Features
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July 30, 2024
EXCLUSIVE
ISRO – Leading India's Space Odyssey
In the most comprehensive account of Indian space, its tech advancement, and its futuristic missions, Manish Kumar Jha speaks with S. Somanath, Chairman, ISRO, distinguished Scientist & Secretary, Department of Space.
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June 28, 2024
Indian Defence startups break into hyperspectral imaging small satellites in space
By Manish Kumar JhaA breakthrough in small and advanced multi-sensor satellites opens further ground for critical hyperspectral imaging in Indian space.
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March 30, 2024
Another success for ISRO with the Autonomous Landing Experiment
By Ayushee ChaudharyISRO achieved a major milestone in the area of Reusable launch vehicle (RLV) technology, through the RLV LEX-02 landing experiment, the second of the series.
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December 5, 2023
NASA Chief visits India, strengthens Space cooperation
By Ayushee ChaudharyAhead of the launch of NISAR early next year, the NASA Chief's visit spelled out the significance of space in diplomacy and collaboration between the two nations in space exploration
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August 9, 2023
Rovers pave the way for interplanetary exploration
By Ayushee ChaudharyFrom Mars to Moon, robotic rovers have been instrumental in exploring and understanding the surface of other celestial bodies establishing a strong base of information.
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July 17, 2023
Driving India's Progress in Space
By Neetu Dhulia in MumbaiStrengthening India's Aerospace manufacturing capabilities, SP's Aviation witnesses Godrej Aerospace's remarkable impact on India's Space and Aviation sectors
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“Watch This Space”
By Ayushee ChaudharyOn June 10, 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated headquarters of IN-SPACe at Bopal, Ahmedabad. The new Indian space policy to come out soon.
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Mars is Active & Alive: Indian Scientists
By Ayushee ChaudharyIndian scientists from PRL have found frequent seismic activities on Mars that indicate important geological action on the Martian surface
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75 Satellites Marking 75 Years of Independence
By Lt General P.C. Katoch (Retd)Indian Technology Congress Association (ITCA) is playing the lead role in this mission for ensuring design, development, fabrication, testing and launching of the 75 nano-satellites, and is being supported by ISRO in the mission
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May 16, 2022
Sneak Peek into the heart of our galactic home
By Ayushee ChaudharyOn May 12, 2022 astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*.
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February 15, 2022
ISRO lights up the sky
By Ayushee ChaudharyLifting off the first of its 19 missions planned for this year, ISRO successfully placed three satellites into orbit.
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September 22, 2021
World's first all-civilian orbital mission to space accomplished successfully
By Ayushee ChaudharyInspiration4 crew returned after spending three days in the orbit, miles above the International Space Station
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August 10, 2021
India's space sector fueling several industries
By Ayushee ChaudharyMore scope for private entities, partnerships with international experts and organisations, better ability to function are strengthening India's space programme.
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August 6, 2021
Satellites, Samples & Station strengthening China's space footprint
By Ayushee ChaudharyChina's taikonauts recently conducted their first spacewalk aboard the multi-module space station, Tiangong.
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August 6, 2021
From Moon to Mars with Apollo & Artemis
By Ayushee ChaudharyNASA is gearing up to begin a new era of deep space exploration by returning humans to moon after about half a century, as a step to go to Mars and beyond.
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June 2, 2021
SpaceX strengthening sustainable commercial space flights
By Ayushee ChaudharyWith successful launches and commercial crew missions on the list, SpaceX is advancing cost-effective space travel.
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June 2, 2021
The extravagant space affair
By Ayushee ChaudharyAs companies reach closer to their developments of taking people beyond the earth, the excitement around space tourism continues to build
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May 31, 2021
Real time satellite communication to track Covid-19 resources
By Ayushee ChaudharySIA-India, a non-profit association has been created to represent the interests of the communication satellite ecosystem in India.
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May 11, 2021
Department of Space offers innovative collaborations to manage the crisis
By Ayushee ChaudharyThree ventilators and an oxygen concentrator have been developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and are soon expected to be commercially produced.
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March 25, 2021
ISRO continues to collaborate and breakthrough
By Ayushee ChaudharyThe Indian space agency has signed bilateral MoUs to set up incubation centres & successfully demonstrate country's first free-space quantum communication over 300 metres.
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March 15, 2021
NASA persevering strongly for inter-planetary human missions
By Ayushee ChaudharyFrom golden pictures of the rocks on Martian surface, to the sounds of the wind in Mars' thin atmosphere, NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover is constantly keeping "earthlings" on their toes.
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March 9, 2021
Exclusive to SP's
India's space industry needs more awareness, acknowledgment & appreciation: SKI CEO
By Ayushee ChaudharyFollowing the successful feat in ISRO's latest PSLV-C51 launch, SpaceKidz India's CEO Dr. Srimathy Kesan sat down amid ecstatic joy for an exclusive interaction with Ayushee Chaudhary of SP's on the occasion of international women's day.
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March 2, 2021
With 2021's first launch, ISRO steers new age of space reforms
By Ayushee ChaudharyIndia's PSLV-C51 launched the first satellite designed, integrated and operated by Brazil along with 18 co-passenger satellites.
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July 7, 2020
India’s space sector opens up for private participation in a historic reform
By Ayushee ChaudharyThis is expected to let the country surge in space activities, make way for large-scale employment and become a global technology powerhouse.
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June 3, 2020
SpaceX brings back human spaceflight to the United States
By Ayushee ChaudharyThis mission marked the first time a commercially developed space vehicle, owned and operated by a private entity rather than NASA, carried Americans into orbit.
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September 28, 2019
Vikram had a hard landing, states NASA
By Ayushee ChaudharyThe U.S. space agency revealed the first pictures of the landing site on the lunar surface where India's ambitious moon mission's lander was scheduled to soft-land.
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September 25, 2019
Lunar night casts shadow on possible re-communications with Vikram
By Ayushee ChaudharyChandrayaan-2's Orbiter continues to satisfactorily perform science experiments while revolving around the moon even as the Lander and the Rover of the mission have been lost.
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September 9, 2019
Lander location traced, communication still remains uncertain
By Ayushee ChaudharyOver 24 hours after the mission control center in Bengaluru lost communication with the Chandrayaan-2 Lander, Vikram, its location was detected by the Orbiter revolving around the moon.
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September 7, 2019
All is not lost even as Vikram loses communication
By Ayushee ChaudharyMinutes before Chandrayaan-2 was about to get completed and accomplish its final phase of soft landing on the moon, all communications were lost with the lander, Vikram of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft.
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September 2, 2019
Lander Vikram separates successfully from Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter
By Ayushee ChaudharyInching closer to maiden discoveries, Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is scheduled to have a soft landing on Moon's South Polar Region through its lander Vikram on September 7.
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August 21, 2019
One orbit closer: Chandrayaan-2 successfully inserted into lunar orbit
By Ayushee ChaudharyThe spacecraft will now be performing a series of orbit maneuvers before the soft landing on the lunar surface on September 7.
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July 22, 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lifts off; spacecraft successfully injected into Earth Orbit
By Ayushee ChaudharyIndia's first mission to land on the lunar surface will explore Moon's unexplored region- the South Pole and make India the fourth country globally to achieve soft-landing on Earth's only natural satellite.
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July 16, 2019
What makes Chandrayaan-2 India's most complex and ambitious space mission?
By Ayushee ChaudharyIndia's second lunar mission and the first to soft-land on the lunar surface is sure to establish it globally as a significant space power but only if it does not face any more delays after the seventh one recently.
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July 15, 2019
India's ambitious Moon mission suffers yet another delay
By Ayushee ChaudharyWith a technical issue that emerged just about an hour before the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the wait to reach the Moon is still not over for the nation
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July 2, 2019
Russia to train Indian astronauts
By Ayushee ChaudharyFirst deputy Director General of Glavkosmos Natalia Lokteva and Director of Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC) Dr. S.Unnikrishnan Nair signed a contract on June 27, 2019.
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June 15, 2019
India setting up agency to develop weapons for space warfare
By Vishal ThaparSpace weapons to be made in close coordination with military
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May 22, 2019
PSLV-C46, carrying RISAT-2B successfully launched by ISRO on Wednesday
By Ayushee ChaudharyFollowing two successful PSLV launches earlier this year, ISRO conducted yet another successful launch with PSLV-C46 carrying the earth observation satellite, RISAT-2B which is also expected to be used for military surveillance.
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April 12, 2019
Pentagon strongly defends India's A-SAT test, says threats justify the step
By Vishal ThaparWhile US expresses support, there are calls for rules of conduct in space
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April 12, 2019
Israel's Beresheet, the first privately funded spacecraft, ends before landing on lunar surface
By Ayushee ChaudharyWith the Israeli spacecraft's crash, the country nearly missed becoming the fourth in the list of nations to have landed on the surface of the moon.
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April 6, 2019
India announces virtual moratorium on A-SAT tests, claims satellite kill capability up to a range of 1,000 km
By Vishal Thapar & Ayushee ChaudharyNo threat of debris to International Space Station, says DRDO chief, dismisses NASA fears
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April 4, 2019
Damage to landing spacecraft delays India's moon mission
By Ayushee ChaudharyChandrayaan-2 involves a landing on the Moon's South Pole, where NASA had earlier discovered ice. Only Russia, US and China have landed spacecraft on the lunar surface earlier.
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April 2, 2019
NASA chief terms India's ASAT missile test unacceptable after presence of threatening orbital debris
By Ayushee Chaudhary'Mission Shakti' demonstrates India's capability to safeguard its growing space-based assets and deter adversaries from creating trouble in a new battlefield
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April 1, 2019
PSLV-C45 successfully launched EMISAT and 28 global satellites in ISRO's first three orbit mission
By Ayushee ChaudharyStationed successfully in PSLV's longest mission, India's first electronic surveillance satellite, EMISAT, using electronic intelligence is expected to aid radars in accurately tracking locations
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March 27, 2019
Space is the new battlefront: India conducts a surprise Anti-Satellite missile test
By Vishal ThaparBallistic Missile Defence interceptor tweaked for capability to destroy enemy satellites
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July 20, 2017
Cassini: Mission Accomplished
By R. ChandrakanthCassini-Huygens has been described by NASA's Planetary Science Division Director as a "mission of firsts" that has revolutionized human understanding of the Saturn system, including its moons and rings, and our understanding of where life...
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September 24, 2014
India's Mars Mission: History Created
By ChandrakanthIndian Air Force's Mirage 2000 upgrade programme has started fructifying. The first two have arrived in Jamnagar from Istres, France at around 2:15 pm, yesterday. Flown by IAF pilots from France to India via Greece, Egypt and Qatar over a period of seven days.