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We are also conducting certain competitions at school levels. We have state level and national level openings for school students where they will get an opportunity to showcase their skills, Annadurai said. (Photo: ANI)

India

Man mission to Mars in another 20-25 yrs, says Mylswamy Annadurai

Mylswamy Annadurai is a scientist and the present project director of Chandrayaan-2, an Indian lunar mission to the...

30 Jun 2019 12:51 PM IST

The effort is part of SpaceXs mission to lower the cost of space flight by re-using costly, multimillion-dollar components that typically have been discarded into the ocean after each launch. (Photo: Space X Twitter)

Science

SpaceX eyes Florida for launch site for Mars rocket

The Starship rocket is expected to launch up to 24 times a year from SpaceX's current flagship launchpad 39A.

6 Aug 2019 10:48 AM IST

India

Space-related legislation on anvil

Bill proposes action against commercial space activity sans licence.

12 Sept 2019 1:34 AM IST

This photo provided by NASA, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASAs Perseverance blasted off atop an Atlas V rocket Thursday morning. (Photo |

Technology

Perseverance, NASA's Mars Rover, blasts off on mission

The Mars rover rode an Atlas V rocket in the third and final Mars launch of summer 2020, and hopes to bring back first...

30 July 2020 6:55 PM IST

$Sarah Amiri, deputy project manager of the United Arab Emirates Mars mission, talks about the project named \Hope,\ or \al-Amal\ in Arabic, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, during a ceremony in Dubai, UAE.(AP)$ World

UAE's Mars mission delayed again due to bad weather

Named Al-Amal or Hope', the probe is the first-ever Arab space mission now set to be launched on coming Friday

16 July 2020 8:48 AM IST

An artist concept of NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. (Image | NASA/JPL)

Technology

Missions to Mars have been sent since the 1960s, here's where we are...

Three missions to the Red Planet are scheduled in July, by UAE, China and the United States.

10 July 2020 8:17 PM IST

Drilling is a vitally important part of Curiositys capabilities to study Mars. (Photo: NASA)

Science

NASA Curiosity rover drilling Mars rocks again

Curiosity tested percussive drilling this past weekend, penetrating about two inches into a target called "Duluth."

25 May 2018 2:39 PM IST

The country had on 24 September 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red plane.

Life

Mars valleys were created by run-off rainwater: study

The atmosphere on Mars may have been much denser about 3.6 to 3.8 billion years ago than it is today.

30 Jun 2018 4:13 PM IST

This combination of images from video made available by NASA shows steps in the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on February 18, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

Science

NASA releases Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'

The Perseverance rover landed last Thursday near an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater to search for signs of ancient...

23 Feb 2021 11:49 AM IST

In this handout photograph released on July 20, 2020, by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries an H-2A rocket carrying the Hope Probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, developed by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in UAE to explore Mars, blasts off from Tanegashima Space Centre in southwestern Japan. (Photo by Handout / Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / AFP)

Science

Arab spacecraft closes in on Mars on historic flight

For the UAE, it was the country's first venture beyond Earth's orbit, making the flight a matter of intense national...

9 Feb 2021 12:25 PM IST

$\If astronauts are going to make journeys that span several years, well need to find a way to reuse and recycle everything they bring with them,\ says Mark Blenner, lead researcher. (Representational Image: Clip from The Martian (2015).$ Science

Scientists to use human urine for making plastic parts in space

Scientists have found a way to turn human urine into plastics using biologically engineered yeast.

25 Aug 2017 11:28 AM IST

US Navy divers and other personnel practicing for recovery of Orion on its return from deep space missions, using a test version of the crew module (Photo: AFP)

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NASA delays deep-space Orion test to 2019 due to costs

The first test flight of NASA's Orion capsule, designed to one day carry people to Mars, has been delayed until 2019

13 May 2017 7:40 AM IST