India’s first manned space mission ‘Gaganyaan’ will take place in 2023, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh has said. With this launch, India will become the fourth country in the world to launch a manned space mission after the USA, Russia and China. The test vehicle flight for the crew escape system and Gaganyan’s (G1)’s…
The Dwarf Planet was named after the famous Indian musician Pandit Jasraj by the International Astronomical Union. Pandit Jasraj is a 2006 dwarf planet orbiting Mars and Jupiter named VP32. This is the first time an Indian object has been named after a space object. There are space objects named after Mozart and Beethoven. According…
An ISRO spokesman said the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter had been diverted to avoid a major collision. The decision to make the change came a week before the two satellites approached. If the orbit had been the same, Chandrayaan and the LRO would have come within three kilometers. NASA and ISRO have agreed to change the orbits…
The first rocket was launched from Thumpa, Thiruvananthapuram on November 21, 1963 in gratitude for India’s space program. Payload on a bicycle, a rocket in an old jeep, also donated by the US, a crowd of scientists from the US, Russia and France marching to the launch pad to help launch … This is the…
In April 2017, Indian astronomers discovered a super mega cluster 400 billion light-years from Earth. Superclusters are one of the largest structures in the universe. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million superclusters in the visible universe. Galaxies, galaxies, and dark matter all form clusters of galaxies. Such local clusters, and groups…
The Himalayas are the largest mountain range on earth. The most beautiful and amazing creation of nature. This mountain range is home to a spider that jumps. Known as the Himalayan Jumping Spider, this spider lives at an altitude of 6700 m. To think that there is no other living thing on earth that has…
An Indian-origin man is leading SpaceX’s new space mission to NASA. This is the first time an Indian man has taken control of a spacecraft. The four-member team, led by Raja Chari, 44, a US Air Force pilot with family roots in Telangana, set out. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched Wednesday night with the…
Indian astronomers have developed an innovative method to study the atmosphere of exoplanets more clearly. New research suggests that planets orbiting other stars could be studied by studying the polarization of light from them. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics are behind the new study model. The new model was developed by Aritra Chakraborty,…
South Africa has the largest radio telescope in the world. The 64D radio radio telescope was commissioned in 2018 after completing construction on Cornwall, the northern tip of South Africa. The project is called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). It’s not. The telescope is set up for partial operations. It will have to wait until…
February 1, 2003; The U.S. spacecraft Columbia crashed into the sky over Texas 16 minutes before it was due to return to Earth. Seven astronauts, including Kalpana Chawla, of Indian descent, have died in the crash.It was later discovered that the crash was caused by some technical glitches that occurred during the launch itself. Parts…
