NASA praises ISRO, offers training for Indian astronauts
The world’s largest space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now seeks to partner with the Indian Space Research Organisation for future space endeavours and has offered that India could use its top class facilities [...]
PSLV-C18 successfully sends 4 satellites to orbit
India’s PSLV-C18 soars into space with Megha-Tropiques satellite on Wednesday, October 12, 2011.
India’s workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18), which will put into orbit the Megha-Tropiques satellite and three nano [...]
IIT Students’ Satellite ‘Jugnu’ Launched into Space
A nano-satellite built by students of IIT Kanpur, ‘Jugnu’, was launched with the latest version of India’s indigenous Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from Sriharikota, Andhra [...]
Composite of a Series of Images Taken From Space Aboard the Station
Psychedelic Space Redux
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth.
Space station hardware in the foreground includes [...]
Transit of Venus App Enables Cosmic Calculations
A built-in timer allows users to calculate the length of the planet’s shadow on the solar disk to reproduce an experiment done in the 19th century with less precise instruments
On June 5-6, amateur and professional astronomers alike will [...]
Silicon trick for next-gen memory
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip.The device is a “memristor”, a long-hypothesised but only recently demonstrated electronic component.A memristor’s [...]
Partial lunar eclipse on Monday, no show in India
A partial lunar eclipse will grace the night sky tomorrow but astronomy lovers in India will miss the event as the celestial phenomenon will not be visible from any part in the country.
“The eclipse will be partly visible from western [...]
Seven test tube twins born in 12 hours to create world record in Bulandshahr
Fourteen test tube babies were born using the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure to seven childless mothers in Bulandshahr.
Gist:
Uttar Pradesh doctors have set a new world record.
Fourteen test tube babies were born using the in-vitro [...]
PROBA-2:Proposals invited for the PROBA-2 Guest Investigator Programme
The Royal Observatory of Belgium is soliciting proposals for analysis of data from PROBA-2′s two solar observation instruments, SWAP and LYRA, under its Guest Investigator Programme. Proposals in response to this Third Call for Ideas [...]
From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times. Barrie Berg, the chief executive of American operations for What If, in one of the diner-style booths the firm installed in its Manhattan office. “There’s something very satisfying about a booth,” [...]
