacecraft - known informally as Mangalyaan - will complete a 300-day journey to reach the orbit on Wednesday. If it succeeds, India will become …
The executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved the much-awaited ‘Bangabandhu Satellite Launching’ project with an outlay of Tk 2,967.95 crore, aiming to launch the country’s first satellite in the orbit. The approval came from the 8th ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year held at the …
A new water pumping station in the Unnichchi tank in Sri Lanka’s eastern Batticaloa District was established in 2010 as part of a new water distribution system. Pic courtesy of Trust.org South Asia is set to get a new drought monitoring tool next year, which policymakers hope will help a …
JIUQUAN - China successfully launched two satellites via one rocket at 8:15 a.m. Thursday Beijing Time (0015 GMT) at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern Gobi desert. One of the satellites is the Chuangxin-1-04, which is designed to collect and transmit data on hydrology, weather, electric power, and …
German researchers have established the height of the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps with greater precision than ever before. The new maps they have produced show that the ice is melting at an unprecedented rate. The maps, produced with a satellite-mounted instrument, have elevation accuracies to within a few metres. …
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has signed an agreement with Venezuela for in-orbit delivery of a second remote sensing satellite for the country, the company said on Tuesday. CASC subsidiary Great Wall Industry Corporation will be the major contractor of the project, the corporation said. But the …
A high-flying package of live animals, plant seeds, and materials samples shot into space Friday (July 18) aboard a retrievable Russian Foton satellite, launching a two-month mission focusing on microgravity research into biological and physical sciences. The workhorse launcher fired its kerosene-fueled engines and lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome …
The United Arab Emirates government on Wednesday said it plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the planet of Mars by 2021 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding. The project complements a long list of ambitious targets articulated by the U.A.E leaders that all have in …
The mission of Aura, which is Latin for breeze, centers on obtaining measurements of ozone, aerosols and key gases throughout the atmosphere. And after one decade in space, the satellite has provided vital data about the cause, concentrations and impact of major air pollutants. One instrument on the satellite, built …
Posts, Telecommunication and Information Techno-logy Ministry will place a fresh development project proposal (DPP) to launch the country’s first-ever satellite Bangabandhu-1 at an estimated cost of Tk 2,900 crore. “We have estimated the cost for building and launching the satellite to be between Tk 2,800 crore and Tk 2,900 crore,” …
An unmanned Delta 2 rocket blasted off from California on Wednesday, carrying a NASA science satellite to survey where carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas tied to climate change, is moving into and out of Earth's atmosphere, a NASA Television broadcast showed. The 127-foot-tall (39-meter) rocket lifted off at 2:56 a.m. …
The US space agency is to launch today a satellite that tracks atmospheric carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. The launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 is expected at 2:56 am Pacific time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “Now that humans are acknowledging …
Nasa has launched a mission dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide (CO2) from space. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) will help pinpoint the key locations on the Earth's surface where the gas is being emitted and absorbed. A Delta rocket carrying the satellite lifted clear of the Vandenberg Air Force Base …
Sri Lanka has been selected as one of the first two pilot countries to implement the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) project on the application of space technologies for drought monitoring and early warning. The project will be continued for three consecutive crop …
The US space agency (Nasa) will make a second attempt on Tuesday to put a high-resolution carbon dioxide observatory in orbit. The first satellite was destroyed on launch in 2009. Since then, scientists and engineers have built a near identical spacecraft, which will launch from the Vandenberg Air Force Base …
India has put into orbit five foreign satellites, including one built by France, to observe the earth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi watched the rocket carrying the satellites take off from Sriharikota launch centre in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The other satellites include two from Canada and one each …
