Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
The Indian Space Research Organisation(Isro) is working on a plan to launch re-usable rockets within next 10 to 15 years that will take off from the ground to orbit and return just like any aircraft carrying people and payload, said G Madhvan Nair, Chairman of Isro.
Set To Be Launched In 2017, A Craft With 15Inch Heat Shield Will Come Within 20M Miles Of Solar Surface London: For over 400 years, astronomers have studied the Sun from afar. Now, a team at European Space Agency, with backing from Nasa, is planning to send two space missions …
T E Narasimhan / Sriharikota April 21, 2009, 0:25 IST The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) says it plans to send two humans into orbit in the next seven years. This is part of a Rs 12,400-crore project it has sent to the government for approval. The Planning Commission has …
India on Monday successfully launched a new-age all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT-2 that would not just significantly enhance the country's capability for earth observation but could also be used for surveillance purposes. The 300-kg, 44-m tall RISAT-2, which has been built in association with Israel Aerospace Industries, can take high-resolution …
An asteroid is hurtling toward the planet and threatens to destroy life as we know it. What can humankind do, other than cower? Tie the thing down, suggests aerospace engineer David French of North Carolina State University. He has proposed a way to divert asteroids and other threatening objects by …
John Grunsfeld was sitting in an astronomical meeting in Atlanta in January of 2004 when he got a message to come back to headquarters in Washington to talk about the Hubble Space Telescope. To say that he was excited would be an understatement. As an astronaut, Dr. Grunsfeld had twice …
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi and a Russian-American crew touched down safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Charred black from its re-entry into atmosphere, the capsule -- also carrying U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov -- landed north-east of the Kazakh industrial …
Stereo journey the mission During their journey, the space- craft will use a wide-field-of-view telescope to look for asteroids orbit- ing the region. Two identical Nasa spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon originated. The spacecraft duet, …
Ranchi, March 30: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G. Madhavan Nair today assured the management of Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) Limited, Ranchi, that the latter
Cape Canaveral: Confronted with orbiting junk again, Nasa ordered the astronauts aboard the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of a piece of debris on Sunday. Discovery
Two visiting space shuttle astronauts floated outside the ISS on Thursday to hook up a final set of solar panel wings to bring the orbital outpost to full power. Spacewalkers Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold spent six hours outside the station during the first of three spacewalks planned for the …
KOLLAM: ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that the country will be able to develop its own earth observation satellite within two years. Interacting with the students of TKM Engineering College as part of the Conjura 09, technical symposium on national security, Madhavan Nair said that with the development …
As the country readies to put human on a space flight, scientists are busy developing next generation rockets that can carry more astronauts and put heavier satellites in the orbit. The Geo-stationary Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk III), expected to be launched within three years, will give the …
