Aiming to set up a space station in near future, China has began erecting its fourth rocket launching centre on the Hainan island in the southern part of the country. The Hainan Space Launch Centre would come up near the Wenchang city in the north-east coast of the island and would be operational by 2013, official Xinhua news agency reported.
Jupiter snared a passing comet in the middle of the last century, eventually releasing it 12 years later, astronomers reported on Monday. Data presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, near Berlin, showed that the biggest planet of the Solar System gained a temporary satellite, a comet called 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu, between 1949 and 1961.
CHANDRAYAAN-I may have met a premature death, but its mission remains more or less accomplished. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has said that the termination of Chandrayaan-1 last week after losing radio contact with earth will not impact the retrieval of scientific data it has carried out in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).
This rare celestial treat comes once in 15 yrs
New Delhi, September 6
Saturn, the lord of rings, is without its rings! Shocked! Don't be, as the rings have not gone anywhere. They have just become invisible to us due to a rare celestial phenomenon.
China said on Friday that it would provide financial assistance to Pakistan for launching its first satellite and a memorandum of understanding in this connection would be signed next week.
