Axiom Mission 4 crew (from left to right) European Space Agency astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. File photo: X@NASASpaceOps via PTI Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and other crew members of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) are…
ISRO’s 101st launch: EOS-09 mission could not be accomplished, says chief Narayanan ISRO’s 101st launch mission with PSLV-C61 at 5:59 AM IST on May 18, 2025, carried EOS-09, a 1696 kg Earth observation satellite, into a Sun-Synchronous Polar Orbit. Source link
Spy satellites may have been used in the lead-up to the terror attack in Pahalgam, reports say. But India also uses such satellites through the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and has ramped up their deployment. How do these sky-borne spooks really work? Also Read | What the US-China trade deal means for IT services…
Operation Sindoor was India’s calibrated response to the Pahalgam terror attack. It was carried out in the early hours of 7 May, against nine terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Indian Air Force bypassed and jammed Pakistan’s Chinese-supplied air defence systems, and completed the mission in just 23 minutes. Also read: ‘Serve…
Mumbai: The Centre does not intend to alter its foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy in the space sector, said Pawan Goenka, chairman of the Department of Space-affiliated regulatory body for the space industry, Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Centre (In-Space), on Monday. Based on the Union government’s amended space FDI policy from February last…
Representative purposes. | Photo Credit: DRDO A set of parachutes developed for the first uncrewed mission of India’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme was shipped from Agra on Monday (May 5, 2025). The parachutes were developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), an Agra-based laboratory under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)….
A little bit more than 124 light years from Earth, circling an otherwise uninteresting star in the constellation of Leo, sits a planet called K2-18 b. It is one of thousands of exoplanets spotted by Kepler, a space telescope that was launched in 2009 and is designed for the task. In 2019 observations by the…
Bengaluru, Apr 27 (PTI) ISRO Chairman V Narayanan has remembered Dr Kasturirangan as a transformative figure of the nation, who profoundly shaped India’s space ambitions, educational framework, and showed the vision for the future. In his condolence message, he said, Kasturirangan’s life, marked by an unwavering pursuit of knowledge and its application for the nation’s…
Former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan passed away on Friday in Bengaluru, officials said. “He left for heavenly abode this morning at his residence in Bengaluru. His body will be kept at Raman Research Institute (RRI) for paying last respects on April 27,” as per a PTI report quoting officials. Kasturirangan, who was 84 at the…
Indian air force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, is set to create history by piloting NASA and ISRO’s joint space mission to the International Space Station later this year. According to a NASA statement last week, Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot its mission travel to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Florida “no earlier than spring…
