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Posters for Ekta Kapoor’s Mangalyaan Series Don’t Show ISRO Rockets – Why it Matters

Vasudevan Mukunth 12/06/2019

One poster shows the show’s protagonists flanking a Russian Soyuz...

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Review: Those Magnificent Women and Their Stories That Must Be Told

Jatan Mehta 29/04/2019

Minnie Vaid's new book, which profiles some of the...

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ISRO Doesn’t Have a Satisfactory Answer to Why It Wants to Put Indians in Space

Arup Dasgupta 04/03/2019

ISRO has come a long way in 50 years...

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Starship Alone Won’t Take Us to Mars – We’ll Need Lots of Enterprise Too

Prakash Chandra 05/12/2018

It surprises no one that since 1960, barely a...

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Why It Matters That India and the US Teamed up to Measure a Black Hole’s Spin

Jatan Mehta 09/11/2018

The black hole's spin rate also turned out to...

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For Space, and ISRO, Frugality Is a Tightrope Walk Not Worth Celebrating

Vasudevan Mukunth 21/02/2018

Saying “Chandrayaan 2 is cheaper than Interstellar” is pernicious...

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Why ISRO’s New Engine and Mk III Rocket Are Reasons to Forget 1990 Cryogenic Scandal

Vasudevan Mukunth 23/05/2017

Even though the US blocked the transfer of cryogenic...