In a monumental step for India’s space program, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will pilot the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025. The Ax-4 mission is the result of a bilateral agreement between India and the US. Over a year ago, ...

The union cabinet chaired by the Honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the building of the first unit of the Bharatiya Anatriksh Station (BAS) by extending the scope of Gaganyaan program. What is it? ISRO is working to set up Bharatiya Antariksh Station, India’s own space ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for a landmark mission that aims to land a rover and helicopter on Mars. This historic endeavor, named Mangalyaan-2, seeks to place India alongside the US and China as a significant player in interplanetary exploration. The project was ...

Chinese scientists have proposed a project to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside our solar system through a space telescope. This is will be the world’s first space mission specially designed to search for habitable planets in the universe.  The proposed project will involve ...

The NASA team successfully completed the deployment of 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror panel of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on January 08, 2022. James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed its sunshield — a critical feature the observatory ...

China launches a new camera satellite with 5m resolution – China launches a new satellite called “Ziyuan-1 02E” or “Five Meter 02 Optical Satellite” with a camera. The satellite’s camera has the capability to take photos of the ground with a resolution of five meters, according to ...

NASA’s $10 billion telescopes James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope developed by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). The revolutionary world’s first-of-its-kind ...

A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California early on December 18. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from coastal Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:41 a.m. and arced over the Pacific. The Falcon’s first stage returned and landed on a SpaceX ...

NASA has announced that the Parker Solar Probe has flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere, the corona, for the first time. While there, the probe sampled particles and magnetic fields and captured historic, close-up photos of coronal streamers. In 2018, launched the Parker ...

The satellites, Shijian-6 05, were launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 8:11 a.m. (Beijing Time) and have entered their planned orbit. China stated the satellites will be used for ‘space exploration and new technology tests.’ The launch marked the 400th mission of Long ...