The controversial Antrix-Devas deal has caught up with ISRO’s former chairman G. Madhavan Nair and three other space scientists, who have been barred from holding any government posts, present or future. In its order of January 13, the Department of Space states that the “former Officers of the Department of Space shall be excluded from [...]
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Alien planets are incredibly common in our own galaxy Milky Way and it may be having as many as 160 billion planets, a six-year-long study has suggested. According to the study, published in the journal Nature, there are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy and each of them hosts at least 1.6 planets on [...]
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Astronomers should start hunting for planets like the Tatooine in the science fiction series “Star Wars”, as Earth-like worlds could exist in the habitable zones around binary systems, scientists say. In the “Star Wars” universe, Tatooine was a circumbinary planet that had two Suns. In September last year, NASA’s Kepler space telescope had discovered the [...]
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HPTN 052 : The journal Science has lauded an eye-opening HIV study, known as HPTN 052, (HIV Prevention Trials Network ) as the most important scientific breakthrough of 2011. HPTN 052 is a Phase III, two-arm, multi-site, randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of two treatment strategies in preventing the sexual transmission of HIV in HIV-serodiscordant couples. The [...]
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China‘s mission to achieve a first-ever docking exercise in space, part of plans to build its own space station, was “a complete success”, said officials on November 17 as the unmanned Shenzhou-8 aircraft returned to Earth following a more than month-long docking exercise.As the spacecraft landed in the Gobi desert in the northern Inner Mongolia [...]
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“Rockets have to be made reusable, and we also need indigenous launch vehicles that can fly back like a normal aircraft, and can be made ready within a day to take another launch,” said P.S. Veeraraghavan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Research Centre, here on September 16 indicating how self-reliance, the use of home-grown technologies and focussed [...]
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A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station has touched down safely in the central steppes ofKazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications. NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of the city of [...]
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The design for NASA’s newest behemoth of a rocket harkens back to the giant workhorse liquid rockets that propelled men to the moon. But this time the destinations will be much farther and the rocket even more powerful. The Obama administration on September 14 will unveil its much-delayed general plans for its rocket design, called [...]
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The design for NASA’s newest behemoth of a rocket harkens back to the giant workhorse liquid rockets that propelled men to the moon. But this time the destinations will be much farther and the rocket even more powerful. The Obama administration on September 14 will unveil its much-delayed general plans for its rocket design, called [...]
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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is conducting a ‘Mars Habitat Design Competition’ for the college students of Kerala in connection with World Space Week celebrations from October 4 to 10. Participants are required to submit original design of Martian Habitat conceived by them. They should be creative and realistic considering the Martial atmosphere and the [...]
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An astronaut photograph of the Indo-Pakistan borderlands taken by the crew of the International Space Station of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 21 reveals the various large and small cities inIndiaandPakistanas clusters of yellow lights. The photographs were released by NASA on September 5. Of the hundreds of clusters, the largest ones [...]
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Amid requests from various countries for launch of their satellites,Indiahas decided to set up one more launch site to expand its capacity in this aspect. At a meeting held by the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary T.K.A. Nair here to review performance of the Department of Space, it was decided that a feasibility study would be [...]
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An astronaut photograph of the Indo-Pakistan borderlands taken by the crew of the International Space Station of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on August 21 reveals the various large and small cities inIndiaandPakistanas clusters of yellow lights. The photographs were released by NASA on September 5. Of the hundreds of clusters, the largest ones [...]
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NASA may not have enough astronauts in the post—shuttle era to keep the International Space Station staffed, a study released September 7 found. The US space agency has reduced its astronaut corps in recent years ahead of the July retirement of the shuttle fleet, but that number may not be sufficient if some astronauts leave [...]
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NASA may not have enough astronauts in the post—shuttle era to keep the International Space Station staffed, a study released September 7 found. The US space agency has reduced its astronaut corps in recent years ahead of the July retirement of the shuttle fleet, but that number may not be sufficient if some astronauts leave [...]
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