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 …
Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching another almost exactly like it — this time on a different rocket. The $468 million mission is designed to study the main driver of climate change emitted from smokestacks …
This fifth edition of Global Strategic Trends (GST 5) aims to describe possible futures to provide a strategic context for policy- and decision-makers across Government. Thirteen broad thematic areas have been identified, with eight geographic regions and a section on space. Some trends (most notably those relating to economics, religion, …
A report based on new satellite imagery says forests on the slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains are disappearing more quickly than anywhere else in the province — including the oilsands area. The Global Forest Watch data, to be released Thursday, suggests industrial development is cutting through forests on the eastern …
Japan is scheduled to launch a new mapping satellite that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rain forests. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 (ALOS-2) will be released by the nation’s H-IIA rocket, which will lift off shortly after noon Saturday, according to the Japan …
The first ‘satellite remote-sensing laboratory’ of the country was inaugurated on Tuesday at the crop reporting services centre functioning in the agriculture extension division office. Agriculture Secretary Ahmed Bakhsh Narejo inaugurated the lab established in collaboration with the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) and the Food and …
Washington: Astronauts will now turn into cosmic gardeners and grow lettuce in space as Nasa is all set to send the largest-ever plant growth chamber to the International Space Station (ISS). The US space agency will launch the Vegetable Production System (Veggie) aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on Monday. “Veggie will …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking forward to the liftoff of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C24 from Sriharikota at 5.14 p.m. today. After more than 19 minutes of flight, if the PSLV-C24 puts India’s navigation satellite, called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1B), into a perfect …
Space technicians were preparing on Thursday for the launch of the first satellite in an ambitious European project to monitor Earth for climate change, pollution and deforestation and help disaster relief. Sentinel-1A, a satellite designed to scan the Earth with cloud-penetrating radar, is set to lift off at 2102 GMT …
As part of its aspirations to build a regional navigational system equivalent to Global Positioning System of the US, ISRO is set to send its second satellite from Sriharikota tomorrow, which would help put in place the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System. The second of the seven planned satellites for …
The biggest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived begins its rollout on Thursday with the launch of a radar satellite from French Guiana. The EU's Sentinel-1a spacecraft will be followed into orbit by a fleet of other satellites in the coming years. Together, they will return an unprecedented volume of data …
Japan launched a rocket early Friday with a global precipitation monitoring satellite developed by US and Japanese agencies on board, authorities said. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the rocket, H-2A launch vehicle, was lifted off from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, reported Xinhua. The satellite, which is 6.5 …
US space agency NASA yesterday said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India’s ISRO. The NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation Synthetic Aperture Radar mission is a part of its plan to launch in the next seven years a series of satellite related to water and drought, the agency …
NASA scientists plan to use images shot from space and within the Earth's atmosphere to help California monitor one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, officials said on Tuesday. Scientists said they would deploy imaging tools to measure snowpack and groundwater levels and use a host of other …
India’s reputation in rocket technology grew as its communication satellite, carried by the hard-to-perfect Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, took off successfully on Sunday. Tension began to mount four minutes after takeoff, when the country’s home-grown engine ignited. Cheers went up when the propeller ignited successfully and sustained its combustion. Seventeen …
ISRO’s heavy-duty rocket with indigenous cryogenic booster blasts off successfully, injects GSAT-14 into orbit India joined the big league of space powers at 4.35 pm today when its mega launcher, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV-D5, powered by sophisticated rocket technology, including for the first time an indigenously built …
Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Mission Readiness Review (MRR) team and the Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) have given the go-ahead for the launch of GSLV-D5 on January 5, 2014. The 29-hour countdown will commence at 11 hrs (IST) on January 4. The spacecraft will be carrying advanced communication satellites. “Things …
Cape Canaveral: Nasa hopes its newest Mars spacecraft lives up to its know-itall name. The robotic explorer called Maven is due to blast off on Monday on a 10-month journey to the red planet. There, it will orbit Mars and study the atmosphere to try to understand how the planet …
India’s first mission to Mars has successfully blasted off on its 300-day journey to the red planet. The Mars Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on 5 November. It is scheduled to start circling the planet and taking data in September 2014. Original …
11.40 am: Second Stage (PS2) Propellant filling operations completed. 11.54am: All vehicle systems have switched on for the countdown starting at 6:08 hours (IST). India's space ambition will make another giant leap at 2.38pm on Tuesday - mangalvaar, the day of planet Mars. The country's first mission to the red …
Isro said that the launch will not be impacted due to a cyclone warning, which was given for the southern coast of Tamil Nadu A day prior to the historic moment of launching its Orbiter to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has undertaken the propellant filling operation of …
