National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Cape Canaveral, Florida: NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams became the first people to launch to orbit inside a Boeing Starliner, lifting off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:52am ET and...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables satellites to send radar signals to the ground and analyse the echoes that come back. This technology can see through clouds, making it a powerful tool for observing the...

New Delhi: In a first of its kind, leading private sector company, Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL), a subsidiary of Tata Sons, successfully launched the country's first-ever military-grade geospatial satellite built entirely by the...

Friedrichshafen. Airbus has been awarded a contract to design and build the GRACE-C twin spacecraft by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL (Pasadena, California). This new mission of NASA and the German Space Agency...

What is Rocket Science?: Rocket science involves utilising rocket propulsion to transport anything from fireworks to crewed spacecraft. The core principle of rocketry is based on Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion, which has been...

Madrid. Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with prime contractor Ball Aerospace to supply communications equipment for NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission. The main goal...

Washington: The United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket successfully completed its debut launch, continuing the vehicle’s path toward certification to fly national security missions later this year. The rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force...

EVENDALE, Ohio: GE Aerospace reached a new milestone for a more sustainable future of flight with the completion of testing on its 10th engine model using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) since 2016, confirming the...

New Delhi: NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is set to be launched in first quarter of 2024 after some preliminary tests, particularly those related to vibration, NSA officials said. “ISRO is projecting the first quarter...

New Delhi: If in the first 50 years of its journey, ISRO focussed on tapping space technology for societal benefits through satellite-based missions, with the Chandrayaan-3, ISRO has signalled strongly that in the coming...

EVERETT, Wash.: In a collaboration to strengthen sustainability in aviation, Boeing is partnering with NASA and United Airlines for in-flight testing to measure how sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) affects contrails and non-carbon emissions, in addition...

  The close interaction between President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the sidelines of the recently concluded G20 Summit has leveraged the United States and India as each other’s closest...

New Delhi: To fight global warming, scientists believe that with the reduction of contrails—condensation trails—of ice crystals that form artificial clouds around particles in the planes’ exhaust and are left behind by airliners, global...