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NASA to launch satellite made by 3 Indian students
An experimental satellite made by three students of Karur, Tamil Nadu has been selected for launch in sub-orbital space by NASA. It took over two
ISRO to test ground landing of India’s own Space Shuttle RLV
ISRO is planning to build RLV like United States’s Space Shuttle, to place satellites in orbit and return to land for the following missions. This
ISS gets a new $23 million titanium space toilet
On October 5, 2020, the International Space Station received about 4 tons of fresh supplies which included the new titanium space toilet. The supplies were
ISRO to launch its new SSLV rocket by December 2020
ISRO is aspiring to launch its new rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), before the year’s end. Promoted by ISRO as an advantageous small
3 astrophysicists share Nobel Prize in Physics for black hole discoveries
The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for finding “a
ISRO and JAXA to collaborate on Lunar Polar Exploration Mission
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is taking a shot at its subsequent Moon landing mission, Chandrayaan-3, one year from now, has now formed
India to launch its first Venus orbiter Shukrayaan-1 in 2025
ISRO is set to launch its first Venus orbiter Shukrayaan-1 in 2025 and France will take part in it, French space agency CNES stated on
ISRO’s AstroSat completes 5 years of imaging galaxies
AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength cosmic observatory has completed five years of imaging celestial bodies in space. Launched by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on
Planet Pi: An exoplanet that orbits its star every 3.14 days
Astronomers have found a new Earth-like exoplanet that orbits around its star every 3.14 days hence, called the “π” (Pi) planet. The exoplanet is around