Space

  The enigma of beyond has been a fundamental pursuit of thinkers since the earliest forays into philosophy. As early as the 2nd millennium BC, Vedic scholars imparted knowledge on the cyclic nature of the...

Washington. Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc., has been contracted to provide 42 satellite platforms as well as assembly, integration, and test (AIT), launch, and space vehicle commissioning support services to Northrop Grumman to...

Friedrichshafen. Airbus has finished the third instrument for the Sentinel-1 satellite series. It features a world premiere of a new separation mechanism which will help avoid space debris. The C-band radar for the Copernicus...

  Toulouse. The Airbus built MEASAT-3d telecommunications satellite is in Kourou, French Guiana and is ready for its launch on an Ariane 5 on 22 June 2022. MEASAT-3d is the 57th E3000 satellite built by Airbus...

New Delhi: In a significant boost to India’s military capabilities, the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-4 was successfully tested on June 6 from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. The defence ministry in a...

New Delhi: In a significant boost to India’s military capabilities, the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Agni-4 was successfully tested on June 6 from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. The defence ministry in a...

  Friedrichshafen. The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimetry mission CRISTAL is clearly on track. Following an intensive review process the European Space Agency ESA has confirmed that the preliminary design of the satellite meets...

  Friedrichshafen. Airbus has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), one of the most ambitious science missions ESA has planned...

Toulouse. The last two satellites of the Airbus-built, owned and operated Pléiades Neo constellation are on track for launch later this year, following successful final tests in Toulouse’s clean rooms. Following the seamless parallel integration...

London: With their ability to operate simultaneously across the L and S-bands, Wideband fiber optic links from ViaLite are to be used in the backhaul network for the US Space Force’s new satellite mesh network. The Force’s initial Tranche 0...

  While the militarisation of space is being led by the Big Three – US, China and Russia, most nations are developing military space-based capabilities for support to operations on ground. In the context of...

Baltimore. NIRSpec (Near Infrared Spectrograph), a key instrument on Webb (the James Webb Space Telescope) has successfully passed all its functional tests including subsystems and mechanisms and is one step nearer to delivering its...

  The Indian space sector is undergoing a “space industry renaissance” and it has been predicted that academia, research, and industry will converge to accelerate technological development. Both international and domestic space requirements have exponentially...