Space Mission
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NASA to send football stadium-sized balloon to study light from newborn stars
Science | Jul 24, 2020, 06:46 PM ISTNASA has announced the intention to release a massive balloon into Earth’s stratosphere as part of its mission to study the space around our planet. The mission is known as the Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths (ASTHROS).
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France to train Indian flight surgeons for ISRO's Gaganyaan mission
Science | Jan 21, 2020, 05:38 PM ISTThe two-week training is a critical aspect of the Gaganyaan project that is aimed at sending three Indians to space by 2022.
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13 space missions before March 2020, ISRO sets target
Science | Nov 27, 2019, 04:23 PM ISTThe Indian space agency has a busy launch schedule this fiscal with about 13 missions on its menu, said a top official. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned 13 missions during this fiscal -- six launch vehicle missions and seven satellite missions before March 2020, said its Chairman K. Sivan post the successful launch of Cartosat-3 and 13 nano satellites from the US.
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DRDO to extend tech for India's first manned space mission
Science | Sep 17, 2019, 08:50 PM ISTIndia's premier defence research organisation, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), will provide critical technologies for India's first manned mission to space, set to be undertaken before the 75th year of Independence.
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Pakistan committed to send its first astronaut in space by 2022: Fawad Chaudhry
World | Sep 16, 2019, 04:31 PM ISTChina would collaborate with Pakistan in its space mission, he said during an interview on Sunday, adding the selection process for the astronaut would start in 2020, reports The News International.
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Key achievements in space mission under Modi government: All you need to know
India | Mar 27, 2019, 09:11 PM ISTIndia has achieved a milestone in its space exploration programme under the Modi government.
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India keen to fly a woman in maiden manned space mission
Jan 12, 2019, 04:53 PM ISTThere will be two unmanned flights by the space agency onboard a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) before the manned mission 'Gaganyaan'.
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Prolonged space missions may affect size, density of spinal muscles
Jan 10, 2019, 04:45 PM ISTIn the study, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) analysed computed tomography (CT) scans of the lumbar (lower) spine in 17 astronauts and cosmonauts who flew missions on the ISS.
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India plans to launch 32 space missions in 2019
India | Jan 02, 2019, 10:40 PM ISTThe missions include the second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 to land on the moon with lander and rover.
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Scientists develop 'Spacesuits' for microbes destined to live in space
Oct 02, 2018, 02:40 PM ISTThe system, developed by researchers at the University of California (UC) Berkeley in the US, mimics photosynthesis in plants.
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ISRO not to fly any living being before actual manned space mission
Sep 14, 2018, 03:36 PM IST"We have no plans to test fly any living being like live animals in our two test flights before sending human beings into the space in our rocket," K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told IANS.
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72nd Independence Day | Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission, to be launched by 2022: PM Modi
Aug 15, 2018, 09:32 AM ISTHe said when India celebrates 75th year of Independence in 2022, "and if possible even before, an Indian son or daughter" will undertake a manned space mission on board 'Gaganyaan' "carrying the national flag".
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burns up over Saturn ending 20-year-long journey
World | Sep 15, 2017, 06:13 PM ISTNASA's $4 billion Cassini spacecraft has burned up in the skies over Saturn as planned, ending a 20-year mission.
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Indian-origin astronaut Shawna Pandya denies being NASA pick
India | Feb 10, 2017, 08:25 PM ISTRefuting all the speculation to fly for NASA, an Indian-origin citizen-astronaut Shawna Pandya said the reports of getting shortlisted by NASA for its 2018 space mission under the Citizen Science Astronaut programme are mistaken. Pandya
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Space mission: China plans 30 launches in 2017
World | Jan 05, 2017, 12:31 PM ISTIn yet another assetion of itsgiant leap in space technology, China plans to conduct some 30 space launch missions in 2017, a record-breaking number in the country's space history, a media report said. According to
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Chinese astronauts to return home after longest space mission
World | Nov 17, 2016, 06:39 PM ISTChina's spacecraft Shenzhou-11, carrying two taikonauts separated from orbiting experimental space labTiangong-2 today as they prepared for their journey to return to earth after a month's stay in space, the longest by Chinese astronauts.
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China all set to launch its manned space mission tomorrow
World | Oct 16, 2016, 09:44 PM ISTChina is ready for its longest-ever manned space mission with a spacecraft carrying two astronauts set to lift off tomorrow to dock with an experimental lab for a month-long stay under the Communist giant's ambitious
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China all set to carry out Shenzhou-11 manned space mission on Monday
World | Oct 16, 2016, 12:24 PM ISTChina is all set to launch the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft tomorrow, as per reports. China will launch a manned space mission on Monday to send two astronauts to dock on its second experimental lab orbiting
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Robots to eventually replace humans on space missions
Jul 26, 2016, 06:47 PM ISTAutonomous robots capable of swimming, climbing and walking will eventually replace humans and animals on space missions.
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Neil Armstrong kept souvenirs from Apollo 11 in his home
World | Feb 11, 2015, 08:19 AM ISTWashington: Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, for decades kept the camera he used to document his first steps on the lunar surface in a bag discovered at his home