Made for mission life of six months, India's Mars probe completes seven years in orbitISRO has been continuously monitoring the spacecraft and its five scientific instruments, and officials said analysis of the data being rec...
26 Sep, 2021, 09.26 PM IST
Google Doodle pays tribute to Udupi Ramachandra Rao, India’s 'Satellite Man’, on his 89th birth anniversaryRao supervised the 1975 launch of India's first-ever satellite called 'Aryabhata'.
10 Mar, 2021, 11.12 AM IST
United Arab Emirates publishes first photo from Mars probeThe picture, taken Wednesday, shows sunlight just coming across the surface of Mars. It shows Mars' north pole, as well as Mars' largest vo...
14 Feb, 2021, 03.44 PM IST
China's Mars probe sends back video of Red PlanetIn the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch black sky against the ...
12 Feb, 2021, 04.30 PM IST
UAE's Hope Probe nears Mars in first Arab missionThe Mars programme is part of the UAE's efforts to develop its scientific and technological capabilities and reduce its reliance on oil.
09 Feb, 2021, 05.28 PM IST
In Arab world's first, UAE successfully launches its spacecraft 'Al Amal' towards MarsAl Amal, or Hope Probe, weighing 1.3 tonnes was launched from the H-2A rocket from Japan's remote Tanegashima spaceport at 1.58 am local ti...
20 Jul, 2020, 12.27 PM IST
9-year-old among 1 lakh Indians who ‘took off’ for MarsPratik was among one of the thousands to be included in response to a global call to submit names for the Mars mission.
06 May, 2018, 07.21 PM IST
India, France holding discussions for inter-planetary missions to Mars, VenusISRO and French National Space Agency had agreed to work together on autonomous navigation of rovers on Moon, Mars and other planets.
15 Apr, 2018, 09.58 PM IST
- NASA's first mission to Sun renamed Parker Solar Probe
Washington, May 31 (IANS) NASA on Wednesday announced that it has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft - humanity's first mission to a s...
01 Jun, 2017, 12.00 AM IST
When Kalam had to leave Bengaluru a day before Mangalyaan launch!India scripted space history that day by successfully placing its low-cost Mars spacecraft Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) in orbit around the r...
08 Dec, 2016, 12.02 PM IST
China hopes its Mars probe start at 'higher level' than IndiaChina plans to launch its first Mars probe by 2020 and scientists hope that the comprehensive mission will start at a "higher level" than I...
21 Mar, 2016, 07.14 PM IST
Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft sends pictures of dust storm activitiesMOM aims to study the Martian surface and mineral composition and scan its atmosphere for methane, an indicator of life.
29 Sep, 2014, 10.16 PM IST
ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission: Our mangal sutra, and yes, it is rocket science!If the Indian probe can pin down methane again, it makes the case for organic life existing on Mars that much more likely.
25 Sep, 2014, 11.01 AM IST
ET recommendations: Book, app and gameWhile Barack Obama is largely treated with a velvet glove, vice-president Joseph Biden and senate majority leader Harry Reid are not afford...
22 Sep, 2014, 01.02 PM IST
China ready for space cooperation with IndiaThe probe Chang'e-3 was launched into orbit last night aboard an enhanced 56.4 meter high Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Sat...
02 Dec, 2013, 01.09 PM IST
- What will happen if even UFOs now prefer to look east?
It also raises the possibility that China’s obvious ascendance on this planet has not gone unnoticed even in the furthest corners of the un...
08 Nov, 2012, 04.27 AM IST
Rock of AgesIn 1990, the renowned astronomer Carl Sagan asked Nasa for a favour. At the time, the interplanetary probe Voyager I, which had been launch...
02 Sep, 2011, 06.34 AM IST