Space

  Kourou.  At 14:00 UTC today, JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spread its wings following the Ariane 5 successful lift-off two hours earlier. The ESA spacecraft operations team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)...

Tel Aviv: Israel is now receiving a steady flow of radar images from the payload of its newest spy satellite the Ofek 13. About two weeks after the satellite’s successful launch into space, the DDR&D’s...

  India is making a strong entry into the profitable space industry by leveraging the geopolitical isolation of China and Russia. It aims at positioning itself as a dependable alternative to SpaceX - founded in...

  DENVER and CANBERRA, Australia.  Lockheed Martin welcomes today's announcement that it has been selected by the Commonwealth of Australia as the preferred bidder for Project JP9102, the Australian Defence Satellite Communications System. The multi-billion dollar JP9102 project will...

Mumbai. Godrej Aerospace, a business unit of Godrej & Boyce, the flagship company of the Godrej Group, has contributed to the LVM3 (Launch Vehicle Mark III), ISRO’s heaviest launcher till date. For this mission, the L110 engine for the...

Washington: The US Space Force said it needs nearly $16 billion over five years to keep building a new class of satellites that can track missiles moving at hypersonic speeds, more than twice the...

  Toulouse.  As part of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit today, Airbus Defence and Space has announced an agreement for Angeo-1, the first very high performance Angolan Earth observation satellite, to be manufactured by Airbus...

  In the morning hours of February 10, 2023, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) once again made the country proud and added another feather to its cap. ISRO did a successful launch of the Small...

  New Delhi: US space agency NASA’s designed and much vaunted ambitious experimental, potentially revolutionary all-electric airplane is set to take off soon on its first test flight marking a major milestone for battery-powered aviation,...

Washington: A group of engineers at NASA funded by DARPA, the R and D wing of the US Department of Defence are working on an engine rocket that works without fuel and is 99...

Washington: US space agency NASA will fund the development of an experimental nuclear thermal engine under a new cooperative effort with the Pentagon’s far-future research agency to test the technology’s viability for powering spacecraft...

New Delhi: India has 111 payloads and 105 space debris objects orbiting the earth as tracked and catalogued by USSPACECOM, Parliament was told. In a written reply, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said all orbiting debris...

Munich/Marignane. Airbus has launched two defence research and development projects that it is coordinating as part of the 2021 European Defence Fund (EDF). In July 2022, the European Commission selected, among others, eight collaborative...