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UK govt powers up Rolls-Royce's plan to build N-reactor on moon

The UKSA said it wanted to establish a new power source to support systems for communications, life-support and scientific experiments on the Moon

NASA-SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts dock safely at ISS after hour-long delay

NASA-SpaceX's Crew-6 astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, after a 26-hour journey

Space telescope finds massive galaxies formed within 600 mn yrs of Big Bang

Astronomers have discovered what appear to be massive galaxies dating back to within 600 million years of the Big Bang, suggesting the early universe may have had a stellar fast-track that produced these monsters. While the new James Webb Space Telescope has spotted even older galaxies, dating to within a mere 300 million years of the beginning of the universe, it's the size and maturity of these six apparent mega-galaxies that stun scientists. They reported their findings Wednesday. Lead researcher Ivo Labbe of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology and his team expected to find little baby galaxies this close to the dawn of the universe not these whoppers. While most galaxies in this era are still small and only gradually growing larger over time, he said in an email, there are a few monsters that fast-track to maturity. Why this is the case or how this would work is unknown. Each of the six objects looks to weigh billions of times more than our sun. In one of them, the

3,500 students participate in India's first hybrid sounding rocket

Martin Foundation in association with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation and Space Zone India successfully completed the project known as Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission 2

ISRO conducts initial trials of human space mission crew module recovery

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Navy carried out initial recovery trials of the crew module as a part of the former's human space mission tests

Global space economy to reach $1 trn in coming years: Ex-Isro chief

Former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) A S Kiran Kumar on Tuesday said the global space economy would reach USD 1 trillion-mark in the coming years which would provide a huge opportunity for the country's youth. Kumar was speaking at the third convocation of Karnavati University at its campus in Uvarsad village of Gandhinagar district as the Guest of Honour. "Space economy, expected to grow to USD one trillion in coming years, is beckoning India to build on its current technological capability and become a significant player and benefit in the process," the former ISRO chief said. India is transforming itself from a space-capable country to a country with space technology capacity and this would bring huge opportunities for the country's youth, he said. India is one of the few countries with end-to-end capability of building rockets, satellites and payloads despite the fact that "technology and its access were denied or restricted" to it in the early ...

Truck-sized asteroid misses Earth, passes closer than some satellites

Asteroid 2023 BU whizzed past without incident and back out into space

Three major launches in next 3 months, says ISRO chairman S Somanath

The Indian Space Research Organisation has planned three major rocket launches in the next three months, its chairman S Somanath said here on Wednesday

Richard Branson's Cosmic Girl fails to put UK into orbit; Virgin sinks 30%

For Virgin Orbit the failure represents a more material setback, with the stock plunging close to 30 per cent in after-hours US trading

The sun to moon: India's space sector is gearing up for an eventful 2023

This year will see missions to study the sun and the moon, and a raft of startups are gearing up to take India's space initiatives forward

South Korea conducts test flight of solid-fuel space vehicle successfully

South Korea on Friday successfully conducted a test flight of a solid-fuel space launch vehicle, the defence ministry said, nine months after its first test of the homegrown rocket.

IN-SPACe inks pact with deep tech startup to develop satellite QKD products

The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bangaluru-based deep tech startup QNu Labs to develop indigenous Satellite QKD (quantum key distribution) products. With this MoU, QNu Labs, with the support of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and IN-SPACe, aims to demonstrate unlimited distance Satellite QKD based quantum secure communication, according to a joint statement on Tuesday. Terrestrial QKD systems have the limitation of requirement of repeaters every 100-150 kms, which is a big hindrance in creating a large-scale Quantum Secure Network, it was noted. "With Satellite QKD capability, India holds the potential to become a world leader in creating Quantum Secure Communication Network", the statement said. "The outcome of this collaboration shall ensure that India leads the future of global quantum communication networks that will involve a combination of the quantum-satellite constellation,

K-pop star among 8 to join Japan tycoon Yusaku Maezawa's moon trip

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday that K-Pop star T.O.P. will be among the eight people who will join him on a flyby around the moon on a SpaceX spaceship next year. The Japanese tycoon launched plans for the lunar voyage in 2018, buying all the seats on the spaceship. He began taking applications from around the world in March 2021 for what will be his second space journey after his 12-day trip to the International Space Station on the Soyuz Russian spaceship last year. The eight people Maezawa selected for his dearMoon project are T.O.P., who debuted as a lead rapper for the K-Pop group Big Bang; American DJ Steve Aoki; filmmaker Brendan Hall and YouTuber Tim Dodd, also of the United States. The other four are British photographer Karim Illiya, Indian actor Dev Joshi, Czech artist Yemi AD and Irish photographer Rhiannon Adam. American Olympic snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington and Japanese dancer Miyu were chosen as backups. T.O.P.'s real name is Choi Seung-hyun. The ...

Bifrost now a reality, or so

If stabilised and made big enough, wormholes can be used as a viable means of space travel in the future-just as Thor does in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Chinese astronauts meet colleagues in space; makes country's first

Three Chinese astronauts aboard a spacecraft that docked with China's under-construction space station met with their colleagues on Wednesday, making it the country's first gathering of six astronauts in space. China on Tuesday successfully launched the spacecraft carrying three astronauts, Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, to its space station. The Shenzhou-15 spaceship, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday night, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The three space station occupants greeted the new three-member crew with warm hugs and then they took a group picture after the successful docking, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The space reunion kicked off the first in-orbit crew rotation in China's space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The six astronauts are scheduled to live and work together for about five days to complete planned

ISRO successfully launches 200th 'RH-200' Rohini sounding rocket

ISRO's journey into the indigenous rockets began with a sounding rocket in 1963

Vikram-S rocket launch shows what an Indian start-up can do: Skyroot exec

Company behind privately developed rocket is looking for investors, says its co-founder

And, blast-off: Skyroot launches India's first pvt sector rocket Vikram-S

'Great milestone' for Indian space sector as rocket completes parameters for successful launch

James Webb Telescope spots Cosmic hourglass; unveils beginning of new star

This view of L1527 provides a window into what our Sun and solar system looked like in their infancy

Vikram-S: All you need to know about India's first private rocket launch

The company has named the rocket Vikram-S as a tribute to the founder of India's space programme Dr Vikram Sarabhai