THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Inter-planetary exploration, global warming, the predicted boom in the Indian aerospace sector and the relentless search for dark energy were some of the topics that dominated the Space Summit organised on the second day of the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Monday.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Plans to put two Indians in space by 2015 require cutting edge technologies such as building a robust and reliable launch vehicle, a livable crew capsule, providing life support systems for the astronauts and

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has embarked on a programme to induct semi-cryogenic engines, which will use kerosene as fuel, and this engine will form the booster for its future launch vehicles, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan said on Sunday.

Tiruchi: The launch of India

Stressing the need for finding solutions to major challenges the country faces in the

Bangalore: Isro

BHUBANESWAR: Is desertification process in Orissa already on? The answer appears to be yes if one goes by the latest report of Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad that has bracketed Orissa among top five States facing

COPENHAGEN WAS going to be the big opportunity to sign on to a better environmental world order. Instead, the road to it has been marked with zero-visibility smog impairing collective human vision.

Retreat Faster Than Observed Earlier
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Bangalore: As big global players play the game of negotiations, and as the opposition wakes up to the implications of India

India's space agency has in its pipeline eight foreign satellites for launch and is scouting to acquire such spacecraft from abroad to expand capacity in the field of communication transponder back home.