Aerospace

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GSAT-11, ISRO’s Heaviest Satellite, Launched Successfully

The satellite is meant to boost broadband services in...

ISRO’s Earth Observation Satellite HysIS Sends First Image

The 380-kg HysIS is meant to study the earth’s...

NASA Deep Space Probe Reaches Asteroid Deemed Potential Earth Threat

Reuters 04/12/2018

A 'touch-and-go' manoeuvre of OSIRIS-REx is planned to snatch...

International Space Station (ISS) crew members David Saint-Jacques of Canada, Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Anne McClain of the U.S. attend a send-off ceremony shortly before their launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan December 3, 2018. Credit: Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via REUTERS

Russia Launches First Manned Voyage to ISS Since Rocket Accident

Shamil Zhumatov 03/12/2018

The launch was closely scrutinised because of the abortive...

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Strapped with India’s HysIS, ISRO to Launch PSLV-C43 on November 29

The Wire Staff 28/11/2018

Thirty micro- and nano-satellites from customers in eight countries –...

One of the Vanguard satellites in Florida in 1958. Credit: NASA

The Uneasy Alliance Between Astrophysics and Warfare

Mark Wolverton 27/11/2018

In their book 'Accessory to War', Neil deGrasse Tyson...

FILE PHOTO: NASA's InSight spacecraft, destined for the Elysium Planitia region located in Mars' northern hemisphere, undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., April 6, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Gene Blevins/File Photo

NASA’s InSight Lands on Mars to Peer Into Planet’s Deep Interior

Steve Gorman 27/11/2018

InSight's descent and landing, consisting of about 1,000 individual...