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The Dragon cargo craft is expetected to lift off at around 10:01 a.m. EST Saturday, February. 18, 2017.

India has come out to an important part as far as global commercial market for space-based surveillance and communication is considered.

Fieldwork subsequently showed that these arcuate striations resulted from dune sediments that had been geochemically cemented by salts left behind by evaporating groundwater. 

Throughout its investigation, Mars 2020 will collect samples of soil and rock and cache them on the surface for potential return to Earth by a future mission.

Situated 7,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, the star is so rare that it's only one of seven identified by astronomers in the Milky Way.

If this launch is too planned successfully, it will be ISRO's second big achievement in the year 2017.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the researchers found that powerful radio jets from the black hole - which normally suppress star formation - are stimulating the production of cold gas in the galaxy's extended halo of hot gas. 

In this new view of the mosaic, Daphnis is seen kicking up waves as it orbits within the Keeler gap. 

Exactly at 9:28 am, ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C37 carrying 104 satellites blasted off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. 

A closely orbiting planet, called HAT-P-2b, might be causing these vibrations each time it gets close to the star in its orbit, according to the scientists.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket blasted off from Sriharikota rocket port in Andhra Pradesh at sharp 9.28 am today.

In case you missed watching the launch of ISRO, you can still witness the historic mission here.

When the vehicle reaches the orbital condition, there will be a pause for sometime till the disturbances die down which will be followed by the preparation for separation.

Todays' mega launch has set a new world record overtaking the previous one set by Russia in 2014 when it catapulted 37 satellites in a single launch.

ISRO became the first space agency in the world to script history by launching 104 satellites on a single rocket, beating the previous record holders – Russia, which launched 37 satellites in one go in June 2014 and the US which orbited 29 satellites in November 2013.

Expedition 50 astronaut Thomas Pesquet has shared a breathtaking view of a heart shaped lake from the space station on the occasion of Valentine's Day.

Expedition 50 astronaut Thomas Pesquet has shared a clear view of the Taranaki volcano in New Zealand from the space station.

According to ISRO, the mission is scheduled to lift off at 9.28 hours IST from SDSC SHAR Sriharikota, on Wednesday, February 15, 2017.

Though only four of them -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- have remote-sensing satellites in the sun-synchronous orbit, they will give data to South Africa (SA) as it does not have a satellite of its own.

The launch of Tianzhou-1 will be a crucial step for China in building a space station by 2020, as cargo spacecraft are required to ship necessities to astronauts aboard the station.

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula.

The space first-timer has been treating his followers on a daily basis with some of the most breathtaking photographs, ever since he joined the ISS crew in November, 2016.

 After much debate and discussion, the participants in a landing site workshop for the 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.

The second mission to Mars is planned for in 2021-2022 timeframe and as per existing plans it may well involve putting a robot on the surface of the Red Planet.

The US space agency has released a beautiful image of galaxy known as NGC 7640.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who is currently aboard th International Space Station (ISS) has been showering us with the beautiful image of the Earth.

The spacecraft is designed to automatically transition to safe mode under certain anomalous conditions to protect itself from harm. 

They can spot comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope.

The first 'penumbral lunar eclipse would began at 4:02:02 AM and continued till 8:25:05 AM on February 11 and was visible in India too.

The intensity of moon's brightness would lessen and it would become hazy during the eclipse.