The first communications’ satellite of Kazakhstan, KazSat-1, has been put into the orbit for a space burial. This information was given by the mission control of the country on Friday.
 
KazSat-1, a $100 million communications’ satellite, had been built by Khrunichev Space Centre ...

The satellites JCSAT-12 and OPTUS D3 for Japan and Australia were successfully put into the orbit by the Ariane-5 rocket. This was informed by the space officials. The launch took place from French Guiana on Friday. 
 
The rocket left for the space from the European Space Agency's (ESA) ...

According to a source, the launch of the first carrier rocket of the South Korea is scheduled to happen to the 25 Aug 2009. The first carrier rocket will be launched from the Naro Space Centre of South Korea.
 
The launch of the first South Korean carrier rocket, KSLV-1, had been scheduled ...

The space shuttle Discovery will be launched on 25th of August.  The shuttle’s mission is to deliver supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS).
 
The shuttle has been scheduled for a 1.36 a.m. launch (0536 GMT) on Tuesday, by the review panel of ...

The first space satellite of South Korea is set for a launch on Wednesday.
 
The Russian made device, the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, was scheduled to launch  from the country's space centre on the south coast between 4.40 and 6.20 p.m. (0740 and 0920 GMT), according to an ...

The initial design phase of Chandrayaan 2 is now complete. While the design can have version changes, the initial one was vital as the aircraft design is very complex.
 
The Lunar Rover which Chandrayaan 2 will use for the collection of soil and data from the Lunar soil and send it to the ...

A nanosatellite developed by IIT Kanpur will provide real time data on flood vegetation,drought and forestation.This a big leap for India in its technology quest.
 
This satellite has been developed and designed by a group of students of IIT Kanpur.The satellite will be handed over to ISRO ...

Saturn’s day length has become shorter by 5 minutes has been estimated by an analysis of Saturn’s atmosphere.
 
According to the analysis, the time Saturn takes to complete a spin on its axis is 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds, more than five minutes shorter than previous ...

The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) first earth observation satellite, DubaiSat-1, was launched early on Thursday morning from Kazakhstan, has reached its desired position in the earth's orbit.
 
The satellite is now in its optimal position in orbit around the earth and has successfully ...

The astronauts made an inspection of the heat shield of Endeavour with lasers and cameras before its scheduled landing on Friday, has been informed by NASA.
 
Endeavour's thermal protection system was cleared for landing earlier in the flight. This late inspection is done to ensure that ...

ISRO and Ahmedabad-based Scanpoint Geomatics Ltd will develop an integrated geographic information system and image processing software (IGiS) to analyse satellite pictures and data.
 
It is a perfect option for geographical information system (GIS), image processing and its integration with ...

The crew of the space shuttle Endeavour bid farewell to their colleagues on the International Space Station on Tuesday to head back to Earth.
 
The space shuttle undocked at 1726 GMT, carrying its seven-member crew after 10 days, 23 hours and 39 minutes at the ISS. Japanese astronaut Koichi ...

Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar mission, has captured the shadow of the moon on the earth's surface during the July 22 total solar eclipse.
 
The images were captured by the special terrain mapping camera (TMC) on board the spacecraft.
 
"Chandrayaan tracked the movement of ...

US astronauts Tom Marshburn and Chris Cassidy installed video cameras on the International Space Station's new Japanese porch on Monday.
 
The work was the main task of a planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk that began about an hour ahead of schedule at 11:33 GMT.
 
The two cameras ...

US astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn on Friday undertook an intense spacewalk to change batteries on a solar panel of the International Space Station (ISS).
 
The astronauts replaced four batteries that collect and store energy from the station's solar panels .It took them seven ...

India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here on  Friday. The satellite weighing 4.5 tonnes will be more than twice as heavy as the ...

Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday used a robotic arm to place Japanese experiments outside the station.
 
Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata and US astronaut Tim Kopra took three payloads - consisting of experiments and communications equipment - out of a ...

NASA said on Thursday that it will release three new versions of the "classic images" taken by Chandra X-Ray Observatory to commemorate the telescope's 10th anniversary.
 
One of the images was released on Thursday, whiles the remaining two, would be released in the next three ...

When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon this week some 40 years ago, they showed no ill effects from a week spent in weightlessness. But as space men began conducting longer-duration space flights, scientists noticed a disturbing trend - the longer humans stay in zero gravity, the more ...

The US President, Barack Obama, welcomed the crew of Apollo 11 to the White House on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of their journey to the moon and called the three men "genuine American heroes."
 
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the ...

Every week Roger Launius, chief historian at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, devotes his time to debunking one of history's favourite such theories: That astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin never landed on the moon.
 
The entire July 20, 1969, landing and ...

THE NASA space shuttle, Endeavour, was launched on Wednesday on its sixth attempt to launch since June. This is headed to the International Space Station to expand Japan's Kibo module.
 
The seven-member crew is to deliver an outside porch on the module at the station to expose scientific ...

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), a unit of the country's premier Indian space research programme, plans to send two humans into space by 2015, an official said here Sunday.
 

Speaking to IANS, director of the VSSC unit here K. Radhakrishnan said the project is awaiting a final ...

The Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) system or Space Internet is going to be adopted by NASA missions to link planets by 2011. A report says that the next phase of DTN testing is being carried out and this would enable astronauts to google from moon and look into their observation from ...

Following the successful launch of Chandrayaan-I lunar mission, ISRO is set to launch the second mission in the year 2013 according to ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair.

Chandrayaan-I involved the launch of a satellite that orbited around the moon. The mainstay of the second mission is a Moon ...

Astronomers have discovered 16 pulsars in the space through NASA’s Fermi telescope. A pulsar is the spinning and magnetized core left behind when a big star explodes. 
 “Fermi has truly unprecedented power for discovering and studying gamma-ray pulsars,” said Paul Ray ...

New findings from the scientists at the University of Arizona-led Phoenix Mars Mission believe that water once flowed and the Red Planet was once habitable.

The scientists have published their findings today which states that the planet may have once supported simple forms of life. Apparently, ...

290 million light-years away from our planet, a magnificently bright stellar object could just be a new type of black-hole. Christened the HLX-1, it could be the best candidate to prove the existence of a certain class of black-holes.

A black-hole is a point in space-time where the space-time ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching its second ocean monitoring satellite in August, along with six European nano satellites.

Satish, ISRO's director (Publications and Public Relations), said that 952-kg OCEANSAT-2 would be an in-orbit replacement to OCEANSAT-1 and ...

NASA will take a giant step toward bringing humans back to the moon Tuesday as a new orbiting satellite arrives there to search for water.
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is expected to reach the moon's orbit at 0943 (GMT).

The LRO will send back data to help scientists find the best ...