ISRO’s RLV LEX boosts indigenous tech to power India’s defence needs
Apr 04, 2023, at 08:54 pm
Bengaluru: As the scientists at ISRO broke the news of launch of Reusable Launch Vehicle’s Autonomous Landing Mission, RLV LEX, at Chitradurga, Karnataka on Sunday morning the entire country rejoiced at this unique milestone with several firsts that bolstered India’s image several notches high.
Massive 150-foot asteroid approaching Earth on April 6: NASA warns
Apr 04, 2023, at 05:42 am
As many as five asteroids are approaching Earth with two of them making their closest approaches to the planet on Monday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said in a statement.
Earth images captured by EOS-06 satellite released by ISRO
Mar 30, 2023, at 10:31 pm
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the images of earth captured by EOS-06 Satellite launched by its reliable launch vehicle PSLV on November 26, 2022.
ISRO's LVM-M3/OneWeb-India 2 mission launched successfully
Mar 26, 2023, at 06:16 pm
Sriharikota(AP)/IBNS/UNI: In a dedicated second commercial launch, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully accomplished the LVM-M3 mission.
Hyderabad’s Svaya Robotics develops quadruped robot and exoskeleton for defence sector
Mar 17, 2023, at 04:53 am
Hyderabad/IBNS: Hyderabad-based Svaya Robotics in collaboration with DRDO Labs -Research and Development Establishment, Pune (RDE) and Defense Bio-engineering Electro Medial Laboratory, Bangalore (DEBEL), have developed India’s first quadruped robot and the exo-skeleton, both technology demonstrators.
ISRO to launch 2nd batch of One Web's 36 satellites using LVM-3 on Mar 26
Mar 16, 2023, at 09:03 pm
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch 36 satellites for UK-based OneWeb from the Sriharikota spaceport On March 26, at 9.00 a.m.
Feb 27, 2023, at 10:09 pm
Liverpool: Researchers from the University of Liverpool have tested whether the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT could be used to make decisions about prescribing patients with antibiotics.
40 percent of time spent on mundane chores could be automated within 10 years, say AI experts
Feb 27, 2023, at 04:05 pm
London: Grocery shopping is the most ‘automatable’ household task Childcare is the least automatable domestic task Experts in UK and Japan divide on how much time will be saved.
‘More women and girls in science equals better science’, UN chief declares
Feb 11, 2023, at 08:53 pm
New York: Gender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution is simple: increase the numbers of women working in the field and support the girls hoping to join them one day.
Huge piece of Sun breaks off, leaves scientific community stunned
Feb 11, 2023, at 04:34 am
A new development in the Sun has left scientists baffled as they found out that a huge part of its surface has broken off.
SSLV-D2 successfully injects EOS-07, 2 other satellites in orbit
Feb 10, 2023, at 04:38 pm
Sriharikota/UNI: India's second developmental flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D2) on Friday successfully launched ISRO's Earth Observation Satellites (EOS-07) and two other co-passenger satellites into the desired orbit on Friday from the SHAR Range here.
ISRO: SSLV-D2 successfully injects EOS-07, 2 other satellites in orbit
Feb 10, 2023, at 03:27 pm
Sriharikota: India's second developmental flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D2) on Friday successfully launched ISRO's Earth Observation Satellites (EOS-07) and two other co-passenger satellites into the desired orbit from the SHAR Range here.
Russia to conduct first space launch in 2023 on Feb 5: Space Center
Jan 22, 2023, at 02:28 pm
Moscow/UNI: Russia's first space launch in 2023 will take place on Feb 5, when a Proton-M rocket will carry the fourth Elektro–L meteorological satellite into orbit, the Yuzhny Space Center of the Baikonur cosmodrome said.
Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to be sent to International Space Station
Jan 12, 2023, at 05:30 am
Moscow: The Soyuz MS-23 rescue spacecraft will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) via unmanned mode on February 20, the Soyuz MS-22 with a damaged cooling system will return to Earth without a crew, Russian state space agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
Researchers in six categories awarded Infosys Prize 2022
Jan 08, 2023, at 09:44 pm
Bengaluru: The Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) on Saturday awarded the winners of the Infosys Prize 2022 for their significant contributions to research at a presentation ceremony in Bengaluru.
Dec 28, 2022, at 11:32 pm
Guwahati: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati researchers have studied the efficacy of a specific bacterial endoglucanase enzyme, RfGH5_4 from Ruminococcus flavefaciens in breaking down woody biomatter into simple sugar that can be fermented efficiently to produce bioethanol – a promising renewable fuel that can replace petroleum-based fuel systems.
NASA's Orion spacecraft returns to Earth after moon missions
Dec 13, 2022, at 12:54 am
Los Angeles/UNI: NASA's Orion spacecraft returned to Earth after making an uncrewed mission around the moon.
Construction to begin on world's biggest telescope
Dec 05, 2022, at 08:43 pm
London/UNI: One of the grand scientific projects of the 21st century began its construction phase on Monday.
PSLV-C54 multi-orbital mission success, launches EOS-06, 8 nano satellites in orbit
Nov 26, 2022, at 08:22 pm
Sriharikota: India's workhorse launch vehicle PSLV-C54 on Saturday successfully launched the 1,117 kg Earth Observation Satellite-06 EOS-06 and eight nano satellites in different Orbits.
India's first private rocket Vikram-S lifts off from SHAR Range
Nov 18, 2022, at 08:20 pm
Sriharikota: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday heralded a new milestone when it successfully launched the country's first private rocket Vikram-S, named Prarambh from this spaceport.
Skyroot Aerospace Vikram-S Mission: India's first privately made rocket ready for launch on Friday
Nov 18, 2022, at 06:10 am
Sriharikota: All eyes are on the space launch of India's first privately made rocket by Telangana-based startup Skyroot Aerospace.
Calcutta's Suman Chakraborty bags Infosys award for elucidating interaction of fluid mechanics
Nov 15, 2022, at 09:32 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Calcutta's Suman Chakraborty, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of R&D at IIT, Kharagpur, won the Infosys Prize 2022 in the field of Engineering and Computer Science for elucidating the interaction of fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, and electromechanics at both micro and nanoscale.
Gaganyaan: Test flights for India's maiden unmanned space flights to start from Feb
Oct 28, 2022, at 03:33 am
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start the test flights for India's maiden human space flight mission -- Gaganyaan -- from February next year, said R Umamaheshwaran, Director of ISRO's Human Space Flight Centre on Thursday, according to media reports.
Partial Solar Eclipse begins in India
Oct 25, 2022, at 10:38 pm
Hyderabad: The first visible partial solar eclipse in 2022 and also the last in this year, began in India on Tuesday.
ISRO lifts off India's heaviest rocket with 36 satellites on board
Oct 23, 2022, at 02:59 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Sunday launched 36 satellites using its heaviest rocket just after midnight, at 12.07 am.
ISRO to launch 36 broadband satellites today: Countdown begins for LVM3-M2/One Web India-1 mission
Oct 22, 2022, at 11:23 pm
Sriharikota: The 24 hour countdown for the tomorrow's morning launch of 36 satellites of the UK-based One Web using the heaviest rocket Launcher GSLV-MkIII--rechristened as LVM3-M2--from the spaceport of Sriharikota, SHAR Range, commenced today morning.
Khushboo Mirza: Chandrayaan scientist is an inspiration for girls in space science
Oct 22, 2022, at 06:49 pm
21 IIT Guwahati Researchers selected among World’s Top 2 percent Scientists List
Oct 12, 2022, at 09:27 pm
Guwahati: A total of 21 Researchers and faculty members from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, including Prof. T. G. Sitharam, Director of the Institute, have been featured among the world’s Top 2 per cent Scientists List created by Stanford University, US.
NASA confirms DART Mission impact changed asteroid’s motion in space
Oct 12, 2022, at 02:28 pm
Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit. This marks humanity’s first time purposely changing the motion of a celestial object and the first full-scale demonstration of asteroid deflection technology.
Oct 06, 2022, at 01:40 am
Stockholm/IBNS: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”.