SCIENCE & RESEARCH

Space enthusiasts hail ISRO

10:19 pm July 22, 2019

Sriharikota, (AP): Anxiety gave way to unbridled joy for thousands of space enthusiasts gathered here after ISRO successfully Monday launched its second lunar mission Chandrayaan 2. The 7,500 seat gallery set up by ISRO to witness the rocket launch, a few kilometers away from the second launch pad, was full with those registering last week […]

China’s experimental space lab to re-enter earth’s atmosphere

12:51 pm July 19, 2019

Beijing: China’s experimental space lab Tiangong-2 will have controlled descent from its orbit and re-enter the earth’s atmosphere to fall into the Pacific Ocean, the country’s official space agency said. All of the space lab’s assigned tasks have been finished. It is scheduled to fall out of orbit and re-enter the atmosphere under the supervision […]

Chandrayaan-2 launch rescheduled for July 22: ISRO

7:15 pm July 18, 2019

Bengaluru: India’s second mission to the Moon Chandrayaan-2, which was called off due to a technical snag, has been rescheduled for launch on July 22, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday. On July 15, the launch was aborted 56 minutes and 24 seconds before lift-off at 1.55 am following a technical problem […]

BMC to set up desalination plant to solve Mumbai's water woes

This low-cost filter removes arsenic, iron from water

2:37 pm July 17, 2019

New Delhi: Researchers have developed a simple and cost-effective filtration system that may help reduce the health burden caused by arsenic and iron contaminated groundwater. Arsiron Nilogon, developed by a team led by Robin Kumar Dutta from Tezpur University in Assam, filters out 99.9 per cent of the arsenic contamination from the groundwater to make […]

ISRO has launched several satellites using GSLV variants

10:11 pm July 15, 2019

Sriharikota (AP): Technical problems are nothing new to the Indian Space Research Organisation which has overcome them and launched several satellites using different variants of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. In a jolt to the Indian space programme, the launch of India’s second mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-2, using the GSLV-Mk-III rocket variant was called […]