London:India has become the world’s first country to launch a smartphone into space – loaded with a number of experimental ‘Apps’, some serious and some just for fun. The British-built Strand-1 spacecraft, developed by scientists in Surrey, was sent into orbit... (Continue reading)
Sriharikota (AP): Indo-French oceanographic study satellite ‘SARAL’ and six foreign mini and micro spacecrafts were succesfully launched today by ISRO’s PSLV-C20 rocket from this spaceport. Indian Space Research Organisation’s(ISRO) workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV) lifted off from the first launch pad... (Continue reading)
Chennai: All is set for the launch of Indo-French satellite ‘SARAL’, aimed at oceanographic studies, and six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard ISRO’s workhorse rocket PSLV from the spaceport of Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The Polar Satellite... (Continue reading)
Tiruchirappalli (TN): BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture, has initiated efforts to develop technology for hypersonic version of the BrahMos missile which can travel at five to seven times the speed of sound, a top company official has said. “The company... (Continue reading)
Seoul:Samsung today unveiled an eight-inch tablet with phonecall capability to rival Apple’s recently launched iPad mini and to cement its market dominance by offering devices in a variety of sizes. The Galaxy Note 8.0 features an eight-inch screen and, where it... (Continue reading)
Chennai: The 59-hour countdown for the February 25 launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to put into orbit seven satellites, including Indo-French spacecraft SARAL, commenced at 6.56 AM today at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the spaceport of Sriharikota. The... (Continue reading)
Washington:Researchers have detected traces of water within the crystalline structure of one of the oldest rocks obtained from the Apollo missions on Moon. The new findings indicate that the early Moon was wet and that water there was not substantially lost... (Continue reading)
Boston:NASA is closely tracking an asteroid large enough to destroy a city that is set to whiz past Earth today in what the US space agency says is the closest flyby ever predicted for such a large object. The 45-meter wide... (Continue reading)
Seoul: North Korea appeared to have carried out a threatened nuclear test today, with international monitoring agencies reporting a seismic event near the site of Pyongyang’s nuclear test site. The tremor, whose magnitude was estimated at between 4.9 and 5.1, was... (Continue reading)
Washington: NASA has announced plans to launch the world’s largest solar sail in 2014 � and it will be travelling an incredible two million miles from Earth. The giant solar sail will use photons from the Sun for propulsion, paving the... (Continue reading)