A rising number of women are opting for career in science and research. Beginning today, Hindustan Times starts a new weekly column on women scientists of tricity. Featured first in the ten-part series is Ipsita Biswas, a scientist at the Terminal Ballistics... read more

The DRDO has maintained that the interceptor missile could have killed a satellite at a height of more than 1,000 km but India intentionally chose to demonstrate the capability in the low earth orbit at a range of less than 300 km to avoid the threat... read more

Criticising India for the tests, NASA had described it as a “terrible, terrible” thing that had endangered the International Space Station (ISS). read more

India has work ahead to do in developing non-kinetic ASAT technologies that China too is pursuing, as well as ABM technologies read more

VK Saraswat also criticised those who have questioned the results of the “surgical strike” by the Indian Air Force after the terror attack in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, in February. read more

The Indian satellite was destroyed at a low altitude of 300 kilometres, well below the ISS and most satellites in orbit. read more

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday put into orbit the Emisat, an electronic intelligence satellite for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in a copy book style. read more

After talking to senior DRDO and ministry of external affairs officials dealing with missile program, Hindustan Times has learnt that India will have to create an authority on the lines of Nuclear Command Authority so that the threat that leads to activation... read more

Orbital security can easily suffer from the tragedy of the commons unless states rake proactive measures read more

Earlier in the day, Yadav attacked the BJP for not fielding senior leaders like Murli Manohar Joshi in the Lok Sabha polls and said its \"hypocritical morality\" has been exposed. read more

DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy has said that preparation for anti-satellite missile project began years ago but Mission Shakti went into ‘mission mode’ only six months ago. read more

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Three minutes and 10 seconds later, it struck the 6,900mm-wide heart of a Microstat-R satellite — orbiting 268km above the earth — over the Bay of Bengal, blowing it to bits. India launched the satellite almost two months ago to the day, on January ... read more

The prime minister stressed that India had not developed the capability against any country and the country was against arms race in space. In his interaction with the scientists, PM Modi stressed that “if you mean no harm to others, it is all the more... read more

The shooting down of the satellite with a missile reflected that “we have matured to develop technology which could achieve accuracy in terms of centimeters,” DRDO chairman Satheesh Reddy said. read more