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Uganda to launch first satellite in September
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kampala [Uganda], June 15 (ANI/Xinhua): Uganda will launch its first-ever satellite into the low Earth orbit from the International Space Station this September, a senior official said.
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Cabinet approves transfer of in-orbit communication satellites to NSIL for
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): To ease the business in the Space sector, Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the transfer of 10 in-orbit communication satellites from the Government of India (Gol) to M/S NewSpace India Limited (NSIL).
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Ambee joins NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) missio
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], June 6 (ANI/PRNewswire): Datair Technology Pvt Ltd (Ambee), a global platform for hyperlocal and geospatial datasets on air quality, weather, pollen, soil, water vapor, fire, and more, has joined NASA's PACE Mission as an early adopter. PACE elongates to the Pl
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Moon's orbit proposed as gravitational wave detector: Research
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], March 19 (ANI): A new research has proposed using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimetre, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect.
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China's demonstration of physically moving disabled satellite into graveya
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 24 (ANI): Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari Thursday said that China's latest demonstration of physically moving one of its disabled satellites into the graveyard orbit is bringing new threats in the space domain.
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NASA-ESA's solar orbiter captures largest 'solar prominence eruption' ever
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], February 22 (ANI): The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint project of the American National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full
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Researchers observe planetary bodies for first time in habitable zone of d
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [England], February 12 (ANI): White dwarfs are glowing embers of stars that have burned through all their hydrogen fuel. Nearly all stars, including the Sun, will eventually become white dwarfs, but very little is known about their planetary systems. A new study revealed the discovery
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Astronomers detect new planet around closest star to our solar system
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Santiago [Chile], February 11 (ANI): Astronomers have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System.
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Geomagnetic storm destroys 40 Starlink satellites, SpaceX says no risk to
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
California [US], February 10 (ANI): A geomagnetic storm has knocked 40 SpaceX satellites on February 4, after they were launched to a low deployment orbit, 130 miles above Earth.
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Studies find when puffy planets lose atmospheres, they become super-Earths
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Hawaii [US], February 4 (ANI): Mini-Neptunes are a class of exoplanets, which are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. These worlds, which are smaller, denser versions of the planet Neptune, consist of large rocky cores surrounded by thick blankets of gas. Studies have identifi
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Earth has not one, but two Trojan asteroids now, reveals recent study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Barcelona [Spain], February 2 (ANI): Trojan asteroid, also called Trojan planet, is any one of a number of asteroids that occupy a stable Lagrangian point in a planet's orbit around the Sun. Recent research by astronomers has discovered the second Earth Trojan asteroid, almost a decade after
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Newly-discovered planets on the edge of destruction: Study
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York City (New York) [US], January 21 (ANI): According to a new research, three newly-discovered planets were found to have been orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the end of their lives.
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