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SpaceX is targeting early December to launch its giant Starship rocket system into orbit for the first time, a pivotal demonstration flight as it aims to fly NASA astronauts to the moon in the next few years, a US official said on Monday. Further ground tests with the rocket and regulatory reviews could delay the debut orbital mission beyond December.

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The aftermath of a large star's explosive death is seen in an image released on Monday by the European Southern Observatory, showing immense filaments of brightly shining gas that was blasted into space during the supernova. Before exploding at the end of its life cycle, the star is believed to have had a mass at least eight times greater than our sun. It was located ...

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India and the US have “a natural synergy” and similar aspirations and it is important for them to work together in the field of science and technology not only for the welfare of their own people but also to solve global problems, a top American scientist has said. “(Through) global collaborations, we can then devise solutions that can be global, but also applic...

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As India eyes setting up its own space station by 2035, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has proposed to the industry to collaborate with it in developing a reusable rocket capable of carrying heavier payloads into orbit. Dubbed as the Next-Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV), ISRO Chairman S Somanath said the space agency was working on the design of the ro...

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India's maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which will carry astronauts into the...

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Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The larger of the two strikes churned out boulder-size slabs of ice, which may help researchers look for ways future astronauts can tap into Mars’ natural resources.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India's maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which will carry astronauts into the...

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ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the moon, in June next year with a more robust lunar rover onboard which is crucial for future inter-planetary explorations. The space agency has also lined up the first test flight of the 'abort mission' for Gaganyaan, the country's first human spaceflight, early next year.

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Europe will commission two rocket launches from Elon Musk's SpaceX after the Ukraine conflict barred access to Russia's Soyuz, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed on Thursday. The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, a follow-up mission to NASA's DART spacecraft which last month succeeded in altering the path of a moonlet in the first ...

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Apple on Tuesday asked its suppliers to decarbonize operations related to the production of iPhones and other products, while announcing fresh investments to set up solar and wind projects in Europe. The iPhone maker will now require its supply partners to report on progress on carbon neutrality goals, specifically, Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions reductions, related to...

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A partial solar eclipse began on Thursday, as the moon began to cover the solar disc. This is the last solar eclipse expected to take place this year, and is being observed in various parts of Srinagar where 55 percent of the solar disc has been obscured. In Delhi, the eclipse began at 4:29pm and is expected to cover 43 percent of the solar disc today.

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The researchers say that the small size of the rodents, excellent sense of smell together with their adventurous spirit makes them the perfect animal to help in such disasters.

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OneWeb on Sunday announced the successful deployment of 36 satellites launched by ISRO's commercial arm NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Bharti Global is the largest investor in OneWeb, a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company.

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ISRO, or the Indian Space Research Organisation, is set to launch 36 OneWeb broadband satellites on October 23, which will be flown into orbit by the agency's heaviest rocket, the LVM3-M2. Sunday's launch assumes significance as the LVM3-M2 mission is the maiden dedicated commercial mission for NewSpace India Ltd, the commercial arm of ISRO.

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Shortly after Friday midnight, the countdown will begin for the launch of 36 broadband communication satellites on board ISRO's heaviest rocket Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) from Sriharikota spaceport. The launch of 'LVM3 - M2/OneWeb India-1 Mission' is scheduled at 0007 hours IST on October 23 (midnight of October 22). OneWeb is a private satellite communications comp...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape the iconic Pillars of Creation where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are far more permeable.

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NASA researchers, along with a team from IIT-Madras, have studied the interactions between microbes in the International Space Station (ISS). The study would help devise strategies for the disinfection of space stations to minimise any potential impact of microbes on the health of astronauts.

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ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-3, its third mission to the moon, in June next year with a more robust lunar rover onboard which is crucial for future inter-planetary explorations. The space agency has also lined up the first test flight of the 'abort mission' for Gaganyaan, the country's first human spaceflight, early next year.

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Europe will commission two rocket launches from Elon Musk's SpaceX after the Ukraine conflict barred access to Russia's Soyuz, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed on Thursday. The launches include the Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, a follow-up mission to NASA's DART spacecraft which last month succeeded in altering the path of a moonlet in the first ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced new renders of the Pillars of Creation, revealing the colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust in new detail with greater depth, clarity and colour. The image was first captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, and is rendered in the near-infrared spectrum with even greater translucency, bringing many mor...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its satellite internet unit's foray into in-flight WiFi services with the rollout on Wednesday of Starlink Aviation, offering customers a $150,000 (nearly Rs. 1.2 crore) airplane antenna amid mounting competition for airborne connectivity. Starlink, SpaceX's growing network of thousands of internet satellites, will charge customers seek...

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Space technology startups have seen a fall in venture capital investment, as investors evaluating their investment strategies and focussing on companies with viable products in the market. Investments have fallen as VC backers turn to safer bets due to the current economic turmoil caused by decades-high inflation, rapidly rising interest rates and the Ukraine war.

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ISRO's heaviest rocket LVM3 will launch British start-up OneWeb's 36 broadband satellites from the spaceport in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota on October 23, marking the launcher's entry into the global commercial launch service market.

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The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA departed the orbiting outpost on Friday to begin their flight back to Earth, capping a science mission of nearly six months. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying three US NASA astronauts and an Italian crewmate from the European Space Agency undocked from t...

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Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot "indefinitely" fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousand more terminals after a report suggested that his rocket company had asked the Pentagon to pay for the donations.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of WR140, a distant extreme star system back in July, but the picture has stumped astronomers. WR140 is what’s called a Wolf-Rayet star. These are among the most extreme stars known. In a rare but beautiful display, they can sometimes emit a plume of dust into space stretching hundreds of times the size of our enti...

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SpaceX plans to announce two new space tourists slated to fly on the Starship rocket: Dennis Tito, the world’s first-ever space tourist in 2001, and his wife, Akiko. The couple paid an undisclosed amount to fly around the moon on Starship once the vehicle is complete. They will travel with 10 other undisclosed passengers on a roughly week-long journey.

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Japan's Epsilon rocket was sent a self-destruct order on Wednesday, following a failure to launch, the Japanese space agency said. Designed to launch in three stages, the unmanned rocket was set to take several satellites into orbit on its sixth space mission. Epsilon's failure to launch was Japan's first unsuccessful rocket launch since 2003.

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NASA has announced that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission that crashed a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos successfully altered its orbit around parent asteroid Didymos by 32 minutes. According to the US space agency, the target of the test was a minimum successful orbit period change of Dimorphos as change of 73 seconds or more. This early data sho...

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Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated a method to detect the vibrations of a mobile phone's earpiece, which can be used to decipher what the person on the other side of the call was saying. The process reported up to 83 percent accuracy.

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During the Diwali festival on October 25, there will be a partial solar eclipse which will be visible from the city as well as from most parts of the country, astrophysicist Debi Prasad Duari said. The eastern metropolis, however, will be able to witness the partial solar eclipse, the second in 2022, for a very small duration.

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The Indian startups would soon launch space satellites as well as satellite constellations and try their rockets, the Union Minister for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said. He added that the space reforms have unleashed the innovative potentials of startups.

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Chandrayaan-2 Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) spectrometer has mapped a large amount of sodium on the Moon for the first time, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement on Friday. The moon orbiter's CLASS spectrometer provides clean signatures of the sodium line thanks to its high sensitivity and performance, while a study finds that...

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NASA-funded technology for future space missions may charge an electric car in just five minutes on Earth, paving the way for increased adoption of such vehicles, the US space agency said. Reducing the charging time for electric vehicles to five minutes — an industry goal — will require charging systems to provide current at 1,400A.

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SpaceX's four-member Crew Dragon team reached the International Space Station on Thursday, ahead of a five-month science mission. The team includes a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit. The inclusion of Anna Kikina, the lone female cosmonaut in active service with Russian space agency Roscosmos, was a sign of continued US-Russian coope...

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SpaceX successfully carried the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans and a Japanese astronaut into orbit on Wednesday. The launch of the rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, is the first spaceflight with a Russian launched from U.S. soil in two decades. Kikina, who had trained in the United States for the f...

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Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a SpaceX ship on Wednesday, alongside one Japanese and two American astronauts. Kikina is the only female Russian cosmonaut in service and is part of the Crew-5 mission. Ensuring the operation of the ISS has become one of the few remaining areas of cooperation between the US and Rus...

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Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched an advanced Green War Room to monitor air pollution 24X7 in the national capital and ensure effective implementation of winter action plan to curb it. This war room will work from the seventh floor of the Delhi Secretariat where a 12-member team comprising environment scientists and other officials will be deploy...

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India's Mars Orbiter craft has run out of propellant and its battery drained beyond the safe limit, fuelling speculation that the country's maiden interplanetary mission Mangalyaan may have finally completed its long innings. The Rs. 450 crore Mars Orbiter Mission was launched onboard PSLV-C25 on November 5, 2013, and the MOM spacecraft was successfully inserted into ...

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