Space

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...

Toulouse. The second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived on board an Airbus Beluga at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ready for its launch in February. The second satellite of the...

Bengaluru: Terming space as the fourth dimension of warfare, Satheesh Reddy, scientific advisor to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has said that a lot of military-related and defence-related activities have already started in the...

Washington:  Even as US led the world in the total number of space launches in 2022 with China coming in second, a new report calls China the winner for the most defence-related payloads. “China is...

Bengaluru: American Tech giant Microsoft is all set to fuel space tech start-ups in India and has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). At the future-ready technology summit...

Tel Aviv: Another Israel spy satellite will cover Iran and other areas of interest for Israel. Eros –C3 spy satellite manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) was launched on December 30, 2022, using a...

Colorado Springs (US): In a major step towards having a new service, US Space Force has taken over all charge of the Department of Defence's military satellite communication functions. The Navy and the Army have...

New Delhi: India’s space industry achieved a number of key milestones in 2022 which included  the first trial launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), two rounds of...

Toulouse. Airbus has successfully achieved the System Critical Design Review (CDR) on the EGNOS V3 satellite-based augmentation system. The EGNOS V3 (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) is designed to add key security features for...

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) recently conducted the maiden blow-down test of their all-new wind tunnel, installed at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. It said that this tunnel is a system...