Beijing: China on Thursday accomplished its first space docking mission when two Chinese spacecraft silently coupled in space more than 343 km above the Earth's surface as part of the country's maiden attempt to build a space station by 2020. The unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 which was launched two days ago docked with space lab module Tiangong-1, sent into space last month providing a big leap forward for China's space program....
07:11 AM, Nov 03, 2011
New Delhi: Pitching for an effective global mechanism to deal with cyber threats in the wake of spiralling growth of Internet, Britain today said it can jointly work with India on new avenues of research to make online space safer. Marcus Winsley, Head of the Press and Communication Group of British High Commission in India, noted that UK holds a major stake in cyber security as the country loses around...
10:48 AM, Nov 01, 2011
Beijing: China is considering sending women astronauts into space during its space docking missions in 2012. Two female astronauts have been selected for possible flights when spacecraft Shenzhou-9 and 10 are scheduled to dock with space lab module Tiangong-1 in 2012, Chen Shanguang, director of the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), said. "We must assess both male and female astronauts to verify if human beings can live in space as...
05:08 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Beijing: China will conduct a manned space mission in 2012, an official said on Monday. Spokeswoman for the programme Wu Ping said Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships will be launched in 2012. They are expected to dock with China's first space lab module, Tiangong-1, she said at a press conference, Xinhua reported. "At least one mission of the two will be manned," Wu added. The crew members have already been selected...
09:38 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Moscow: Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International Space Station on Sunday since an August crash left a half-sized crew on the orbital outpost and raised concerns over Moscow's role as the sole space flight provider. The Progress freighter blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as scheduled at 1011 GMT, carrying supplies to the station, a $100 billion project funded by 16 nations currently...
02:47 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Cape Canaveral: A Russian cargo ship is poised for liftoff on Sunday to the International Space Station following a launch accident in August that forced a cut in staffing levels aboard the orbital outpost. The Progress freighter, due to launch at 6:11 am EDT (1011 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, will be the first flight to the station since an upper-stage rocket failure doomed a similar unmanned freighter...
02:19 AM, Oct 29, 2011
Beijing: China will launch a spacecraft that will perform the country's first docking with a space lab module. The country will launch the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, reported Xinhua. The spacecraft is expected to perform China's first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch centre. The Shenzhou-8...
02:50 PM, Oct 26, 2011
New Delhi: The successful launch of Jugnu, a loaf-sized nano satellite designed by IIT-Kanpur, on October 12 marks a watershed in Indian space technology for miniaturisation and an indigenously designed ejection system that ends dependence on imports. Jugnu, placed into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C18 (PSLV-C18) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), miniaturises communication capabilities, power source and a control system, comprising the basic functions of...
05:31 PM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: The official sources have confirmed that the issue of Army helicopter being forced to land in PoK by Pakistani military, has been resolved. Military and diplomatic channels of the two countries were activated and the Army Aviation Corp's Cheetah helicoper with three middle-level officers and a JCO on board was released and returned safely back to Kargil just before sunset less than five hours after it inadvertently crossed...
06:20 PM, Oct 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched four big satellites on Wednesday from theSatish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Two of the satellites have been made by the students of IIT Kanpur and SRM University. Guruditya Sinha, Student, SRM-SAT Project, said, "The main objective is to measure carbon dioxide and water vapour in the cities above India. To check how much Indian cities are contributing to climate change."...
08:42 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Beijing: China may launch the country's first space laboratory module at the end of this week with hectic last-minute preparations in full swing. The unmanned Tiangong-1 module was originally scheduled to be launched into low Earth orbit between September 27 and 30. However, the forecasted arrival of a cold air mass at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has pushed the launch back to September 29 or 30, depending on weather...
02:47 PM, Sep 26, 2011
New Delhi: Breakaway chunks from an old NASA satellite are likely to reach Earth on Friday. Though there's a very remote chance of them hitting anyone, but NASA is unable to predict where they'll land, till just two hours before impact. The size of the chunk is equivalent to a bus, speeding in at 27000 km/hour, and will break up and burn as soon as it enters our atmosphere. However,...
12:55 PM, Sep 23, 2011
Cape Canaveral: NASA unveiled plans on Wednesday for a mammoth deep-space rocket to carry astronauts to the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond the International Space Station. The rocket project would cost $10 billion through 2017, when the first test flight of the Space Launch System is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Another $6 billion is allotted to building the Orion deep-space crew capsule,...
01:34 AM, Sep 15, 2011
Washington: The design for NASA's newest behemoth of a rocket harkens back to the giant workhorse liquid rockets that propelled men to the moon. But this time the destinations will be much farther and the rocket even more powerful. The Obama administration on Wednesday will unveil its much-delayed general plans for its rocket design, called the Space Launch System, which will cost about $35 billion, according to senior administration sources...
06:06 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Think of a day in the year 2100. The walls of your room light up like screens and your chosen software program, a familiar face named, say, Molly, wakes you up in the morning and lays out the day's plan. As you enter the bathroom, DNA and protein sensors in the mirror, toilet, and sink swing into action, looking for any unhealthy signs. Then, you wrap some wires around your...
11:27 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in a photograph taken by the Expedition 28 crew on the International Space Station (ISS) on August 21, 2011. The photo was released on September 4, 2011. The fence between the two countries is floodlit for surveillance purposes. In the photo: Srinagar (L), Islamabad (bottom C), Lahore (centre near the border line) and Delhi (top C) can be seen as...
02:57 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Cape Canaveral: The amount of debris orbiting the Earth has reached "a tipping point" for collisions, which would in turn generate more of the debris that threatens astronauts and satellites, according to a U.S. study released on Thursday. NASA needs a new strategic plan for mitigating the hazards posed by spent rocket bodies, discarded satellites and thousands of other pieces of junk flying around the planet at speeds of 17,500...
11:42 AM, Sep 02, 2011
New Delhi: A bunch of Indian students have left their mark on the Solar System as they have tracked down some extremely rare asteroids. The kids might look like average teenagers. But the truth is, they're special agents on a mission to Space. The students of Bal Bharti School were among hundreds across India trying to detect asteroids in our Solar System. They were trained by an Indian team of...
10:17 AM, Sep 02, 2011
Washington: Astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars are considering to grow their own food in a hi-tech 'kitchen garden' onboard their spaceship, according to NASA. Supplying enough food for a round trip to the Red Planet is one of the greatest challenges facing mission planners. Now the US space agency claims the astronomers could tend 'kitchen gardens' of salad and vegetables to cater to their daily diet. NASA...
06:23 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Hyderabad: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare ruled Indian cyberspace during his 12-day fast demanding introduction of Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament. Search engine Google produces 29 million results when a query is made by entering Anna Hazare's name, while Sonia Gandhi's name yields a little below 9 million results. A page created in the Facebook on Anna Hazare has been liked by 3.64 lakh users against UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's page...
07:25 PM, Aug 28, 2011
