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NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission proceeded successfully. A little over a week after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the Moon, flight controllers "successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit," the US space agency said on its web site.

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ISRO announced on Wednesday that the launch of its versatile sounding rocket, the RH200, has been conducted successfully for the 200th consecutive time. The successful flight of RH200 took off from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Indian sounding rockets are used to carry out experiments on meteorology, astronomy and similar branches of space ph...

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ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will launch spacetech startup Pixxel’s third hyperspectral satellite – Anand –from the Sriharikota spaceport on Saturday. Anand is a hyperspectral microsatellite weighing less than 15 kg but having more than 150 wavelengths that will enable it to capture images of the earth in greater detail than today’s non-hyper...

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ISRO plans to launch PSLV-C54/ EOS-06 mission with Oceansat-3 and eight nano satellites, including one from Bhutan, the space agency said on Sunday. The launch is scheduled at 11:65am on November 26, from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. Last week, ISRO revealed that the payload capability of India's heaviest LVM3 rocket has been enhanced by up to 450kg wi...

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Researchers are developing skin-like electronics that could work with artificial intelligence (AI) to potentially detect problems such as heart disease, cancer or multiple sclerosis before obvious symptoms appear. They have developed a skin-like neuromorphic "chip" that consists of a thin film of a plastic semiconductor combined with stretchable gold nanowire electrod...

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The government will host a meeting of science ministers from G20 Member nations at Coimbatore in July 2023, with the theme ‘Disruptive Science for Innovative and Sustainable Growth’. Meanwhile, science administrators will also host the Research Innovation Initiated Gathering (RIIG) on the theme Research and Innovation for Equitable Society, according to the govern...

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Vikram-S, the first privately developed rocket in India, blasted off from ISRO's Sriharikota launch pad on Friday. The 545-kg rocket developed by space startup Skyroot, has the capability of reaching Mach 5, five times the speed of sound, and carrying a payload of 83 kg.

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SpaceX employees who were fired after have filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board, after they were fired for circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behaviour in June. details The complaint details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, among other things, call...

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NASA's Artemis I was on course Wednesday for a crewless voyage around the moon and back hours after blasting off from Florida on its debut flight, half a century after the final lunar mission of the Apollo era. The 32-story-tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:47am EST (12:17pm IST), piercing the blackness over Cape Ca...

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NASA on Wednesday successfully launched its Artemis I Moon rocket, the first step in an an ambitious plan by the US space agency to send humans back to the Moon. NASA hopes to build a sustained presence -- including a lunar space station -- to help prepare for an eventual mission to Mars.

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NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is scheduled to launch on November 16, and the countdown for the maiden flight of the orange and white behemoth has begun at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 1 mission, a test flight without astronauts, represents the first step in the US space agency's plan to build a lasting presence on the Moon, and taking lessons from there to pre...

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SpaceX has bought an advertising package on Twitter for its satellite internet service Starlink, said Elon Musk, who owns the rocket company and the social media platform that is seeing an exodus of advertisers. Companies including General Motors, General Mills, Mondelez International and Volkswagen AG paused advertising on the platform after Musk acquired it last mon...

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India's first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S — is set for a November 15 launch on a sub-orbital mission with three payloads, Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace announced on Tuesday. The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named 'Prarambh' (the beginning), will carry payloads of two Indian and one foreign customers and is set for launch from ...

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Elon Musk, who heads five companies including Tesla and Twitter, said in a tweet on Friday that his companies will be well positioned in 2023 despite the possibility of a tough economy. Musk's tweet comes a day after he raised the possibility of Twitter going bankrupt.

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NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket endured fierce winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Nicole on Thursday, days ahead of the expected launch of the spacecraft. Sustained winds of 136.8kmph tested the design limits of the 32-story-tall rocket and posing added risks to a spacecraft already beset by technical glitches. The Artemis I Moon rocket sustained minor damage after fac...

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The Indian Space Research Orgnisation (ISRO) has for the first time supplied a rocket system to support a private launch vehicle built in the country. Chennai-based space technology startup Agnikul Cosmos received its first flight termination system (FTS) on November 7 from ISRO.

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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite and the NASA test payload lifted off on Thursday from California. JPSS-2 was placed into an orbit that circles the Earth from pole to pole, joining previously launched satellites in a system designed to improve weather forecasting and climate monitoring.

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ISRO's heaviest LVM3 rocket has been enhanced by up to 450 kg with a successful engine test, the Indian space agency said on Thursday. The LVM3 rocket, a three-stage vehicle with two solid motor strap-ons, a liquid propellant core stage, and a cryogenic stage, is capable of launching a four-tonne class of satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organisation, is set to conduct the first runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of Reusable Launch Vehicle - Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), the space agency said on Tuesday. According to ISRO Chairman S Somanath, the agency is monitoring weather conditions ahead of the test of the reusable launch vehicle technology.

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Vikram S, the country's first private developed rocket, is set to launch between November 12 and 16, space startup Skyroot Aerospace said on Tuesday. With this mission, the firm is set to become the first private space company in the country to launch a rocket into space, bringing in a new era for the space sector which was opened up in 2020 to facilitate private sect...

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The last lunar eclipse for three years is set to take place today. Viewers can observe the last Blood Moon until March 14, 2025, as the Moon darkens and acquires a reddish hue on Tuesday. Here's how to watch the lunar eclipse 2022 online.

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to move the operational activities to its marketing arm NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the space agency's chairman said on Monday. The Indian space agency will focus on research and development in the area of advanced space technologies in the coming years, he said, adding that the "connection" between the ISRO and scie...

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ISRO, the country's space agency, will team up with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for sending a lunar rover to explore the permanent shadow region of the moon, the space agency has announced. The success of the lunar rover on board Chandrayaan-3 was crucial as it would be used again in the mission with JAXA, according to ISRO.

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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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NASA rolled out its largest-ever rocket, Space Launch System (SLS), to a launch pad in Florida on Friday and will try again 10 days from now to blast off on a much-delayed uncrewed mission Artemis I to the Moon. After two launch attempts were scrubbed this summer because of technical problems, the rocket returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building to protect it from H...

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Brain chip implant developer Synchron has created a device called 'Synchron Switch' that allows patients to control an iPhone or iPad using their brain. Synchron’s technology could lead to major advances and would change the day-to-day lives of people with severe disabilities.

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Microsoft President Brad Smith on Wednesday said that thousands of businesses would fail to meet pledges to combat climate change, if they did not train employees on sustainability. While Microsoft itself has grown its sustainability headcount to about 250 employees from only 30 largely in the past three years, having the right workforce to deliver on its carbon-reduc...

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China's Mengtian module docked with its new, permanent Tiangong space station on Tuesday. After Mengtian’s arrival, an additional uncrewed Tianzhou cargo craft is due to dock with the station, with another crewed mission scheduled for December. Crews for these missions could overlap, as the country's space station has sufficient room to accommodate six astronauts.

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