Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that after the success of Chandrayaan-1, India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to launch an exclusive weather satellite jointly with the French space agency CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) in ...

India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has achieved a major break through when the moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard Chandrayan-1, discovered iron-bearing minerals on moon's surface. As per a statement of ...

The design work of Chandrayaan II has been completed and it will be launched by 2012. This news was revealed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday (December 24). While attending a function in New Delhi, the ISRO chairperson G. Madhavan Nair informed that with everything ...

Designed by ‘Scaled Composites’, the huge and unique ‘WhiteKnightTwo’ mothership rolled down the runway and muscled itself into the air using four Pratt and Whitney PW308A turbofan engines. The ‘WhiteKnightTwo’ flew for about an hour, departing the runway at ...

The European satellite W2M developed by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) was successfully placed into earth's orbit on December 21. According to reports, the commercial satellite was put into geosynchronous transfer orbit, about 36,000 km above earth after being launched from Kourou ...

The India-Russia joint manned space mission, slated for sometime in 2013 is expected to carry ISRO scientific personnel on board the spacecraft. This will be different from the historic 1984 flight when Indian Air Force squadron leader Rakesh Sharma made it to space on board the Soyuz ...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has entered into an agreement with the Russian Space Agency to successfully execute the Indian man mission to moon. Both the sides will share critical equipments to enhance the space programme. During the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to India, ...

An international team is building the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic, deep beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. Dubbed 'IceCube', the telescope will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica when it is completed in 2011, opening super-sensitive new eyes into the ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch the 'W2M satellite', a communication satellite developed by the agency, from French Guyana on December 20. It will be another milestone for the apex space research organisation after the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1 earlier ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the traces of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. As per NASA, the Jupiter-sized planet, called HD 189733b which lies 63 light-years away contains the basic chemistry for life. Although the planet is hot but the ...

After successfully placing the unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-I in the lunar orbit, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to send a manned mission into the space. While making the announcement of the proposed plan, the chairman of ISRO, G. Madhavan Nair stated that executing manned ...

The US space agency NASA has introduced a new dimension to space communications by successfully testing the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. The engineers at NASA have transmitted number of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided to set up an atmospheric studies centre near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh. The new facility will focus on advanced atmospheric studies. The news of world class facility for atmospheric studies was revealed by the chief of ISRO, G. Madhavan ...

The moon impact probe (MIP) successfully landed on the lunar surface on November 14, 2008. Earlier the unmanned lunar space craft Chandrayaan-1 was maneuvered on the desired destination at lunar orbit (about 100 km above the moon's surface) on November 12. According to the chief of Indian ...

India's moon mission has achieved its final success as the unmanned lunar spacecraft; Chandrayaan-1 has been successfully placed in the lunar orbit at about 100 km from moon's surface. According to the Director of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), S. Satish, the space craft will execute ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) reduced the orbital height of the lunar space craft, Chandrayaan-1. The spacecraft was successfully inserted into lunar orbit on November 8, 2008. Chandrayaan-1 reached the lunar orbit with an aposelene (farthest point from the moon) of 7,502 km and a ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) seems to have come up with better answer for Google Earth with the announcement of the launch of its IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) image portal. The new image portal of ISRO called Bhuvan is supposed to operate more efficiently and powerfully than Google ...

NASA has unveiled a next generation lunar rover which aims to facilitate astronauts in their mission return to the moon by 2020. According to NASA source, the battery powered rover travels at speeds of up to 6 mph. The latest launch is part of a range of systems and equipment being developed by ...

NASA on Monday has reported that its Phoenix has first time experienced falling snow on Mars. Also, the Phoenix spacecraft has discovered two minerals on Mars, which suggest that the Mars had water in it at some point of time. The two minerals calcium carbonate and sheet silicate, according to ...

China has crossed another milestone in its space program. The country successfully launched its first spacewalk mission, touted to be the most challenging and 'sacred' mission till date, on Thursday - 25th September 2008. As a part of the mission, China launched its third manned spacecraft - ...

Scientists from the Montreal University of Canada claim that they have discovered the most massive star of our galaxy Milky Way. They say they have discovered a star that weighs 116 times that of sun. The researchers of Montreal University were partnered by an international team of astrophysicists ...

An international team of astrophysicists led by CRAQ (the Centre de recherche en astrophysique du Quebec) of Canada has found the biggest star of the universe. According to CRAQ of Universite de Montreal researchers the new star of a binary system with a mass 116 times greater than that of the Sun, ...

The ambitious project Chandrayaan-1 will take off from Sriharikota Space Center in Andhra Pradesh on October 19. Weather permitting, the cuboid-shaped spacecraft will carry with it payloads of six foreign countries - the US, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Bulgaria - apart from those of India. The ...

According to NASA, owing to the conflict of interest in different bodies involved in Mars Mission project there has been a loss of millions of dollars. However, NASA is unwilling to disclose the party who could be held responsible for such a big delay. But it said that it has not been the cause ...

The biggest particle collider of the world has executed its first important test successfully by shooting a beam of protons around a 27 km (17 mile) tunnel on Wednesday, September 10, 2008. The scientists around the world are calling it the next most remarkable step towards understanding the ...

As per a report published by the Wen Wei Po, a Hong Kong newspaper, China will carry out its third manned space flight sometime in the second half of September this year. This mission initiates the second phase of Project 921. Even though the newspaper did not mention a source, it stated that the ...

Nearly after one year of exploration, Mars rover 'Opportunity' will come out of a giant crater. The rover meanwhile examined exposed ancient rock layers and has been helpful in sending much useful information about the Red Planet. Bruce Banerdt, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena ...

NASA sources have revealed that Phoenix Mars Lander has recently dug up the soil sample in the Mars, and has delivered the same in many small ovens with it. Earlier, the Phoenix confirmed the existence of ice about four centimeters below the surface. Now, with the latest effort it is looking at a ...

India will be a party to an unmanned mission to moon called Chandrayaan-1. According to reports, there are seven other members who are coordinating NASA in its effort for the exploration of moon, and India would be the next one in the row. There has been confirmation of the same from the ...

Astronomers have found a new minor planet at the distance of 3.2 billion km from Earth. However, some of astronomers are of opinion that it is a comet. The planet termed as 2006 SQ372 is 96 km wide is slightly closer to the Earth than the planet Neptune. Its orbit period to the Sun is 22,500-year. ...