A forthcoming satellite, NISAR, jointly developed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the US’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will map the most earthquake-prone regions in the Himalayas with unprecedented regularity. Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak A forthcoming satellite, NISAR, jointly developed the Indian Space Research Organisation … Read more
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed three contracts worth ₹5,400 crore — two with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) worth ₹2,400 crore for procurement of Automated Air Defence Control and Reporting System ‘Project Akashteer’ for the Army and Sarang Electronic Support Measure (ESM) systems for the Navy. Another ₹2,963 crore contract is with NewSpace India … Read more
ISRO on Tuesday successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT-1). The final two de-boost burns were executed at 11.02 UTC and 12. 51 UTC respectively. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Tuesday, March 7, successfully carried out the controlled re-entry experiment for the decommissioned … Read more
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be undertaking a challenging experiment of a controlled re-entry of the decommissioned Megha-Tropiques-1 (MT1) satellite on March 7. The MT1 is a joint Indo-French satellite launched in 2011 for tropical weather and climate studies which was providing data services, supporting regional and global climate models till 2021. The … Read more
First-day images received by the Earth Observation Satellite-06 on November 29 2022, at NRSC, Shadnagar cover the Himalayan region, Gujarat Kutch region and the Arabian Sea. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@ISRO The Earth Observation Satellite-06 launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation on November 26 has started serving images, the national space agency said on Wednesday. … Read more
Sangrur: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday visited PGIMER Satellite Centre in this Punjab town to review its progress, and said that it will be functional by January next year. Expressing satisfaction at the pace of the execution of the project, the minister said, “With the pace at which the … Read more
A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again. It’s been an unusual journey already for the Capstone satellite. It was launched six days ago from … Read more
Dehradun: In a major boost to health infrastructure in Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, a satellite centre of AIIMS Rishikesh will be opened in Udham Singh Nagar district. The satellite centre, to come up on land provided by Uttarakhand government, will cater to residents of Kumaon region and those living in adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh. … Read more
China successfully launched a new satellite on Sunday to test and verify space debris mitigation technologies. It was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The satellite, named Shijian-21, was launched by a Long March-3B carrier rocket and it entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellite will be mainly used … Read more
The stubble burning cases are rising in Punjab every day as the paddy harvesting season nears the peak. The continued burning of paddy straw in Haryana and Punjab contributed to 10 per cent of the total PM 2.5 pollution load in Delhi-NCR on October 19, 2020. Officials from Punjab and Haryana said stubble burning has … Read more