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“Brahmos, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired today on 18th October 2020 from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea,” the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in a statement. The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy after performing high-level and extremely Read More…
Neowise is a comet discovered on March 27 by NASA’s, Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, an orbiting telescope. Astronomers have calculated that the next time the comet makes its visit to the solar system will be 6,800 years later. The discovery of the comet has come as an opportunity for astronomers and Read More…
The entire world witnessed the annular solar eclipse, which is popularly known as the “ring of fire” eclipse on Sunday. This is a special solar eclipse as it will fall with the summer solstice which is the longest day of 2020. and been seen from Asia, Africa, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, parts of Europe Read More…
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun’s, blocking most of the Sun’s light and causing the Sun to Read More…
[splco_heading size=”17″ align=”left” margin=”30″]The launch of a mission that would have taken two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) was called-off due to poor weather conditions on May 28 .[/splco_heading] However then US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken started their journey towards the ISS from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 Read More…
In a major setback to India’s aspiration towards space program India’s Chandrayaan 2 mission lost communication with ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru after coming tantalizingly close to making a successful landing on early hours of Saturday. The signal from lander Vikram was lost during the Fine Breaking phase of its descent when it was Read More…
Astronomers on Wednesday released the first ever photo of a black hole the mysterious dying stage of a heavyweight star with such a huge gravity that even light, the fastest runner in the Universe can’t escape its pull, making it literally black. Four images of the black hole were released by the scientists as Read More…
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said about 60 pieces have been tracked so far and out of which 24 are going above the apogee of the ISS. “That is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris and an apogee that goes above the international space station. That kind of activity is Read More…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the country’s first electronic surveillance satellite, EMISAT, from Sriharikota in coastal Andhra Pradesh on Monday morning. As many as 28 small satellites of international customers were also put in space as secondary riders. This is the third such mission and carries an ISRO test on Automatic Read More…
… In the backdrop of the Cold War and a perceived threat of strikes from space, both the United States and the erstwhile USSR worked on the Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) programme, back in 1959. It is the background Sixty years later, India conducted its first anti-satellite missile test. In a specially televised Read More…
