SCIENCE

The PSLV Orbital Experiment Module will carry 24 experiments, 14 from various Isro labs and 10 from private universities and start-ups, to demonstrate various technologies in space.

India's space program advances as the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) prepares to launch 24 cutting-edge scientific experiments aboard PSLV Orbital Experiment Module-4 (POEM-4).

Isro is set to launch the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, aiming to demonstrate autonomous docking between two spacecraft, a critical technology for future space endeavours.

American space agency Nasa and the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) are set to launch the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) satellite in March 2025. 

Isro has partnered with Axiom Space, an American company specialising in human spaceflight, for the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission, which is a significant collaboration between India and the US.

An Indian astronaut, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, will undergo training at the European Space Agency (ESA). Shukla is part of the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission, which will spend up to 14 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), conducting scientific research and experiments in microgravity.

Technical complications, including thruster malfunctions and helium leaks, forced Nasa to return the Starliner uncrewed in September, leaving astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded on the ISS.

ispace's last attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon did not go well as the Hakuto-R M1 lander with UAE's Rashid rover crashed on the lunar surface in April 2023.

The first crew of the SubSea project returned to shore after completing a rigorous 60-day underwater expedition.

Japan's Space One announced that the mission could not be completed successfully, prompting an immediate halt to the flight.

The mission, scheduled for 2025, will be the first uncrewed flight under the ambitious Gaganyaan human spaceflight program.

India follows a single time zone called Indian Standard Time (IST), which is set at GMT+5:30.

The outage was triggered by a leak in a cooling system at SpaceX's Hawthorne facility, causing a power surge that disabled mission control's ability to communicate with its Dragon spacecraft in orbit.

These findings deepen our understanding of blood vessel development and could pave the way for new therapeutic strategies.

The Gaganyaan mission, which aims to send Indian astronauts into space, represents a landmark achievement for the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).

This funding will facilitate the creation of the launch vehicle that meets diverse mission requirements while reducing lead times for satellite launches to just two weeks.

InSight landed on Mars in November 2018 and was instrumental in detecting marsquakes, providing valuable insights into the planet's crust, mantle, and core.

The victims were discovered in a sleeping area above the Haveli restaurant, located within Gudauri, the largest and highest ski resort in the Caucasus Mountains.

Rather than having a heavily weathered surface typical of a planet without an atmosphere, TRAPPIST-1 b's crust could be geologically active.

The Ax-4 mission is a significant collaboration between India and the United States, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the US last year.