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  NASA sets first all-female spacewalk after suit flap in spring

  October 05, 2019 19:07 IST

  Koch was supposed to do a spacewalk with another female crewmate in March. But NASA had to scrap the plan just a few days in advance because there wasn’t enough time to get a second medium-size spacesuit ready. The second medium was put together on board in June.

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  Chandrayaan-2 takes breathtaking pictures of moon. Take a look

  October 05, 2019 15:43 IST

  According to the ISRO, the pictures taken by the Orbiter from a height of 100 km from the moon surface are part of the Boguslawsky E Crater -- measuring about 14 km in diameter and 3 km depth -- and surroundings which lie in the Southern Polar region of the moon.

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  Going with the floe: Scientists to set up Arctic ice camp

  October 04, 2019 19:22 IST

  After several days of searching, researchers found a suitable floe measuring about 2.5 kilometres by 3.5 kilometres (1.5 miles by 2.2 miles) in the Arctic Sea north of Russia that will serve as a base for the mission, the institute said.

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  Chandrayaan 2’s Orbiter payload detects charged particles on Moon

  October 04, 2019 10:35 IST

  CLASS, a payload aboard India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan2’s Orbiter payload, in its first few days of observation, detected charged particles, and its intensity variations, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Thursday.

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  Deadly fungi causing speech defects, brain shrink found in Australia

  October 03, 2019 13:46 IST

  Experts believe that the fungi's appearance in Australia is most likely natural as there have also been unconfirmed reports of it growing in the nearby islands of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

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  Asteroids to enter our atmosphere, mid air explosion to cause damage?

  October 01, 2019 18:45 IST

  NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has set its eyes on three asteroids who are likely to intersect Earth's orbit. All of these asteroids are hurtling through space towards the earth at a breathtaking speed of thousands of miles per hour.

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  No, ISRO has not given up efforts to contact Vikram Lander

  October 01, 2019 15:49 IST

  ​The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is continuing to spring Chandrayaan-2's Vikram Lander to life. ISRO has not given up efforts even after three weeks after Vikram's hard-landing on the lunar surface.

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  NASA invites names to ride along with Mars 2020 rover, last date today

  September 30, 2019 7:57 IST

  Over 9.8 million people have submitted their names so far. The rover is scheduled to be launched around July 2020 and is expected to touch down on Mars by February 2021. 

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  Astronomers find new Jupiter-like planet formed from gas

  September 27, 2019 14:20 IST

  This new world is "an extraordinary candidate" for this process, said Hubert Klahr of Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, part of the research team. "This find prompts us to review our models."

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  Incredibly rare! Black hole shreds star as huge as Sun

  September 27, 2019 13:49 IST

  NASA said that the tidal disruption event was discovered by the ASAS-SN -- a worldwide network of 20 robotic telescopes headquartered at Ohio State University (OSU) in the US on January 29.

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  Researchers find ancient ocean floor hidden under Bangladesh

  September 27, 2019 11:36 IST

  The faculty was from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and the researchers were from the department of science and National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), a press release from the varsity said on Thursday.

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  Vikram had 'hard landing' on Moon, NASA releases photos

  September 27, 2019 9:42 IST

  Vikram was scheduled to touch down on September 7. This event was India's first attempt at a soft landing on the Moon.

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  There's no looking back for ISRO. Planning for next moon mission is on

  September 26, 2019 20:22 IST

  There's no looking back for ISRO. The Indian space agency has its eyes on the next moon mission despite hard landing of Chandrayaan-2. Things didn't go as planned, but ISRO's plans for a moon mission in future have already begun.

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  IIT Delhi successfully produces diesel from single-use plastic

  September 26, 2019 16:35 IST

  Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mission to eradicate plastic use, Nagpur's Uma Diwedi has successfully converted single-use plastics and other such junks into diesel.

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  Chandrayaan 2 a learning experience: NASA engineer

  September 26, 2019 13:31 IST

  Anne Devereaux, working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA, is the lead flight system engineer for the US space agency's Mars 2020 mission.

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  Kounotori8: World's biggest transport space ship lifts off from Japan

  September 25, 2019 13:51 IST

  Kounotori8, meaning "white stork" in Japanese, intends to deliver about 5.3 tonnes of supplies to astronauts at the ISS, including fresh food and water as well as batteries and devices needed for experiments.

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  No sign of Vikram lander as NASA’s LRO fails to capture landing site

  September 25, 2019 9:58 IST

  The sun has set on the Vikram landing site, located near the lunar south pole, and the lander was not designed to survive the frigid, dark lunar night.

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  Should ISRO rejig its priorities, experts differ

  September 24, 2019 16:56 IST

  Should the Indian space agency rearrange its priorities was the question posed.

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  Huge asteroid eyeing Earth could kill millions of people, NASA warns

  September 24, 2019 14:21 IST

  Based on a report, a NASA video showcased all known asteroids that passed through our solar system from Jan. 1, 1999, to Jan. 31, 2018 and it showed just how many near-Earth collisions occurred during the last two decades.

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  Can a new space race connect the world to the internet?

  September 24, 2019 14:04 IST

  More than a dozen companies have asked U.S. regulators for permission to operate constellations of satellites that provide internet service. Not all are aimed at connecting consumers, but some have grand and global ambitions.

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  Mysterious substance found on moon; more surprises in offing

  September 24, 2019 11:49 IST

  The lander of the Chang'e-4 probe and the Yutu-2 rover have resumed work for the 10th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold lunar night.

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  Hyderabad based company makes Firolac, a paint that never catches fire

  September 24, 2019 11:23 IST

  A Hyderabad based company has come up with fire retardant that promises to protect the material from a fire in industrial as well as domestic scenario. The company, EssKay Laboratory, has developed Firolac, a material that protects the base material from not only fire but intense heat, moist conditions, action of acidic and basic materials and water. The material has to be coated on the surface one wants to protect from fire.

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  Venus may have been habitable for billions of years: NASA Study

  September 23, 2019 17:16 IST

  Forty years ago, NASA's Pioneer Venus mission found tantalising hints that Earth's 'twisted sister' planet may once have had a shallow ocean's worth of water.

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  Australian space agency to join NASA's Artemis programme

  September 22, 2019 17:43 IST

  The Saturday announcement was made at the NASA Headquarters here during the signing of a joint statement by US space agency's Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard and Head of the Australian Space Agency, Megan Clark.

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  Insurance cover for Astronaut depends on reinsurance support

  September 22, 2019 15:57 IST

  India plans to send three astronauts to space in its own rocket by 2021.

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  ISRO to send Indian astronaut in its own rocket by 2021: Sivan

  September 22, 2019 11:14 IST

  While addressing the eighth convocation of IIT, Bhubaneswar, K Sivan said that the plan to make a soft landing on the lunar surface by Chandrayaan-2's 'Vikram' module did not go as per script but it will not have any bearing with on ISRO's Gaganyaan mission.

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  Expecting Vikram Lander to function after free fall is hopeless

  September 21, 2019 16:26 IST

  Dr. Thakkar said since it involves a large sum of public money, ISRO and those involved must ask difficult questions of themselves beyond just sentimentalism.

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  Chandrayaan-2 mission has achieved 98 per cent objectives: ISRO chief

  September 21, 2019 15:38 IST

  Sivan also said Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is doing well and performing scheduled science experiments.