In News National Telecommunications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT) conducts a webinar on “NavIC — Opportunities for the Telecom Industry“. About The webinar is conducted by NTIPRIT in collaboration with ISRO and the telecom industry. It highlighted the importance and relevance of NavIC technology and making NavIC available on L-1 band in […]
In News Four astronauts were launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida as part of a collaboration between NASA and SpaceX under the Commercial Crew Program. Previous Missions Demo-2 test flight lifted In May 2020, NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight lifted off for the ISS carrying astronauts. The aim of this test flight […]
In News NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully created oxygen from the thin atmospheric carbon dioxide present on Mars for the first time. Perseverance landed on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021 on a mission to search for signs of microbial life. About In its first run, Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — or […]
In News Russia’s space agency hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 . Russia recently celebrated its proud history in space, marking the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin for becoming the first human to go into orbit. Probable Reasons for Announcement The announcement came with tensions soaring with the West. Relations between Russia […]
In News Recently, researchers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital and the Royal Observatory of Belgium have developed CMEs Identification in Inner Solar Corona (CIISCO). ARIES is an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST). About CIISCO It is an algorithm that will detect and track the accelerating […]
In News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are collaborating on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) Satellite. About the Satellite […]
In News For the first time, ISRO demonstrated free-space quantum communication over a distance of 300 metres. About The free-space communication using QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) was demonstrated at Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad, Gujarat. QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) is the technology behind Quantum Communication Technology. It is a major milestone achievement for unconditionally secured […]