Chennai: The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLVD3, the first Indian rocket to be powered by a totally indigenous cryogenic engine, will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota at 4.27pm on Thursday. The 416-tonne vehicle will carry GSAT-4, a 2,218-kg communication satellite, to be put in an orbit 36,000km from earth. The countdown for the launch began at 11.27am.
A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict.
London: The technology Nasa has used on Mars to find underground ice can be replicated to search hidden water sources in deserts on Earth, scientists at the US space agency have said, claiming this could also help prevent the world from conflicts over war.
WASHINGTON: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say that the water on the Moon comes in three different flavors.
This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series of water discoveries on the lunar surface.
Scramjet-Rocket Combo Is Set To Revolutionize The Way Payloads Are Launched
Washington: In what could lower the cost of reaching space, aerospace scientists claim to be developing a hypersonic aircraft by using superfast air-breathing engines called scramjets.
New analysis of scientific data from a NASA instrument aboard the 2008 Indian moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the lunar north pole, reviving hopes for colonization of the moon by humans in future.
Latest images of Saturn's icy moon "Enceladus" showing jets of liquid and gas coming out from prominent fractures on the satellite's south polar region have left Nasa scientists astounded.
