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 …
in an ambitious revival of exploration of Mars, two us spacecraft have approached the planet. One spacecraft has studied the atmosphere, prospects of water and observed weather through the seasons of a full Martian year (687 days). The second craft is on course for a landing on December 3 at …
With the successful placing of the Chandra X-ray telescope in its highly elliptical orbit, astronomers are looking forward to get a fresh insight into the mysteries of several cosmic phenomena like pulsars and black holes. The telescope itself is 14 metres long, has excellent sensitivity and its resolution is eight …
After days of negotiation with a US-based entrepreneur, the Russian Space Agency has changed its mind again about the fate of the Mir space station. After several stay orders, officials now say the present crew will not be replaced when they return to Earth in August. Only recently, there were …
An automated telescope that traces asteroids has discovered a chunk of rock some 40 metres in diameter that is circling the Sun in an orbit close to the Earth's. The asteroid is believed to be a chip off the Moon. Gareth Williams of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, …
The search for extraterrestrial life is about to get a big boost with the announcement that a new telescope will be built solely for this purpose. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute plans to build a telescope that will be 100 metres on a side and will consist of …
computer hackers are said to have held one of uk 's military communications satellite, Skynet , to ransom. This was published in the uk -based newspaper Sunday Business . Though the ministry of defence ( m o d) denied any such attack, computer fraud detectives at Scotland Yard said they …
russian scientists' attempt to reflect the Sun's light towards dark areas of the Earth floundered when the giant mirror failed. Astronauts aboard the Russian space station Mir were to bounce sunlight off a 25-metre (82 feet) fabric mirror and direct the rays toward the ground, producing beams up to 10 …
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a US $3.5 million deal to a consortium of labs and companies to develop a prototype of a propulsion system that could propel microsatellites into space. These tiny microsatellites would measure about 10 cm along the edge and weigh a few …
Three years back, the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope aimed its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 at what seemed to be an empty patch of sky, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field. The results revealed many far-off galaxies and strange, lumpy blue knots of light. Now, the spacecraft has reexamined the region …
a state-of-art monitoring satellite, Ocean Sat irs p-iv, will be launched by mid-1999, said space commission member U R Rao. He was speaking at a four-day national seminar on
The us Army is about to embark on a landmark mission: to launch a missile fuelled not by the usual solid fuel, but by a toothpaste-like gel. The gel will help them control the missile better, will improve the missile's range and even allow it to attack more than one …
what can dock the space shuttle and spot a brain tumour? Not a medically-qualified astronaut but a neural networking computer algorithm designed by engineers at the us National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( nasa ). The system has become so adept at analysing the large amount of data needed to …
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says it wants Russia to abandon its Mir space station so it will not be in competition with its international successor. Paradoxically, NASA officials are considering another space shuttle mission to Mir. The proposed mission would retrieve a docking module which, according …
OKAY, so it was not as impressive as it was supposed to be. But now that the over-hyped Lenoid meteor shower is a thing of the past, one group of people - the satellite owners - are breathing sighs of relief. As far as meteor showers are concerned, astronomers still …
for the National Space and Aeronautics Administration (nasa ), 1999 began with a bang. On January 4, the ambitious Mars Polar Lander took off successfully from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Carnival, Florida, usa. It is expected to touch down on Mars on December 3, 1999, after releasing a …
a flawless countdown, a false dawn over much of Florida, gasps and cheers from onlookers marked the launch of space shuttle Endeavour , aptly named as it is humankind's first attempt to make a room with a view in outer space. The space shuttle blasted off from the Kennedy Space …
Mars Express, the European Space Agency's planned mission to the fourth stone from the Sun, Mars, received the green signal from all the 14 national delegations recently. Due to be launched sometime in the year 2003, Mars Express will be the first orbiter to use radar to penetrate the Martian …
So your days seem too long and never end? Scientists at US National and Space Administration's (NASA!s) let Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered the real culprit. They have shown that tiny changes in the Earth's rotation match those predicted by the computer- generated models of oceanic circulation. The …
