NEW DELHI: In a significant step toward sustainable space exploration, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has pledged to achieve debris-free space missions by the end of this decade. This initiative follows a recent satellite mission that “practically left zero debris in orbit,” as said by Isro Chairman S Somanath. The mission accomplished this by … Read more
People watch a live stream of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s landing on the moon, inside an auditorium of Gujarat Science City in Ahmedabad, India, August 23, 2023. (Reuters) India’s space ambitions revealed in BJP’s election manifesto, targeting moon landing by 2035 and an Indian Space Station in LEO by 2040 The Indian Space Station is currently in … Read more
NEW DELHI: An active Nasa spacecraft narrowly avoided a collision with an inactive Russian satellite in low Earth orbit.The close encounter between Nasa’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission spacecraft and the Russian Cosmos 2221 satellite was predicted to occur at around 1:30am EST on February 28, at an altitude of about 373 … Read more
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