From tiny outhouse to the Moon: How this 'Rocket Boy' put India on the space mapThe Chandrayaan-3 lander, named Vikram after the father of India's space program, has successfully landed on the Moon. This milestone refle...
23 Aug, 2023, 11.55 PM IST
ISRO conducts 200th consecutive successful launch of RH200 sounding rocketThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday termed it a "historic moment". It was witnessed by former President Ram Nath Kov...
24 Nov, 2022, 08.17 AM IST
In a first, ISRO supplies rocket system to support a private launch vehicle"The official handing over event happened marking the culmination of multiple rounds of interactions about interfacing, handling and using ...
11 Nov, 2022, 02.12 PM IST
ISRO successfully demonstrates Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator technologyThe IAD was initially folded and kept inside the payload bay of the rocket. At around 84 km altitude, the IAD was inflated and it descended...
03 Sep, 2022, 11.58 PM IST
Kerala has reputation of 'militant trade unionism' due to nokkukooli: HCThe court said it no longer wants to hear the term nokkukooli in the state and directed the police to take action against anyone, irrespect...
07 Oct, 2021, 08.23 PM IST
Investors wary of 'nokku-kooli' in Kerala: High CourtThe court said if the State government wants to attract businesses, it should stop the trade unions from extortion. "This practice was bann...
10 Sep, 2021, 07.52 PM IST
India makes shortlist of astronauts for first manned space flightThe Indian Air Force has short-listed test pilots after clinical, radiological and physical exercise tests.
06 Sep, 2019, 10.41 PM IST
Modi's JFK moment spurs India to plan crewed spaceflight by 2022India, the world’s cheapest space explorer, is competing with the likes of the U.S., China, Russia.
28 Aug, 2018, 07.48 PM IST
Vikram Sarabhai, the scientist, innovator, businessman, art connoisseur who put India on the global space mapHe established the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad.
12 Aug, 2018, 09.52 AM IST
RH300 sounding rocket to be launched tomorrow in KeralaThe skies of state capital and nearby areas will witness a spectacular display of a long trail of interleaved pattern of white and blue lig...
05 Apr, 2018, 09.52 PM IST
India's rocket dreams were born in AhmedabadBack then, it was a proposal to fly American made Nike-Apache sounding rockets for upper atmospheric studies.
17 Feb, 2017, 12.13 PM IST
The man who won India's heart: My colleague APJ Abdul Kalam , a karmayogiWithout a family or any possession worth mentioning, Kalam dedicated himself to work. Life, for Kalam, meant setting goals and achieving th...
28 Jul, 2015, 11.49 AM IST
What necessitated the positioning of 14 of 20 major Isro Centres in southern statesFor those disbelieving kids, the women would point to the night sky and show the occasional ball of fire that disappeared in seconds.
20 Feb, 2015, 11.59 AM IST
Parliamentary panel members visit ISRO centres in Kerala capitalThe success achieved in Mars Orbiter Mission has enabled India enter the select league of nations which have expertise in this field.
06 Nov, 2014, 09.04 PM IST
Mars Orbiter Mission: From a small fishing village to the red planet, pioneers saw futureISRO's successful MOM is a demonstration of how the next generation of scientists have made the country a space superpower.
26 Sep, 2014, 10.56 AM IST
India's dream to Mars conceived from Vikram Sarabhai's homeWhen the nation eagerly watched the launch of Mangalyaan in Nov last year it was a dream, born from an in Shahibaugh, which was finally rea...
10 May, 2014, 11.23 AM IST
Tessy Thomas, DRDO project director: The force behind Agni V launchA rare woman in a male bastion, since childhood, Tessy was wonder-struck at rocket launches from Thumba on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapu...
20 Apr, 2012, 01.13 PM IST