Soviet spacecraft bound for Venus got stuck in Earth's orbit for 50 years and now threatens usKosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft from 1972, is returning to Earth. The mission to Venus failed, trapping the spacecraft in Earth's orbit. No...
06 May, 2025, 01.17 PM IST
ISRO’s Shukrayaan takes off—on paper: Govt greenlights Venus mission to study planet's weather, atmosphereThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has unveiled an ambitious roadmap, securing approval for its first Venus mission, Shukrayaan,...
26 Nov, 2024, 12.05 PM IST
As Elon Musk plans human colony on Mars, here's what India is planning for our neighbouring red planet and VenusIndia's space agency, ISRO, unveils ambitious plans for a Mars landing and a space station, aiming to facilitate a moon landing by 2040. Th...
26 Nov, 2024, 11.39 AM IST
Why does Jupiter have 95 moons and Earth only one? Why moons are not pulled in by sun? Mystery unraveled, details hereJupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are much larger than Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus and they have larger Hill sphere radii. They are al...
01 Jul, 2024, 08.00 PM IST
ISRO sets sights on Sun, Venus and Mars: Successful moon landing boosts India's space ambitionsIndia's space agency, ISRO, is preparing for its next mission to investigate the Sun with the launch of the Aditya-L1 spacecraft. This will...
24 Aug, 2023, 01.34 PM IST
Polar satellite, experimental heat shield for enabling humans' presence on Mars travel to space aboard Atlas V rocket. See detailsThe polar satellite launched earlier in the day from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California, looks to reveal promising informati...
10 Nov, 2022, 09.49 PM IST
NASA satellite breaks from orbit around Earth, heads to moon"It's probably going to take a while to sink in. It's been a project that has taken us two, two-and-a-half years and is just incredibly, in...
04 Jul, 2022, 05.10 PM IST
Sweden getting on board India's Venus mission with payload to explore planetThe VNA would be the ninth generation of IRFs series of miniatured ion and ENA (Energetic Neutral Atoms) instruments, according to Swedish ...
25 Nov, 2020, 12.38 PM IST
Shukrayaan: India's proposed Venus mission attracts international payload proposalsThese include "collaborative contributions" from Russia, France, Sweden and Germany, sources in the Bengaluru- headquartered space agency s...
23 Nov, 2020, 01.26 PM IST
- Israel launches first environmental research satellite
Jerusalem, Aug 2 (IANS) Israel has successfully launched its first spatial environmental research vehicle designed for orbital monitoring o...
02 Aug, 2017, 07.07 PM IST
Stage set for GSAT-17 to blast off from French Guiana: ISROGSAT-17 is getting launched on June 28. We will be working on the replacement satellite for IRNSS-1, said ISRO Chairman A S Kiran.
23 Jun, 2017, 03.10 PM IST
Venus mission: ISRO invites proposals for space experimentsThough no time-frame has been set by the ISRO for the ambitious mission, indications are that the Indian Venusian orbiter mission may not h...
24 Apr, 2017, 07.19 PM IST
Venus mission: Isro invites proposals for space experimentsAccording to Isro, the exploration of Venus began in the early 1960s with fly by and lander missions and atmospheric probes.
24 Apr, 2017, 05.44 PM IST
With an eye on Venus and Mars, ISRO will soon attempt a mega world recordThis year's budget contained the first formal official acknowledgement about these two new bold inter-planetary sojourns to Earth's immedia...
12 Feb, 2017, 03.03 PM IST
France, India charting new orbit to jointly explore Mars, Venus: Jean-Yves Le Gall, French Space AgencyPutting a lander on Mars would be an interesting prospect and France is ready to work with India on it, says the chief of French Space Agen...
31 Jan, 2016, 09.24 AM IST
3 ISRO achievements that made Indians proudIndian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has given us many reasons to celebrate in the past, and it is back once again with good news.
06 Aug, 2015, 01.10 PM IST
US looks to work with India in deep space explorationThe unthinkable is already happening in space, India and America are together planning to explore the last unknown frontier. Until recently...
19 Jul, 2015, 03.15 PM IST