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  Technology transfer talks for small rocket commence with 20 companies and IN-SPACe

  Technology | August 04, 2023 13:52 IST

  IN-SPACe serves as the regulator for private players in the Indian space sector, while ISRO is the Indian space agency. The recent announcement by ISRO revealed its decision to transfer the SSLV technology to private firms.

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  Australia: Space experts believe mysterious object on beach could be piece of 20-year-old.. I DEETS

  World | July 18, 2023 21:25 IST

  The bizarre-looking object has been declared a piece of space junk, while national agencies, including the Australian Space Agency (ASA), continue working to identify its origin.

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  Centre approves Indian Space Policy 2023 to boost private participation

  India | April 07, 2023 8:14 IST

  The Indian Space Policy-2023 was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Security chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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  Bam! NASA spacecraft crashes into asteroid in historic defense test | WATCH

  Science | September 27, 2022 15:49 IST

  The $325 million mission was the first attempt to shift the position of an asteroid or any other natural object in space.

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  China launches three astronauts to complete space station construction

  World | June 05, 2022 20:40 IST

  The astronauts will develop the space station from a single-module structure into a national space laboratory with three modules. 

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  NASA suspends SpaceX's lunar lander contract till November

  World | August 20, 2021 14:58 IST

  According to court filings, NASA voluntarily agreed to temporarily suspend the contract until November 1, this year, while the US Court of Federal Claims adjudicated the case, the Verge reported on Friday.

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  ISRO to take cooperation with European, Israeli space agencies to higher orbit

  Science | August 01, 2021 11:35 IST

  ISRO is in discussions with European and Israeli space agencies to enhance cooperation.

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  Chinese cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docks with orbital station

  Science | May 30, 2021 8:07 IST

  Automated spacecraft Tianzhou-2 docked with China's new space station carrying fuel and supplies for its future crew.

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  China lands on Mars in latest advance for its space program

  Science | May 15, 2021 7:12 IST

  China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time in the latest advance for its space programme.

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  NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble

  Science | May 11, 2021 11:47 IST

  With rubble from an asteroid tucked inside, a NASA spacecraft fired its engines and began the long journey back to Earth on Monday, leaving the ancient space rock in its rearview mirror.

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  NASA's space grown lettuce is safe and nutritious as ones on Earth

  Science | March 08, 2020 10:41 IST

  Researchers have found that the salad crop, red romaine lettuce, grown on board the International Space Station (ISS), is as nutritious as counterparts grown on the Earth, an advance that may help astronauts grow safe, fresh food during space missions.

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  NASA Orion successfully tests critical launch abort system

  Science | February 27, 2020 12:27 IST

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday took to Twitter to announce that the final test of the Orion spacecraft’s attitude control motor (ACM) has been successful. NASA revealed that when the astronauts blast off for their voyage to the Moon on the Orion spacecraft during Artemis missions, they will have protection in the form of the launch abort system (LAS).

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  Countdown for the launch of India's Cartosat-3 satellite in progress

  India | November 26, 2019 11:41 IST

  According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the countdown for the launch of PSLV-XL rocket carrying India's Cartosat-3 and 13 nanosatellites from the US began at 7.28 a.m. The rocket is scheduled to blast off from the second launch pad at 9.28 a.m. on Wednesday.

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  Meet Susmita Mohanty, who features in BBC's 100 most influential women

  Fyi | October 16, 2019 20:55 IST

  One among them is Susmita Mohanty AKA the 'space woman'. She is a space entrepreneur who started India's first space start-up. Mohanty started her career at an early age, is the daughter of a former ISRO scientist, Nilamani Mohanty.

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

  Science | 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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  Australian space agency to join NASA's Artemis programme

  Science | 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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  NASA's major projects busting budgets, schedules

  World | May 31, 2019 19:39 IST

  The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported Thursday that NASA's major projects are more than 27 percent over baseline costs and the average launch delay is 13 months. That's the largest schedule delay since the GAO began assessing NASA's major projects 10 years ago.

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  ISS deploys first satellite to collect space junk

  Science | June 25, 2018 11:45 IST

  The satellite is one of the world's first attempts to tackle the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting the Earth.

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  Miracle or something else? NASA camera melts during SpaceX rocket launch, but the photos survived!

  Science | May 24, 2018 23:41 IST

  One of the remote cameras melted in a fire sparked by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday but it still managed to snap photos of the liftoff, Space.com reported.   

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  Greece launches its own space agency

  Technology | March 20, 2018 6:38 IST

  Greece launched its first space agency on Monday as an effort to rebuild the ailing economy as it exits a severe eight-year debt crisis.