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Indian Engineer Going Through NASA Data in ‘Spare Time’ Finds Vikram Lander Debris

The Wire Staff 03/12/2019

Shanmuga Subramanian tipped off NASA scientists in October after...

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ISRO’s Second Spaceport, for New SSLV Rocket, to Come up in Tamil Nadu

The Wire Staff 01/12/2019

Late last year, ISRO had said it was looking for a...

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Despite the Great IRS Tech, India’s Remote-Sensing Programme Remains a Downer

Pradeep Mohandas 28/11/2019

In the late 1990s, space agencies from around the...

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ISRO Launches Cartosat-3, 13 Commercial Nano Satellites Into Orbit

The Wire Staff 27/11/2019

The satellites were launched by India's PSLV-C47 from the...

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Thanks to Starlink There’s a New Void in Space: the Absence of Rules of the Road

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/11/2019

An abundance of financial incentives, a dearth of policies...

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ISRO Will Embark on Chandrayaan 3 by November 2020 for Another Landing Attempt

The Wire Staff 14/11/2019

The significant unknowns at this point include the cost...

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First Results From Voyager 2, the Spacecraft at the Edge of Interstellar Space

Jatan Mehta 04/11/2019

The twin Voyagers' observations have given us our first...