Aerospace

The Long March-5 Y2 rocket takes off from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Wenchang

China’s New Heavy-Lift Rocket Launch Fails

Ben Blanchard 02/07/2017

The same rocket type had been expected to take...

An artist's impression of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite. Credit: JPL/NASA

Why Trump’s Views on Climate Change Will Have No Bearing on NASA-ISRO Satellite

Amit Raj Singh 30/06/2017

The Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, acronymised to NISAR, will...

file-20170628-7294-1ssrxrf

The Case for Putting Aside Dark Energy to Reevaluate General Relativity

David Wiltshire and Alan Coley 30/06/2017

If dark energy is just a grand illusion –...

On June 29, 2017, an Ariane 5 rocket launched the GSAT-17 and Hellas Sat 3-Inmarsat S EAN satellites into a geostationary transfer orbit. Credit: Arianespace

GSAT-17 Is the Latest in a Long Line of ‘Made in India, for India’ Communication Satellites

Gopal N. Raj 29/06/2017

Of the 31 communication satellites produced by ISRO, 19...

The size of Planet Nine, next to Earth and Neptune. PlanetUser/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why Astronomers Are Arguing Over ‘Planet Nine’, Which They Haven’t Observed Yet

Sandhya Ramesh 26/06/2017

It seems what everyone has been wishing for all...

file-20170621-30227-1tkxt1g

Could Asteroid Strikes Cause Mass Extinctions on Earth in Ten Million Years?

Sanna Alwmark and Matthias Meier 26/06/2017

Researchers are looking at whether devastating asteroid strikes are...

The GRASP instrument. Credit: ISAC/ISRO

ISRO’s Mk III Launched a Little-Known Instrument Called GRASP – This Is What It Does

R. Ramachandran 26/06/2017

GRASP will be important to design better electronics, to...