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Chennai: The Kulasekarapattinam spaceport in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district, the second launch complex for ISRO outside Andhra Pradesh, will see the maiden launch with the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) in 24 months, chairman of the space agency V Narayanan said Monday. The Indian Space...

New Delhi: The Centre has recently accorded approval for the ambitious Chandrayaan-5 mission to study the Moon, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said. At an event to felicitate him for taking over as the Chairman of the Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation, Narayanan said that unlike...

Cape Canaveral: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth later Tuesday evening after spending nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to...

Bengaluru: ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Chandigarh have jointly developed 32-bit Microprocessors -- Vikram 3201 and Kalpana 3201-- for space applications, the space agency has said. Vikram 3201 is the first fully Indian-made 32-bit microprocessor qualified for use in the harsh...

New York: SpaceX's Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, bringing hope for the return of two NASA astronauts -- Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore -- who have been stuck in orbit for months. The space capsule, launched Friday from Texas,...

New Delhi: Apple is planning to start production of airpods for exports at the Foxconn plant in Hyderabad from April, sources said. Airpods will be the second product category that Apple will start producing in India after iPhones. "Production of Airpods is going to start...

Cape Canaveral: Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — representing the US, Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days...

New Delhi: SpaceX’s Starship and heavy booster -- the world's biggest and most powerful rocket system -- will launch for Mars by 2026, and human landings on the Red Planet will likely begin in 2031, said billionaire Elon Musk Saturday. In a post shared on...

Cape Canaveral (US): The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts --Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams -- launched to the International Space Station Friday night, paving the way for the pair's return after nine long months. Wilmore and Williams need SpaceX to get this relief team...

Beijing: An international team of astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way. This breakthrough will provide critical support for precise astronomical observation, and for studies in the areas of astrochemistry and galactic evolution, Xinhua...