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Space exploration’s next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts
By Bloomberg| Posted by: Harshit Sabarwal
UPDATED ON MAY 17, 2020 10:06 AM IST
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.
‘Nothing to despair’, says Venkaiah Naidu after ISRO loses communication with moon lander
By Press Trust of India | New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUN 27, 2020 07:39 AM IST
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.
Space travel is a business now. That’s good
By Michael R. Strain | Bloomberg
UPDATED ON JUL 26, 2019 07:01 PM IST
The Apollo moon-landing program was a public good. It’s worth considering the economic lessons that outer space holds.
Chandrayaan-2: Late by a week, will still land on moon on planned date
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 22, 2019 04:48 PM IST
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.
Chandrayaan-2 India’s first robotic space exploration: Ex-ISRO chief
By Indo Asian News Service | Chennai
UPDATED ON JUL 14, 2019 12:02 PM IST
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.
Chandrayaan 2: Meet the women at the helm of the space mission
By Anonna Dutt | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JUL 14, 2019 11:26 AM IST
Chandrayaan 2 Launch Mission: The indigenous rover and lander on Chandrayaan 2 will be India’s first step towards robotic space exploration.
The Moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?
By Agence France-Presse | Washington
UPDATED ON JUL 11, 2019 01:26 PM IST
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.
Mission complete: NASA announces demise of Opportunity rover
By Agence France-Presse | Washington
UPDATED ON FEB 14, 2019 10:12 AM IST
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.
Regardless of the fears and risk, the space race will benefit all of us
By Vivek Wadhwa
UPDATED ON JAN 19, 2019 02:51 PM IST
The opportunities are endless: biological experimentation; resource extraction; figuring out how to live on other planets; space travel; and tourism
China’s moon landing may fuel humanity’s drive to other galaxies
By Hailey Waller, Bloomberg
UPDATED ON JAN 06, 2019 11:23 AM IST
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.
Dark side of the moon: Chinese rover to land where none other has
By Agence France-Presse | Beijing
UPDATED ON DEC 08, 2018 11:38 AM IST
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.
Google Doodle commemorates Children’s Day 2018 with Doodle4Google
By Asian News International | Asian News International, New Delhi [india]
UPDATED ON NOV 14, 2018 10:22 AM IST
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?
Japan successfully lands robot rovers on asteroid’s surface
By Indo Asian News Service | Indo Asian News Service, Tokyo
UPDATED ON SEP 23, 2018 10:21 AM IST
The space agency reported that MINERVA-II1 is the world’s first mobile exploration robot to land on the surface of an asteroid.
Is space travel Charity Ball 2.0?
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON SEP 21, 2018 05:48 PM IST
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?’
Elon Musk tweets demo of mini-submarine to rescue Thai cave boys
By HT Correspondent | Agence France-Presse
UPDATED ON JUL 09, 2018 03:09 PM IST
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.
Bacteria-coated broccoli sent to space for astronauts to grow their own
By HT Correspondent | Press Trust of India, Washington
UPDATED ON JUN 08, 2018 03:03 PM IST
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.
NASA’s planet hunting probe successfully launched on SpaceX rocket
By HT Correspondent | Press Trust of India, Washington
UPDATED ON APR 19, 2018 12:45 PM IST
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
Mars ahoy: Elon Musk’s improved rocket design could propel humanity to the red planet
By Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India, Washington, Washington
UPDATED ON APR 01, 2018 11:27 PM IST
The updated design for SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket is capable of holding the cryogenic liquid oxygen needed to fuel the rocket.