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ISRO is all set to launch its nex ambitious indigenous astronomy satellite ASTROSAT on September 28 from Sriharikota buoyed with its success of Mars orbit mission or Mangalyaan, which is likely to go on far more than its earlier target of 6 months. The ASTROSAT satellite, weighing 1.5 tons, will be launched via Indians Space Research Organisation (ISRO) workhorse PSLV-C30 ...

Dawn spacecraft that has already raised the levels of curiosity with bright spots captured a baffling pyramid-shaped peak towering in a flat surrounding landscape on the dwarf planet, similar to Himalayan Mount Everest. DAWN spacecraft has found a merterious pyramid on Ceres, the dwarf planet it is moving towards to take closer shots to unravel the mystery of bright spots ...

Mangalyaan, India’s prestigious Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has entered its 100th orbit around Mars that will take slightly more than 3 days and finish by Thursday, June 25, 2015. Indian space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the MOM mission will have lifespan of about six months but an upbeat Mangalyaan team said the spacecraft will run for more than a year ...

Russian scientists have repeatedly maintained that the lost spacecraft Progress M27M will fall to earth tonight (Thursday/Friday, May 7/8, 2015) and the chances are that it may be seen hovering over the US, Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia before burn up itself mostly in the sky. The Russian spacecraft has gone out of control after liftoff on 28 April 2015. Fortunately ...

NASA engineers are working on developing a star tracker at a low cost that would be able to locate stars during daylight hours. According to a NASA statement, the team at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), located on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, is working on off-the-shelf solution to overcome the challenges of collecting data in daylight. The star tracker is being ...

The closest and most-detailed look at the evolution of a comet, that was in headlines a year ago when the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission helped its Philae Lander touch the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G), have been revealed by a team of researchers . The new comet findings detailed into how comets form in the first place, how their surfaces ...

NASA’s Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument is all set to measure the moisture lodged in Earth’s soils with an unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The instrument’s consists of three main parts – a radar, a radiometer and the largest rotating mesh antenna ever deployed in space. It is scheduled for launch on January 29. Remote sensing instruments are called “active” when ...

  India’s heaviest and next generation rocket, Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mark III) carrying a crew module, is all set for its test launch on Thursday. The countdown for the same began on today 9am. The rocket will also carry a crew module to test its re-entry characteristics. Though it is called as a crew module, it will not carry ...

ISRO scientists have started the countdown for the launch of GSLV Mark III tomorrow to carry the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment (CARE) at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. “The 24 and a half hour countdown for the mission has commenced at 9 am on December 17,” ISRO said after completing the Mission ...

ISRO will launch its GSLV Mk-III X / CARE Mission, the first experimental suborbital flight of India’s latest generation Launch Vehicle- GSLV Mk-III, next Thursday, December 18, 2014 between 9am and 12pm window from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota and has sought applications for media coverage of the event. The mission, close on the heels of similar mission successfully ...