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 …
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. on Sunday successfully launched a radar satellite and an optical satellite using an H-IIA rocket. The rocket lifted off at 1:40 p.m. from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, and put the satellites into orbit, the …
The Russian Space Agency said Tuesday that it would send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 from a new launchpad in the Far East. The head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, told Russian news agencies that the rocket booster would deliver a 1,100-pound space exploration vehicle with up to …
China plans to launch 20 spacecrafts this year, including the country's third lunar probe Chang'e-3 and manned spacecraft Shenzhou-X, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced Wednesday. The country is scheduled to conduct a manned space docking test between orbiting target module Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-X, the corporation said during …
Russia plans to launch an unmanned space vehicle to the Moon in 2015, federal space agency Roscosmos said on Tuesday. "In 2015, the first launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome will be the Luna-Globe launch," Vladimir Popovkin, head of Roscosmos, told reporters. Vostochny is a new Russian space center under construction …
A centre of excellence specialising in reading space weather conditions to help air traffic on polar routes would come up here by the middle of this year, the first of its kind in the country. “It will be a centre of excellence in space sciences. The centre’s main thrust will …
Scientists using an intra-galactic speed gun have detected five new planets, relatively close to Earth, and one of them is orbiting a star’s habitable zone, where conditions are suitable for life. It would take only 12 years to reach the planets when travelling at the speed of light. Scientists analysing …
Scientists using an intra-galactic speed gun have detected five new planets, relatively close to Earth, and one of them is orbiting a star’s habitable zone, where conditions are suitable for life. It would take only 12 years to reach the planets when travelling at the speed of light. Scientists analysing …
Ebb and Flow chased each other around the Moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel supplies, the twin Nasa spacecraft are ready for a dramatic finish. On Monday, they will plunge — seconds apart — into a mountain near the Moon’s north pole. It’s a …
NASA may have devoted many of its exploration resources to Mars recently, but the US space agency also has its eye on an icy moon of Jupiter that may be capable of supporting life. The agency is thinking about ways to investigate the possible habitability of Europa, Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon. …
Building on the success of Curiosity’s Red Planet landing, Nasa has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars programme, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. The announcement comes a day after Nasa released the results of the first soil tested by the Curiosity rover, which …
The long-anticipated meteorological satellite INSAT-3D will be launched in the third quarter of 2013, the government today said. Minister of State in the PMO V Narayanasamy today said electrical and thermal tests of the assembled satellite had been completed and it was now in the advanced stage of readiness. ISRO’s …
Nasa plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, said the US space agency. The announcement came yesterday a day after Nasa released the results of the first soil tested by the Curiosity rover, which found traces …
The nearly 900kg Nasa’s Curiosity rover which touched down on the Red Planet’s Gale Grater on August 6 has “discovered hints of organic compounds which could aid primitive life,’’ mission scientists announced at a media briefing on Thursday, on the opening day of the American Geophysical Union meeting at San …
Beginning a new era in communication, Sri Lanka’s first communication satellite, Supreme SAT I will be launched from Xichang Satellite launch centre in China today. The satellite will be positioned above Sri Lanka in the Geo-Stationary orbit at 87.5 degrees East in just seven minutes and this will be operational …
Sri Lanka would move to a new era on Thursday when the country’s first Communication satellite would be orbited from China. In a few hours, it would be positioned over Sri Lanka. The Supreme Group Sri Lanka along with China Great Wall Industry Corporation has funded and developed this satellite …
China on Monday sent the third satellite in its "Environment I" family into the sky, sharpening its abilities in environmental monitoring and disaster forecasting. The launch marks the completion of a plan initiated by China in 2003 to create a small environmental monitoring satellite constellation, according to north China's Taiyuan …
A massive radio telescope for use in space observation was unveiled Sunday at the foot of Sheshan Mountain in Shanghai. The telescope will be used to track and collect data from satellites and space probes. The newly-built radio telescope can pick up eight different frequency bands and also track Earth …
China successfully launched another satellite into space for its indigenous global navigation and positioning network at 11:33 p.m. Beijing Time Thursday, the launch center said. The satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan, was boosted by a Long March-3C carrier rocket. China launches …
China successfully launched the Practice-9 A and Practice-9 B satellites into space at 11:25 am Sunday, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said. The satellites, launched from the center in North China's Shanxi province, were boosted by a Long March-2C carrier rocket and sent into a predetermined orbit. The Practice-9 A …
India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims …
