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 …
Member states of the European Space Agency have reaffirmed their commitment to launch a rover to Mars in 2020. Meeting in Paris, delegations agreed to put the project, which has experienced serial delays, on to a fresh schedule. They also injected an immediate extra sum of €77m (£59m), which will …
BEIJING - China's homegrown navigation system, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), will cover the whole globe with a constellation of 35 satellites by 2020, said a government report on Thursday. By 2018, the system is expected to provide basic services to the nations along the Belt and Road, as …
Astronomers have discovered the largest planet outside our solar system orbiting two stars, at a distance that would make it potentially habitable for people, scientists announced Monday. A team of NASA astronomers that made the discovery using the Kepler space telescope revealed the findings at a meeting of the American …
BEIJING - China's first high orbit remote sensing satellite, Gaofen-4, went into use after six months of in-orbit testing, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced Monday. Gaofen-4 is China's first geosynchronous orbit high-definition optical imaging satellite and the world's most sophisticated. Unlike from …
The mission to demonstrate technologies needed to detect gravitational waves in space has been a stunning success. The Lisa Pathfinder satellite was sent into orbit to test elements of the laser measurement system that would be used on a future observatory. Performance objectives were exceeded on the very first day …
Beijing, June 6 (IANS) Chinese authorities have planned to launch an independent optical facility, the function of which will be similar to the Hubble telescope. The optical cabin's field of view will be 300 times as large as that of the Hubble and it will be connected with a soon …
China launched a new civilian high-resolution mapping satellite on Monday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province. The Ziyuan III 02 satellite took off on the back of a Long March 4B rocket at 11:17 a.m. Beijing time, according to the center. It was the 228th flight …
NASA called off an attempt to inflate an experimental habitat attached to the International Space Station after the fabric module failed to expand as planned on Thursday. Station crew member Jeff Williams spent more than two hours opening a valve to allow spurts of air to inflate the 3,100-pound (1,400 …
An analysis of radar images that peered inside the polar ice caps of Mars shows that Earth's neighbor is coming out of an ice age that is part of an ongoing cycle of climate change, scientists said on Thursday. The Martian ice began its retreat about 370,000 years ago, marking …
Scientists have found evidence for widespread buried deposits of iron- and calcium-rich carbonates on Mars, which suggests that the red planet once hosted habitable environments with liquid water. "Identification of these ancient carbonates and clays on Mars represents a window into history when the climate on Mars was very different …
A world-leading aerospace society has awarded its top prize on ground testing to a Chinese scientist for the first time, demonstrating China's great strides in the field, academic journal Acta Aerodynamica Sinica reported recently. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) presented the Ground Testing Award 2016 to Jiang …
The International Space Station launched CubeSat, a mini-satellite that is first of its kind. The miniature satellite was a breakthrough project built by a group of grade school students from St, Thomas More Cathedral School in Virginia. Prior to being launched in space, it was first deployed to the space …
The spacecraft, once commissioned, will bring to 14 the number of platforms in the EU's version of GPS. With another four satellites set to go up in a few months, Galileo is now on course to start the public transmission of initial navigation and timing services before the end of …
India has developed a reusable space shuttle and a test version of it is ready to be launched this month. Space exploration is a complex science which is why it is understandable for whoever engaged in space science to spend billions of dollars in developing their technology alone. India isn't …
NASA built the biggest and most powerful rocket ever made, the Space Launch System (SLS) which can carry as mush as 143 tons of weight and will enable an on-board crew spacecraft, Orion, to travel deeper into space where no crew has gone before. The Space Launch System or SLS …
Chinese scientists launched a sounding rocket from south China's Hainan Province in the early hours of Wednesday. Kunpeng-1B was launched from Danzhou City at 2 a.m. by the National Space Science Center (NSSC). The rocket fulfilled its mission of taking measurements in the upper atmosphere that will help with research …
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1a space rocket from the newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Far Eastern Amur region in the early hours of Thursday, TASS news agency reported. The rocket blasted off from the cosmodrome at 5:01 a.m. Moscow time (0201 GMT), one day after the first launch attempt was aborted …
SEOUL, April 27 (Xinhua) -- South Korea and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on space cooperation to jointly explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, Seoul's foreign ministry said. The signing event was held during the opening ceremony of the second South Korea-U.S. civil space dialogue …
The European Space Agency launched a satellite on 25 April to track the progress of global warming, as part of its Copernicus project. The Sentinel-1B joins its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to deliver information for various services, from monitoring ice in polar seas to tracking land subsidence, the ESA …
The Chinese recently celebrated Space Day with the proclamation of their mission to Mars. But they set their eyes for more than that. China wanted to become the next space giant and in order to make that happen, they are developing their own Space Station which is scheduled to be …
