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OneWeb has offered the Russian government the option of buying a 12.5-percent stake in the company.

US OneWeb satellite service has not offered stake to Russia

Russia's Federal Security Service said it was against the OneWeb's project to bring internet access to remote parts of...

30 Dec 2018 11:32 AM IST

TESS Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Photo: NASA)

NASA's planet-hunting probe completes lunar flyby

As part of camera commissioning, the science team snapped a two-second test exposure using one of the four TESS cameras.

20 May 2018 2:57 PM IST

Musk aims to make rockets as reusable as commercial aeroplanes, bringing down the cost of spaceflight and boosting efficiency. (Photo: SpaceX)

Elon Musk's Falcon 9 deploys 10 satellites, but loses its nose

The nose was said to impact water at high speed, with Elon Musk not confirming successful recovery.

31 March 2018 2:06 PM IST

On its website, NASA explains that it does use the materials for wind experiments launched on sounding rockets to the upper atmosphere.

NASA's mini-satellites successfully steer towards Mars

Over the last week, two CubeSats called MarCO-A and MarCO-B have been firing their propulsion systems to guide...

4 Jun 2018 6:28 PM IST

The problem with the satellites advanced imager cropped up during routine testing several weeks after liftoff. (Photo: NASA via AP)

Ailing weather satellite produces sharp snapshot of Earth

GOES-17's critical infrared sensors in the main instrument were not staying cold enough.

2 Jun 2018 9:55 AM IST

The burning of paddy straw and wheat every year during October, November and April months is one of the major contributors of air pollution in Delhi.

'States failed to check stubble burning'

Committee noted that subsidy schemes have not helped much to address the issue.

8 Aug 2018 5:34 AM IST

The satellite applications include forestry mapping, land use and ice cover monitoring, flood and disaster monitoring and maritime missions.

PSLV-C42 launches two foreign satellites

The PSLV-C42 lifted off from the First Launch Pad of SHAR at 10.08 pm.

17 Sept 2018 10:15 AM IST

Fridays payload, known as Iridium 4, brings to 40 the number of new Iridium satellites now in orbit.

SpaceX launches 10 more satellites for Iridium

Some of the satellites are designed to help track ships and aircraft in real time.

23 Dec 2017 11:54 AM IST

Consensus has long been that the Earths core is about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent

Adopt a piece of Earth through NASA's new campaign

NASA is celebrating Earth Day through their Adopt the Planet campaign, wherein users can virtually adopt a piece of...

17 April 2017 3:52 PM IST