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Space Xs Falcon 9 rocket prepared for a launch to the International Space Station in February 2017 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite

The satellite is designed to operate for five years, and will orbit the Earth once every 100 minutes.

25 Aug 2017 7:31 AM IST

ÂThe H-IIA rocket blasts off from the Tanegashima space centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Japan launches satellite for better GPS system

The launch was initially scheduled last week but was postponed due to a technical glitch.

19 Aug 2017 3:33 PM IST

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M aboard, in a NASA handout photo obtained on August 18, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

NASA launches satellite to help astronauts communicate with Earth

The satellite will "support critical space communication into the mid-2020s," NASA said in a statement.

19 Aug 2017 8:02 AM IST

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and Sergey Ryazanskiy are pictured in the Orlan spacesuits they are wearing during todays spacewalk. Credit: @SergeyISS

Cosmonauts release 3D-printed satellite into space

The exterior casing of the first one tossed overboard was made with a 3-D printer.

18 Aug 2017 10:02 AM IST

A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket -- like the one seen in this file photo taken on April 28, 2016 -- launched 73 satellites into orbit on Friday

Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit

According to Russian news agencies, Glavcosmos, charged with putting the satellites into orbit.

15 July 2017 8:00 AM IST

President Pranab Mukherjee (Photo: PTI)

Satellite launch to cement India's ties with neighbours: Pranab...

He also congratulated ISRO on the successful launch of the South Asia satellite-GSAT-09.

5 May 2017 8:41 PM IST

Initially named SAARC Satellite, the satellite was renamed South Asia Satellite after Pakistan refused to join project.

PM's gift satellite to SAARC buddies to take off today

The new South Asia Satellite will catalyze economic development and governance in six Saarc nations

5 May 2017 9:33 AM IST

SpaceX regularly launches unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX makes first US military launch, then lands rocket again

SpaceX also has a pair of launch contracts coming up for the Air Force to send GPS satellites into orbit.

2 May 2017 8:26 AM IST

Last year, a tiny piece of debris punched a gaping hole in the solar panel of Copernicus Sentinel-1A, an observation satellite operated by the European Space Agency, or ESA.

Chinese researchers teleport object to orbit for the first time

The object-in-question is a photon, which travelled from Gobi desert to a satellite called Micius' orbiting 500...

12 July 2017 10:02 AM IST

The worlds smallest rocket SS-520 carrying a mini satellite for observation of the Earths surface is launched from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, on January 15, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

Japan aborts mini-rocket mission shortly after liftoff

The rocket was carrying 3Kg TRICOM-1 observation satellite.

16 Jan 2017 7:52 AM IST

Internet entrepreneur Elon Musks SpaceX has for years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings on solid ground and in the water

SpaceX launches its first recycled rocket in historic leap

If SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system proves reusable, it could slash space launch costs by 30 per cent

31 March 2017 8:09 AM IST

The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (Photo: AP)

Best weather satellite ever built rockets into space

NASA declared success 3 1/2 hours after liftoff, following separation from the upper stage.

21 Nov 2016 9:09 AM IST