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India adds GSAT-17 to its communication satellite fleet |
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Chennai | Thursday, 2017 9:45:04 AM IST |
| India on Thursday added GSAT-17 to its fleet of communication satellites after it was launched into orbit by heavy lift rocket Ariane 5 from Kourou in French Guiana, said European Space Agency Arianespace. ... read.. |
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Indian students win global aerospace competition |
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Dehradun | Wednesday, 2017 6:15:05 PM IST |
| Students from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) here have left behind 39 teams from across the world by winning the first position at the global aerospace competition CanSat held in Texas, US, this year. ... read.. |
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Israeli Nobel laureates laud Modi |
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Lindau (Germany) | Wednesday, 2017 5:45:05 PM IST |
| Excited over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming visit to Israel, Israeli Nobel laureates have called him "courageous" and "honest" and expressed confidence in his abilities to "fix" India. ... read.. |
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Uranus' unusual rotation creates light switch effect: Study |
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New York | Tuesday, 2017 4:15:04 PM IST |
| Uranus' magnetosphere -- the region defined by the icy planet's magnetic field and the material trapped inside it -- gets flipped on and off like a light switch every day as it rotates along with the planet, scientists have discovered. ... read.. |
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NASA says no pending announcement on alien life |
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Washington | Tuesday, 2017 10:45:04 AM IST |
| US space agency NASA said that it has no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life, following a wave of media reports that it was about to announce the evidence of alien life. ... read.. |
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Shape of bird egg related to flight ability |
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New York | Friday, 2017 6:45:04 PM IST |
| In what could perhaps crack the long-term mystery behind the astonishing variety of bird egg shapes, an international team of researchers has found that the egg shape is related to flight ability, with good fliers tending to lay pointy or elliptical eggs. ... read.. |
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Congratulations pour in for ISRO on new milestone |
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New Delhi | Friday, 2017 5:15:05 PM IST |
| Congratulations poured in for ISRO on Friday after it successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites from 14 countries, with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra ... read.. |
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Decade-old wait ends as NIUSAT put into orbit |
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Chennai/Thiruvananthapuram | Friday, 2017 3:15:04 PM IST |
| It was a proud moment for Noorul Islam University on Friday as the Indian rocket PSLV lifted off successfully with the varsity-made nano satellite NIUSAT along with ISRO's Cartosat and 29 co-passenger foreign satellites. ... read.. |
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NASA to support ESA's gravitational wave space mission |
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Washington | Friday, 2017 1:15:06 PM IST |
| The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to study gravitational waves in space - a mission in which NASA will partner with ESA in design, development, operations and data analysis. ... read.. |
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ISRO rocket lifts off with Cartosat, 30 other satellites |
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Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) | Friday, 2017 10:15:04 AM IST |
| An Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Friday morning lifted off successfully with the country's earth observation satellite Cartosat and 30 co-passenger satellites (29 foreign and one Indian). ... read.. |
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Government launches VAJRA scheme to attract Indian scientists abroad |
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New Delhi | Thursday, 2017 9:45:05 PM IST |
| In a bid to bring together the Indian scientists abroad and India-based researchers for conducting joint researches in India, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) on Thursday launched a scheme named "Visiting Advanced Joint Research Faculty (VAJ ... read.. |
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Scientists pave way for breakthrough in 'carbon neutral' cars |
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Canberra | Thursday, 2017 3:15:06 PM IST |
| Carbon neutral cars have moved a step closer to reality after Australian scientists developed a new way to successfully use solar energy to turn naturally-occurring carbon dioxide (CO2) into a "clean" synthetic form of natural gas. ... read.. |
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Government approach to GM tech is emotion-based, says Mahyco |
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Jalna (Maharashtra) | Thursday, 2017 1:45:07 PM IST |
| With a decision to allow commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard pending, a top executive of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco), that has developed several GM crops, said its concern was that the government's approach towards GM ... read.. |
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Astronomers find massive disk-shaped dead galaxy |
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Washington | Thursday, 2017 11:45:04 AM IST |
| Astronomers have detected a first-of-its kind compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang. ... read.. |
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Countdown for India's Cartosat satellite launch begins |
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Chennai | Thursday, 2017 11:45:04 AM IST |
| The 28-hour countdown for the Friday launch of India's earth observation satellite Cartosat and 30 co-passenger satellites with Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) began on Thursday, ISRO said. ... read.. |
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