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 …
Vandenberg Air Force Base: A rocket carrying a NASA satellite crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch on Tuesday, ending a USD 280 million mission to track global warming from space. The Taurus XL rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory blasted off just before 2 am local …
Chandrayaan-1, the first Indian planetary exploration mission, will carry out high resolution remote sensing studies of the moon to further our understanding about its origin and evolution. Original Source
New Delhi: The Planning Commission has shown the green light to the Rs 12,400-crore manned space mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scheduled for launch by 2015.
Chicago: The use of crop-based biofuels could speed up rather than slow down global warming by fueling the destruction of rainforests, scientists warned. Once heralded as the answer to oil, biofuels have become increasingly controversial because of their impact on food prices and the amount of energy it takes to …
Cape Canaveral/Moscow: After the first high-speed impact between two intact satellites, a spokesman for Russian civilian space agency Roscosmos, Alexander Vorobyev, said,
Bangalore: As a prelude to a manned moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working towards a maiden manned Indian space mission vehicle that can carry three astronauts for seven days in a near earth orbit, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said at an international aerospace conference here …
A European satellite has discovered the smallest planet outside of our solar system, which is twice as large as earth. The planet is believed to be composed of rock and water, and takes 20 hours to orbit its host star, the shortest orbital period of all exoplanets found so far. …
Tehran: Iran said it had launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time on Tuesday, a move likely to worry Israel and western powers further about Tehran
Iran said Tuesday that it had launched its first domestically produced satellite, a move that has prompted concerns in the United States and other nations about Iranian nuclear ambitions and its ability to deploy long-range ballistic missiles. The launch Monday, coinciding with celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of the Islamic …
Washington: Astronauts who spend months in space tend to lose bone strength, making them increasingly vulnerable to fractures in later life. Universities of California (UC) Irvine and San Francisco evaluated 13 astronauts who spent four to six months on the International Space Station and found that, on average, their hipbone …
Date: 08-Jan-09 Country: JAPAN Author: Chisa Fujioka TOKYO - Japan's space agency will launch a satellite later this month to monitor greenhouse gases around the world, officials said Wednesday, hoping the data it collects helps global efforts to combat climate change. The Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), to be launched …
At 7:08 am on October 26, 2008, when the spacecraft Chandrayaan-I pushed beyond the 1.5 lakh-km mark in space, it depended on a 32-metre antenna in a quiet saucer-shaped valley about 40 km from Bangalore near a village called Byalalu. At that distance
Will help maintain network across countries The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reached new heights today with the launching of a satellite, built jointly by ISRO and EADS-Astrium, which will help in maintaining communication network across Europe, West Asia and North Africa. The state of the art communication satellite, W2M, …
The Chandrayaan probe gets clicking THE probing instrument on board Chandrayaan-I with the map of India painted on it dislodged from the spacecraft and hit the surface of the Shackleton crater on the moon on November 14. This crater in the south pole of the moon had earlier been identified …
