Building blocks of life from space
We spend crores of rupees trying to go to the Moon and other planets and bring back rocks. But nature is bountiful, even lugging space debris to our door step free of cost. Read more
We spend crores of rupees trying to go to the Moon and other planets and bring back rocks. But nature is bountiful, even lugging space debris to our door step free of cost. Read more
Physicist Moumita Dutta from the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Space Applications Centre in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, was part of the team that put a probe into Mars orbit in 2014. In an interview with Elizabeth Gibney, a senior reporter for Nature based in London, she talks about the lure of optics, the challenge of crafting super-light sensors, and the rise in Indian women entering space science. Read more
Last night when news of APJ Abdul Kalam’s death spread thick and fast on social media – many heartbroken with the scientist/ex-President’s death and many wishing the news wasn’t true – one thing became clear. That this was not just the death of a scientist, a leading light of India’s space programme, or of the ‘People’s President’ – it was the demise of an adorable, all-round-good-natured, immensely accessible human being, rooted in his humble beginnings and untouched by the highs that fame brought. Read more
A virtually connected team of Indian aerospace engineers — based in India, USA, UK and The Netherlands — have emerged champions in a global biennial innovation challenge organised by UNESCO and the passenger aircraft manufacturing company Airbus. Read more
It will be the 100th space mission for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) tomorrow (September 9, 2012) as it launches another vehicle from its workhorse series — PSLV-C21. The 49-year-old organisation has come a long way with 62 satellites and 37 launches in its repertoire. ISRO’s first mission — the Aryabhatta satellite launched using a Russian rocket – dates back to1975. Read more
The year will close with another total lunar eclipse, though not as dark as the the mid-year eclipse of June 15, 2011. This one, to occur on the night of 10 December 2011, will have the advantage of a clear winter night. Read more
ISRO today released the first pictures of its Ocean satellite Oceansat-2 launched on September 23. Oceansat-2 is India’s second remote sensing satellite in the series that will study the ocean atmosphere. It replaces Oceansat-1 launched in 1999. Read more
©ISRO Close on the heels of Chandrayaan’s Moon water find, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has taken over as the President of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) headquartered in Paris. He is the first Indian space expert to be elected to the post. Among all the 25 Indian space missions under his tenure, the most significant was the successful launch of India’s first Moon mission Chandrayaan-1. Madhavan Nair was the Vice-President of scientific activities of the IAA for the last four years. He is the recipient of two of India’s biggest civilian honours Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan. His … Read more
New revelations from Indian’s moon mission Chandrayaan-1, despite its short lived glory, seem to be in the offing. Read more
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