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  SpaceX aborts launch to ISS at last-minute after technical issue

  World | February 19, 2017 11:15 IST

  A last-minute rocket trouble forced SpaceX to abort its planned Dragon cargo launch to the International Space Station from NASA's historic moon pad.

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  Unmanned ISS cargo ship burns up in atmosphere: Russian space agency

  World | December 01, 2016 23:50 IST

  Russia's space agency on Thursday said it lost contact with an unmanned cargo ship shortly after it blasted off for the International Space Station. “Communication was lost today 383 seconds after the launch of the

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  UFO spotted over skies of Northern India (Watch Video)

  Blah | November 23, 2015 21:01 IST

  New Delhi: Scott Joseph Kelly, a famous American astronaut, tweeted a photo of a UFO (unidentified flying object) last week which he took from International Space Station (ISS).According to the media reports, UFO hunters claimed

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  First NASA TV channel to reveal space in UHD

  September 12, 2015 14:27 IST

  Washington:  The US space agency has partnered with Harmonic, a worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, to launch NASA TV UHD -- the first ever non-commercial consumer ultra-high definition (UHD) channel in North America.NASA TV

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  Space photos from iss helps decode light pollution on earth

  World | August 12, 2015 11:07 IST

  London:  Photos taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have helped scientists reliably measure the amount of light pollution worldwide.The study not only has the well-known signatures of cities and streets but also

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  ISS cosmonauts successfully complete spacewalk

  World | August 11, 2015 10:12 IST

  Washington: Two Russian cosmonauts serving aboard the International Space Station completed a spacewalk without incident, NASA said.Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko on Monday spent 5 hours, 31 minutes outside the

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  Railway minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurates integrated security system in Mumbai

  India | June 30, 2015 7:32 IST

  Mumbai:  Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on monday inaugurated the Integrated Security System (ISS) installed with a total cost Rs. 21.72 crore at four railway stations in the metropolis comprising CST, Dadar, Kurla and LTT.The system

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  ISS crew set to return to Earth today

  World | June 11, 2015 12:31 IST

  Washington: Three Expedition 43 crew members are all set to return to Earth on Thursday after their 199-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS).Commander Terry Virts and flight engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Samantha Cristoforetti

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  Spacewalking astronauts capture footage of their work on ISS

  World | April 11, 2015 7:06 IST

  Spacewalking astronauts took a camera to capture footage of their work on the International Space Station weeks ago, showing breathtaking views of Earth below them.The video was released by NASA on Friday.The spacewalks on 21

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  NASA wants you to identify night-time earth images

  World | August 17, 2014 11:49 IST

  New York: NASA has an amazing collection of thousands of night photos of the earth and now the US space agency has asked for the public inputs in categorising them and creating an open atlas.Taken

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  NASA to power robots on ISS with smartphones

  World | July 09, 2014 13:04 IST

  Los Angeles: In a bid to empower robots on board the International Space Station (ISS), NASA is planning to send Google's 3D smartphones into space.Once at the ISS, smartphones will use their onboard motion-tracking cameras

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  High-tech cage to fly rats to ISS

  May 25, 2014 17:44 IST

  New York: Good news for astro-rats. They will now have a new high-tech cage to fly them to the International Space Station (ISS), courtesy NASA.An unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo ship will take rodents in their

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  US private spacecraft arrives at space station

  World | September 30, 2013 7:46 IST

  Washington : A privately-owned cargo ship operated by US space company Orbital Sciences Corp. completed its first rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, NASA TV showed.The unmanned Cygnus spacecraft was grappled by a

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  UFO sightings at International Space Station on the rise

  World | March 13, 2013 6:29 IST

  New Delhi: An increasing number of videos and stills showing unknown objects around the ISS have appeared on-line.So many videos have appeared on Youtube in fact that the process of spotting unidentified extras in pictures

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  Russia launches manned spacecraft to ISS

  World | December 19, 2012 21:29 IST

  Moscow, Dec 19: Russia launched its manned spacecraft Wednesday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan, Xinhua reported.According to the country's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, the Russian spacecraft—Soyuz TMA-07M—carrying a three-member crew blasted off to

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  Astronauts face insomnia on ISS, NASA plans new lighting system

  India | December 18, 2012 9:39 IST

  Washington, Dec 18:  NASA plans to help combat astronaut insomnia aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with a new lighting system.NASA plans to replace the fluorescent bulbs in the US section of the ISS with

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  Russian Three-Man Crew Leaves For ISS

  World | June 08, 2011 15:05 IST

  Baikonur, Jun 8 : A Russian spacecraft blasted off from southern Kazakhstan in the early darkness of Wednesday morning to take a three-man crew to the International Space Station.Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, NASA's Michael Fossum,

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  Discovery Undocks From ISS For The Last Time

  World | March 08, 2011 10:22 IST

  Houston, March 8 : Discovery, the world's most travelled spaceship, left the International Space Station for the last time on Monday, getting a dramatic send-off by the dozen orbiting astronauts. Station skipper Scott Kelly rang