How wooden satellites offer clean fix for space pollution and ozone layer depletion amid 2000 annual launches till 2031?Following the re-entry of a 600kg NASA satellite in March 2026, scientific focus has shifted toward the environmental hazards of "space jun...
16 Mar, 2026, 04.52 PM IST
NASA Satellite crash alert: 1300-pound spacecraft set for fiery reentry — Date, time, and is it dangerous?NASA Satellite crash: The object identified is Van Allen Probe A, a NASA spacecraft launched in August 2012 to investigate Earth’s radiatio...
10 Mar, 2026, 04.39 PM IST
Staying invested and patient pays off for ‘Dumber’ investors against timing market: Radhika GuptaFollowing a significant market rally fueled by easing geopolitical tensions and positive economic factors, Edelweiss Mutual Fund CEO Radhik...
13 May, 2025, 11.29 AM IST
Forgotten Soviet Venus mission ends with a bang as doomed spacecraft plummets to Earth after 50 years adrift in orbitAfter 50 years, the Soviet Union's Kosmos 482 Descent Craft, intended for Venus, made an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. The...
10 May, 2025, 07.47 PM IST
Kosmos 482 falls to Earth: lost Soviet Venus probe finally comes homeKosmos 482, a Soviet probe launched in 1972, recently crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The mission to Venus failed due to a rocket malfuncti...
10 May, 2025, 04.50 PM IST
Can Kosmos 482 survive the fall to Earth and the legacy of Soviet engineeringThe Soviet-era Kosmos 482, a Venus-bound spacecraft launched in 1972, is set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere between May 9 and 13, 2025. Bui...
09 May, 2025, 06.37 PM IST
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
POEM-4 re-enters Earth's atmosphere: ISROISRO announced the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital platform Experiment Module (POEM-4) into the Earth's atmosphere, impacting the I...
05 Apr, 2025, 09.12 AM IST
PSLV-37 rocket's upper stage re-enters Earth's atmosphere right on schedule: ISROISRO confirmed the re-entry of PSLV-37's upper stage into Earth's atmosphere after launching 104 satellites in 2017. The re-entry, monitore...
08 Oct, 2024, 02.57 PM IST
ISRO's rocket body re-enters earth's atmosphere, complies with international guidelinesISRO announced that the cryogenic upper stage of the LVM3 M3/OneWeb India-2 mission has re-entered Earth's atmosphere. The stage, left in a...
18 Jun, 2024, 07.19 PM IST
Will space debris fall on the Earth and hit humans? China accused of ignoring rulesSpace Debris Expert Professor John L. Crassidis accused China of not following the rules and taking unnecessary risks with the uncontrolled...
24 Feb, 2024, 11.26 PM IST
Cartosat-2: India's storied high-res image provider signs off in style, caps 17 years of happy memories for ISROCartosat-2: ISRO had expected the satellite to take about 30 years to de-orbit naturally, it said. The agency, however, chose to lower the ...
16 Feb, 2024, 04.52 PM IST
ISRO's RISAT-2 makes uncontrolled reentry into earth's atmosphere at predicted impact pointSince its injection, RISAT-2's radar payload services were provided for various space applications. On re-entry, there were no fuel left in...
03 Nov, 2022, 10.44 PM IST
Explainer: Why all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket?The Long March 5B rocket successfully delivered its payload into orbit on April 29, in the first of 11 missions needed to complete China's ...
11 May, 2021, 12.00 PM IST
- Chinese space lab expected to re-enter on Sunday night
Paris, April 1 (IANS) The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that the Chinese defunct space lab, Tiangong-1, will re-enter Earth's atmosp...
01 Apr, 2018, 08.47 AM IST
- 192 Indian space objects currently in orbit
Chennai, Sep 8 (IANS) A total of 192 Indian objects are orbiting in space as of April 1, 2017, catalogued by US Space Surveillance Network,...
08 Sep, 2017, 03.12 PM IST
- Huge defunct satellite may fall on Earth this week: NASA
According to NASA's latest projections, the bus-size Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will likely plummet down to Earth sometime around ...
20 Sep, 2011, 04.01 PM IST