ISRO’s first mission of 2020 launched on Friday from French Guiana

GSAT-30 is configured on Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) enhanced I-3K Bus structure to provide communication services from Geostationary orbit in C and Ku bands.

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ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 another step closer to Moon, enters lunar transfer trajectory

Chandrayaan-2 will now approach the Moon on August 20 and finally land near the south pole of the moon on September 7.

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Got $50 million for a vacation? NASA to open International Space Station to tourists from 2020

NASA will allow up to two private trips to the station per year, each lasting up to 30 days, NASA said. 

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Delhi government to plant 23 lakh trees this year

The direction was issued by Environment and Forests Minister Imran Hussain at a meeting organised to set plantation targets for 2019. Of the total, the Delhi Development Authority will plant 2 lakh trees and the Delhi Forest Department 4.30 lakh trees.

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IAF ties up with ISRO for manned mission crew selection

The Rs 9,023-crore ambitious project involves sending a 3-member crew on board a heavy rocket to an altitude of 350-400 km and orbit around the planet for conducting experiments in space during a week-long voyage.

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Developing nations need focus on water research: UN

Two new papers from the university's Canada-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health on Wednesday called for reducing this 'alarming' imbalance between resources and need, which impedes the search for solutions to crucial water challenges.  

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Oldest meteorite collection on Earth discovered in Chile

Scientists say they have uncovered the oldest meteorite collection on Earth's surface in Chile's Atacama Desert, allowing them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years.

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ISRO PSLV-C46 launches RISAT-2B: All you need to know about the advanced earth observation satellite

RISAT-2B weighs 615 kg and has a mission life of five years.

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ISRO launches PSLV-C46 carrying earth observation satellite RISAT-2B into space

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) PSLV-C46 carrying earth observation satellite RISAT-2B lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Wednesday.

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NASA selects 11 US firms, including Jeff Bezos` Blue Origin, Elon Musk`s SpaceX, to build human lunar landers

The US space agency NASA has selected 11 companies including Jeff Bezos` Blue Origin, Elon Musk`s SpaceX to develop prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration programme.

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ISRO planning 7 interplanetary missions, including a solar probe, within a decade: Chairman Dr K Sivan

The missions include a probe to study Sun's corona, Venus, Mars Orbiter 2 and Chandrayaan 3.

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Google doodle celebrates Omar Khayyam’s 971st birthday

Google celebrated the 971st birthday of renowned Persian mathematician, philosopher, poet and astronomer Omar Khayyam with a doodle on Saturday.

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Trash found littering Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench floor in deepest-ever submarine dive

Plastic waste has reached epidemic proportions in the world`s oceans with an estimated 100 million tonnes dumped there to date, according to the UN.

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ISRO gives a sneak peek into Chandrayaan-2 as it preps for July launch

This comes 10 years after the space agency launched its first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 in 2009.

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NASA's DART spacecraft to collide with small moonlet for historic planetary defence test in 2022

The US space agency NASA revealed on Monday details about its plan to hit a small moonlet target in a double asteroid system with a spacecraft in 2022, its first mission to demonstrate a planetary defence technique.

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ISRO moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to scan lunar surface, look for specific minerals

Chandrayaan-2 comes 10 years after ISRO launched its first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, in 2009.

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Marsquake! NASA`s InSight detects first-ever seismological tremor on another planet

The breakthrough came nearly five months after InSight, the first spacecraft designed specifically to study the deep interior of a distant world, touched down on the surface of Mars to begin its two-year seismological mission on the red planet.  

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SpaceX suffers capsule anomaly during Florida tests

"The initial tests completed successfully but the final test resulted in an anomaly on the test stand," the company said in a statement.

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Universe's first molecule detected in space

Helium hydride ion (HeH+) was the first molecule that formed when, almost 14 billion years ago, falling temperatures in the young universe allowed recombination of the light elements produced in the Big Bang.

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Scientists detect universe's first molecule formed 14 billion years ago

Helium hydride ion (HeH+) was the first molecule that formed when, almost 14 billion years ago, falling temperatures in the young universe allowed recombination of the light elements produced in the Big Bang.

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