New Delhi: Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the super popular game Angry Birds, has now announced the launch of its much-awaited game - Angry Birds Space - which is available now for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Android devices, as well as the Mac and PC, with PC retail copies to follow shortly. Angry Birds Space is a completely new game with innovative new gameplay. "From floating through space in...
04:08 PM, Mar 22, 2012
London: Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is going into space after signing up to be the 500th customer to travel into outer space with Virgin Galactic. The 'Two and a Half Men' star is excited about his trip to space, according to Virgin CEO Richard Branson. "I gave Ashton a quick call to congratulate and welcome him. He is as thrilled as we are at the prospect of being among the...
07:09 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi/Bangalore: The Enforcement Directorate has begun a "preliminary inquiry" into the financial transactions that took place in connection with the Antrix-Devas deal. The Directorate's zonal office in Bangalore has begun the probe to ascertain if any contraventions with regard to foreign exchange or anti-money laundering laws in the deal have occurred. The investigation, which the agency will conduct with the help of the RBI and the Income Tax department,...
02:50 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Beijing: China is planning to launch "100 rockets, 100 satellites" by 2015 as part of its ambitious space expansion programme. China has set a target of completing a space mission of "100 rockets, 100 satellites" between 2011 and 2015, according to a space official. On average, China will complete about 20 launch missions each year before 2015, Zhang Jianheng, deputy general manager of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp...
12:37 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Moscow: A magnetic storm that is being felt on Earth due to a huge solar flare on the Sun has now intensified to G3 (strong), the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. The storm occurred on the Sun at 4.24 AM Wednesday. "The magnetic field orientation needed to cause strong geomagnetic storming finally occurred overnight, so although it got off to a slow start, levels have reached what...
12:48 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Beijing: China's third lunar probe, Chang'e-3, is expected to be launched next year and it will conduct moon landing and lunar explorations, a top space official has said. Different from the previous two orbiters, Chang'e-3 has "legs" to support the spacecraft in landing, Ye Peijian, chief commander of Chang'e-3 at China Academy of Space Technology, said. The orbiter will carry a lunar rover and other instruments for territory surveys, living...
02:50 PM, Mar 05, 2012
London: Police across Britain were inundated with calls after a large fireball, thought to be a meteor, was spotted in the sky, media reports said on Sunday. Reports of a 'bright light' and an 'orange glow' were received by police across Scotland and the north of England on Saturday night. Some people phoned the police fearing a plane had crashed, the BBC reported. Reacting to the calls, the Met Office...
09:41 PM, Mar 04, 2012
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10:12 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair has hit out at the government for failing to list out reasons for blacklisting him and three others in connection with the scrapped Devas-Antrix S-band deal. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Nair said he was disgusted with the Department of Space as he had not been told on what grounds action had been taken. He also said he would continue with his fight...
07:35 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Washington: Senior American lawmakers and a top naval commander on Tuesday expressed concern over the growing Chinese military might in the Asia Pacific region, underlining that the countries in the region are worried about it. At a Congressional hearing, the lawmakers and Commander of the US Pacific Command also expressed concern over China's exploitation of cyberspace for military and non-military purposes. "China's growing presence and influence in Asia, and the...
01:05 AM, Feb 29, 2012
Sao Paulo: An unidentified metal object that may have come from a spacecraft caused a huge commotion when it fell to the Earth in a small town in Northern Brazil. The spherical object, weighing about 30 kg and with a diameter of one meter, was found earlier this week in Anapurus town. "The noise I heard made me weak in the knees. I went to see what it was. I...
07:31 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Top aerospace scientist Roddam Narasimha on Saturday said that he quit as the Space commission memeber as he was upset over the action against former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and others in connection with the Antrix-Devas contract. "I have requested the Prime Minister to permit me to relinquish my membership of the Space Commission. I considered the actions taken recently against certain ISRO scientists in connection with...
12:05 PM, Feb 25, 2012
Bangalore: Top aerospace scientist, Roddam Narasimha, who quit as member of the Space Commission on Friday said that he had requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh regarding his membership of the body. "I have requested to PM regarding my membership." However, the PM is yet to accept it, he said. He added, "The action which has been taken recently (the blacklisting of former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair by the government)...
08:18 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Bangalore: A Bangalore engineering student is in the running to get an experiment he dreamed of, done aboard the International Space Station. He has also been dreaming about a live streaming of the experiment on YouTube. YouTube offered 14 to 18-year-old students the chance to get an experiment they had dreamed of, done aboard the International Space Station. Sachin Kukke, one among six worldwide semifinalists, is the winner from the...
09:44 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Bangalore: An 18-year old engineering student from here was today declared as the regional winner from India in the 'YouTube Space Lab' global science competition. Sachin Kukke, a first year mechanical engineering student of BMS College here, is one of the six winners in the 17-18 year old category of the competition to design a science experiment that can be performed in space, organisers YouTube, Lenovo and Space Adventures announced....
07:27 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: Are you bored of playing Angry Birds? Here is some good news for you. Rovio, the company behind this super popular game, has announced to come up with a new game - Angry Birds Space - on March 22. The new game will be launched simultaneously in mobile gaming, animation, retail, and publishing. "We are very excited to announce our next game: Angry Birds Space! It's going to...
01:11 PM, Feb 20, 2012
San Francisco: The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to live if they did not perform the surgery. Jaya, who was diagnosed in the...
07:49 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Kolkata: The joint efforts of India and Russia can overwhelm many developed nations in space technology, a senior Russian official said on Friday. "We should cooperate in this field...where we have a lot of specialists...We need the mutual efforts together to overwhelm developed countries in this field," Nikolai V Lyubimov said. Lyubimov, who was in the city to inaugurate a statue of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, expressed hope of future...
02:43 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Bangalore: ISRO Chief K Radhakrishnan on Sunday rejected suggestions that the row with his predecessor G Madhavan Nair and his indictment over the Antrix-Devas deal has dented its image and cast a shadow on the country's space programme. Seeking to put the two-week-old controversy and its fall-out firmly behind, Radhakrishnan said the focus now is on missions and indicated that successful space ventures would redeem its pride. "I don't think...
09:05 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Kuala Lumpur: European air safety officials are preparing to extend checks for Airbus A380 wing cracks to the entire superjumbo fleet, sources close to the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. The decision to proceed with a gradual inspection of all 68 A380s in service will refocus attention on flaws recently identified in flagship jets at both Airbus and Boeing. Both aircraft makers maintain that their newest jets remain safe to...
05:08 PM, Feb 08, 2012
