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Another camera outside the ISS, nicknamed "Old Yeller" because of its yellow hues, is set to be replaced on the next spacewalk October 18.

US spacewalkers install 'new eyes' at space station

The previous camera had aged, and was tinting images pink.

11 Oct 2017 9:23 AM

When one looks up at the Moon, dark surfaces of volcanic basalt can be easily seen to fill large impact basins. Those seas of basalt, known as maria, erupted while the interior of the Moon was still hot and generating magmatic plumes that sometimes breached the lunar surface and flowed for hundreds of kilometers.

Moon once had an atmosphere: NASA study

A NASA study has found that the Moon had an atmosphere about three to four billion years ago.

06 Oct 2017 12:51 PM

The EOS Space Systems Satellite Laser Ranging Facility tracks space debris at Mount Stromlo near Canberra. (Photo: AFP)

Australia to create national space agency

Australia has committed to creating a national space agency as it looks to cash in on the lucrative and fast-evolving astronautical sector.

26 Sep 2017 8:56 AM

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket prepared for a launch to the International Space Station in February 2017 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite

The satellite is designed to operate for five years, and will orbit the Earth once every 100 minutes.

25 Aug 2017 7:31 AM

The H-IIA rocket blasts off from the Tanegashima space centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Japan launches satellite for better GPS system

The launch was initially scheduled last week but was postponed due to a technical glitch.

19 Aug 2017 3:33 PM

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M aboard, in a NASA handout photo obtained on August 18, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

NASA launches satellite to help astronauts communicate with Earth

The satellite will "support critical space communication into the mid-2020s," NASA said in a statement.

19 Aug 2017 8:02 AM

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and Sergey Ryazanskiy are pictured in the Orlan spacesuits they are wearing during today’s spacewalk. Credit: @SergeyISS

Cosmonauts release 3D-printed satellite into space

The exterior casing of the first one tossed overboard was made with a 3-D printer.

18 Aug 2017 10:02 AM

A Russian Soyuz 2-1A rocket -- like the one seen in this file photo taken on April 28, 2016 -- launched 73 satellites into orbit on Friday

Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit

According to Russian news agencies, Glavcosmos, charged with putting the satellites into orbit.

15 Jul 2017 8:00 AM

‘Micius’ is described to be a highly sensitive photo receiver that is equipped with the ability to detect quantum states of single photons launched from the ground. (Representational image)

Chinese researchers teleport object to orbit for the first time

The object-in-question is a photon, which travelled from Gobi desert to a satellite called ‘Micius’ orbiting 500 kilometres in total.

12 Jul 2017 10:02 AM

The same rocket type had been expected to take China's latest lunar probe to the Moon this year and to return with samples. (representational image)

China's new heavy-lift rocket launch fails in flight

China's launch of a new heavy-lift rocket, carrying what the government said was its heaviest ever satellite, failed on Sunday.

03 Jul 2017 7:59 AM

ISRO's PSLV-C38 at the first launch pad in Sriharikota on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

ISRO’s PSLV-C38 launch: India’s sixth 'eye in the sky' blasts off with 30 nano satellites

In it’s 40th flight, the PSLV rocket, will carry the 712kg Cartosat-2 series satellite and co-passenger satellites together weighing 243kg.

23 Jun 2017 10:19 AM

Eighteen Galileo satellites have been placed in Earth's orbit to date, with four more due for launch later this year. (Photo: AFP)

New orbiters for Europe's Galileo satnav system

The European Commission expects Galileo to be fully operational by 2020.

23 Jun 2017 8:02 AM

State-run BSNL is planning to extend satellite phone services for all citizens in two years that can work at any corner of the country and remain immune to breakdown of mobile services during natural calamities.

BSNL satellite phone service will be available for all in two years

Call rates on satellite phones are expected to be in the range of Rs 30-35 in the first phase.

29 May 2017 8:57 AM

India’s largest rocket ever made, to be tested in June

The rocket made by ISRO rocket, is 200 full-grown Asian elephants put together heavy and is going to be tested in the first week of June

28 May 2017 4:55 PM

BSNL launches satellite phone service for areas with no network

The service will cover areas where no networks are present and be provided by INMARSAT which has 14 satellites.

25 May 2017 8:49 AM

But many experts doubt that the X-37 B is the prototype for a true weapon of war or espionage. The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. (Photo: AP)

After 2-year secret space mission, US military drone returns to Earth

Since its first flight in 2010, it has sparked all kinds of speculation about its real purpose.

10 May 2017 8:49 AM

Satellite launch to cement India's ties with neighbours: Pranab Mukherjee

He also congratulated ISRO on the successful launch of the South Asia satellite-GSAT-09.

05 May 2017 8:41 PM

Initially named SAARC Satellite, the satellite was renamed ‘South Asia Satellite’ after Pakistan refused to join project.

PM's gift satellite to SAARC buddies to take off today

The new South Asia Satellite will catalyze economic development and governance in six Saarc nations

05 May 2017 9:33 AM

SpaceX regularly launches unmanned cargo ships to the International Space Station, and is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX makes first US military launch, then lands rocket again

SpaceX also has a pair of launch contracts coming up for the Air Force to send GPS satellites into orbit.

02 May 2017 8:26 AM

Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX has for years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings on solid ground and in the water

SpaceX launches its first recycled rocket in historic leap

If SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system proves reusable, it could slash space launch costs by 30 per cent

31 Mar 2017 8:09 AM

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