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Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has returned to India following his historic mission as part of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) program aboard the International Space Station (ISS), marking a monumental moment in the country’s space ambitions. Shukla landed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi, in the early hours of August 17, 2025, completing the nation’s first human
Seventeen days after its launch on July 30, 2025, from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite successfully deployed its giant radar antenna reflector in orbit on August 15, 2025.This reflector is an essential piece of the satellite’s science hardware and measures an impressive 39 feet (12 meters) in diameter. It is the largest antenna
Actor who portrayed commander in 1995 Oscar-winning film says Lovell dared to go to places most wouldn’t goLate Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has received a tribute from Tom Hanks, the actor who brought him to life in an Oscar-winning movie and said h…
Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to EarthJames “Jim” Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He…
India’s space program, led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has achieved significant milestones like the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), reflecting its capability for cost-effective and pioneering space exploration.However, current collaborations, especially with NASA, while beneficial, also underline a dependence on foreign technology—for example, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic
New high-resolution images captured by India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter have uncovered remarkable details of the crash landing of the Athena lander, a mission by the Houston-based company Intuitive Machines aiming to deliver NASA science instruments near the Moon’s south pole.The Athena lander touched down on March 6, 2025, in the challenging and shadowed region of Mons Mouton. Although
THE US has unveiled plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon as it seeks to get ahead of China and Russia in the new-age space race.
The aim is to mark American territory on …
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who recently returned from a landmark 20-day space mission aboard the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) spacecraft, has expressed a strong commitment to leveraging his experiences and learnings for India’s ambitious Gaganyaan mission slated for 2027.Shukla, who became the second Indian astronaut to travel to space after Rakesh Sharma’s historic Soviet mission in 1984, embarked on
The NASA–ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, launched on July 30, 2025, aboard ISRO’s GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, is a significant joint Earth observation endeavour aimed at providing unprecedented high-resolution, all-weather, day-and-night imaging to monitor global climate and disaster dynamics.The satellite carries advanced dual-band L- and
The NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission has entered a critical 90-day commissioning phase following its successful launch on July 30, 2025, aboard a GSLV-F16 rocket from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.This commissioning period involves rigorous satellite system checks, calibrations, and orbital adjustments to prepare the observatory for its full-scale Earth observation