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Roving Periscope: Amid severe reverses, Putin tries to revive Russia war in Ukraine with NoKo’s help

September 13, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the 18-month-long invasion of Ukraine remaining indecisive, the aggressor’s economy and weaponry depleting faster than it ever did even in Afghanistan and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping fighting his own demons at home and overseas, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to revive the conflict with help from the […]

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ISRO launched two Singaporean satellites into space on PSLV-C55

April 22, 2023 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi, April 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the two Singapur-made satellites on the Indian-made space module PSLV-C55 on Saturday. The mission launched from the SDSC-SHAR Sriharikota in Indian standard time at 14:19 hours. The satellite is launched under the contract of the new Space India Limited, the commercial arm of the Indian […]

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ISRO prepares GSLV Rocket for OneWeb Satellite Launch

October 6, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is preparing its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk III (GSLV MkIII) for launching 36 satellites of OneWeb in the month of October 2022. According to ISRO, two solid fuel fired booster motors are strapped on the liquid fuel powered second stage at the second launch pad at […]

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket crashes minutes after lift-off

September 13, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashed minutes after lifting off from West Texas. The Jeff Bezos-owned space travel company was carrying payloads before crashing on the earth’s surface. The first launch accident resulted in the rocket breaking apart as the capsule carrying experiments floated safely back to earth through a parachute. The rocket […]

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Astronomers capture the black hole that lies at the centre of Milky Way Galaxy

May 13, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Astronomers captured the super massive black hole or SMBH that lay at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time. The first direct observation confirmed the presence of the black hole called Sagittarius A in the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Though black holes don’t emit light of their […]

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Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn align in a straight line after 1000 years

April 27, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: A rare astronomical event took place in the last week of April where four planets, namely Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, will align in a straight line in the eastern sky for nearly an hour before sunrise. The deputy director of Pathani Samanta Planetarium, Bhubaneswar, Subhendu Pattnaik, said, “During the last week of […]

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CHACE-2 observes distribution of Argon gas on the Moon’s Exosphere

March 8, 2022 Vinayak Barot

Bengaluru: According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a quadrupole mass spectrometer onboard Chandrayaan-2 mission called Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) made observations regarding the global distribution of Argon-40 on the Moon’s exosphere. An exosphere is an outermost region in the upper atmosphere of a celestial body. The natural satellite of Earth consists of […]

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National Science Day 2022 – History, Theme, and Significance

February 28, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Chandrasekhara Venkata (CV) Raman, an Indian physicist, made a key discovery in the science of spectroscopy on this day in 1928, which was eventually named after him – the Raman Effect. CV Raman was given the coveted Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his efforts. The Raman Effect The Raman Effect, which […]

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ISRO Successfully Launches PSLV-C52 EOS-4

February 14, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-4) from Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C52) on Monday, February 14, 2022. ISRO Chief S Somnath said after the launch, “The mission of PSLV-C52 has been successfully completed.” The satellite launched at 05:59 am from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, […]

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A Solar Eruption expected to hit Earth, trigger Geomagnetic Storm on February 09

February 9, 2022 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: A fresh solar eruption is expected to hit the earth on Wednesday, February 09, and Thursday, February 10, 2022. However, scientists claim that the impact is unlikely to be very hazardous. The Centre of Excellence in Space Sciences (CESS) tweeted, “A filament of the solar eruption was observed on the south of disk […]