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Nasa spacecraft ‘touches’ the Sun. What this historic milestone means
According to Nasa, the success of the Parker Solar Probe represents much more than technological innovation. The spacecraft's landmark achievement has restored hope about solving age-old mysteries about the red-hot star.
Updated on Dec 15, 2021 11:04 AM IST
Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
‘Space? We have a lot to do here’: Bill Gates talks on space exploration
“I have become obsessed with things like Malaria and HIV and getting rid of those diseases and I would probably bore people at cocktail parties talking about diseases. Space? You know, we have a lot to do here on earth,” Bill Gates said.
Published on Sep 25, 2021 05:48 PM IST
Written by Srivatsan K C | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
NASA's Mars copter mission next month may pave the way for interplanetary flight
A tiny swath of wing fabric from the original Wright Brothers plane has been fastened underneath the helicopter's solar panel to pay homage to aviation history.
Updated on Mar 25, 2021 04:39 PM IST
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Photos: NASA's Perseverance Rover sends back panoramic view of landing site
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Published on Feb 26, 2021 04:48 PM IST
Space exploration’s next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts
As NASA opens up the International Space Station to private businesses and embarks on the Artemis mission to send astronauts back to the moon, there’s a growing recognition of the need to keep spending under control, even as space-exploration projects grow increasingly complex.
Updated on May 17, 2020 10:06 AM IST
Bloomberg| Posted by: Harshit Sabarwal
‘Nothing to despair’, says Venkaiah Naidu after ISRO loses communication with moon lander
ISRO’s plan to soft land Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram module on the lunar surface did not go as per script in the early hours of Saturday, with the lander losing communication with ground stations during its final descent.
Updated on Jun 27, 2020 07:39 AM IST
New Delhi | Press Trust of India
Space travel is a business now. That’s good
The Apollo moon-landing program was a public good. It’s worth considering the economic lessons that outer space holds.
Updated on Jul 26, 2019 07:01 PM IST
Bloomberg | Michael R. Strain
Chandrayaan-2: Late by a week, will still land on moon on planned date
The Chandrayaan-2 will now spend six additional days in Earth’s orbit and 15 fewer days around the moon before it lands on the day that was originally planned, Isro scientists have said.
Updated on Jul 22, 2019 04:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Chandrayaan-2 India’s first robotic space exploration: Ex-ISRO chief
Chandrayaan 2 Launch Mission: India has mastered the complex technologies and achieved self-reliance in access to the outer space, ex-ISRO chief said, noting that barring few heavy communication satellites, all other Indian satellites were lofted by the Indian launchers.
Updated on Jul 14, 2019 12:02 PM IST
Chennai | Indo Asian News Service
Chandrayaan 2: Meet the women at the helm of the space mission
Chandrayaan 2 Launch Mission: The indigenous rover and lander on Chandrayaan 2 will be India’s first step towards robotic space exploration.
Updated on Jul 14, 2019 11:26 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Anonna Dutt
The Moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?
It all started on September 13, 1959 when Soviet probe Luna 2 smashed into Mare Imbrium, its 390 kilograms (859 pounds) of mass vaporizing, no doubt, on impact.
Updated on Jul 11, 2019 01:26 PM IST
Washington | Agence France-Presse
Mission complete: NASA announces demise of Opportunity rover
The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June last year and was declared officially dead Wednesday.
Updated on Feb 14, 2019 10:12 AM IST
Washington | Agence France-Presse
Regardless of the fears and risk, the space race will benefit all of us
The opportunities are endless: biological experimentation; resource extraction; figuring out how to live on other planets; space travel; and tourism
Updated on Jan 19, 2019 02:51 PM IST
Vivek Wadhwa
China’s moon landing may fuel humanity’s drive to other galaxies
With Elon Musk tweeting pictures of starships and NASA targeting a manned mission to the Mars one day in the distant future, the moon might seem a less exciting destination.
Updated on Jan 06, 2019 11:23 AM IST
Hailey Waller, Bloomberg
Dark side of the moon: Chinese rover to land where none other has
The Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission — named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology — launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Updated on Dec 08, 2018 11:38 AM IST
Beijing | Agence France-Presse
Google Doodle commemorates Children’s Day 2018 with Doodle4Google
The featured doodle has been created by a school student from Mumbai who has won the Doodle4Google 2018 competition in India. Her creation was titled Galaxy, Space Exploration which is a part of this year’s theme, What inspires me?
Updated on Nov 14, 2018 10:22 AM IST
Asian News International | Asian News International, New Delhi [india]
Japan successfully lands robot rovers on asteroid’s surface
The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid.
Updated on Sep 23, 2018 10:21 AM IST
Indo Asian News Service, Tokyo | Indo Asian News Service
Is space travel Charity Ball 2.0?
Space exploration has so far almost always been undertaken with the lofty ideals of decoding the mysteries of the universe and understanding the earth’s place in the larger scheme of things. Such projects have therefore been funded by governments and taxpayers. With the new race for space tourism, the question that needs to be asked is ‘is it worth it?’
Updated on Sep 21, 2018 05:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Elon Musk tweets demo of mini-submarine to rescue Thai cave boys
After pitching ideas of installing a giant air tube inside the cave complex and using his firm’s penetrating radar to dig holes to reach the boys, American tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s latest concept is the pod.
Updated on Jul 09, 2018 03:09 PM IST
Agence France-Presse | HT Correspondent
Bacteria-coated broccoli sent to space for astronauts to grow their own
Six broccoli seeds were aboard the Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft that launched this week from Wallops Island, Virginia, as part of a space station cargo resupply mission. Three of the seeds are travelling to space as is, while the other three were coated with two different species of bacteria, developed at the University of Washington, that can live inside crop plants and improve their growth.
Updated on Jun 08, 2018 03:03 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington | HT Correspondent
NASA’s planet hunting probe successfully launched on SpaceX rocket
NASA blasted off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85% of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist
Updated on Apr 19, 2018 12:45 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington | HT Correspondent
Mars ahoy: Elon Musk’s improved rocket design could propel humanity to the red planet
The updated design for SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket is capable of holding the cryogenic liquid oxygen needed to fuel the rocket.
Updated on Apr 01, 2018 11:27 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington | Press Trust of India, Washington