Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the International Space Station next month as part of an Axiom-4 mission, four decades after Rakesh Sharma’s iconic spaceflight on-board Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday. Singh made the remarks after reviewing the work of the Department of Space and the Indian…
A team of researchers led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Dr Nikku Madhusudhan claimed on Thursday to have found the strongest indication yet of extraterrestrial life, not in our solar system but on a massive planet, known as K2-18b, that orbits a star 120 light-years from Earth, New York Times reported. A repeated analysis of the exoplanet’s…
The Indian Space Research Organization on August 16 brought up the EOS-08 Earth Observation Satellite onboard the small Satellite Launch Vehicle-D3 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The small satellite launch-D3 in its third and final development flight took off from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 9.17 am.
