Nags Head, North Carolina: Skies cleared and floodwaters receded Saturday from North Carolina ’s Outer Banks, leaving behind a muddy trail of destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian, which turned north and began lashing parts of eastern Canada. Dorian’s worst damage in the U.S. appeared to be on Ocracoke Island, which even in good weather is […]
Read MoreBengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday said till date 90 to 95 per cent of the Chandrayaan-2 mission objectives have been accomplished and it would continue contributing to Lunar science despite the loss of communication with the Lander. The space agency also said the precise launch and mission management had ensured a long […]
Read MoreKolkata: The Department of Posts, West Bengal, on Saturday released a commemorative Special Cover on the Chandrayaan-2 mission. The Special Cover was released at a function at the General Post Office (GPO) here. “The Special Cover is to pay tribute to our scientists who took India’s space research so far,” Post-Master General Kolkata Amitabh Singh […]
Read MoreNew Delhi: The success rate of lunar missions undertaken in the last six decades is 60 per cent, according to US space agency NASA’s ‘Moon Fact Sheet’. Of the 109 lunar missions during the period, 61 were successful and 48 had failed, it stated. In the early hours of Saturday, Indian space agency ISRO’s plan […]
Read MoreBengaluru: After a pep talk to scientists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday gave a long and tight hug to an emotional ISRO chief K Sivan, who was in tears, unable to come to termsover lander Vikram’s unsuccessful bid to soft-land on the moon. Modi, in his address at the ISRO centre here, asked the […]
Read More