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NASA successfully tests `saucer shaped` vehicle for future Mars missions

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 18:49

NASA has recently tested an effective saucer shaped vehicle technology that could be used for future Mars missions.

PSLV-C23 launch: SPOT-7 can cover areas 10 times the size of France

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 18:35

French Earth Observation Satellite SPOT-7, which has been successfully launched into orbit today, June 30, by the Indian rocket, PSLV-C23, along with four other co-passenger foreign satellites, can cover an area of 10 times the size of France.

President Pranab congratulates ISRO on successful rocket launch

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 14:11

President Pranab Mukherjee Monday congratulated ISRO on the successful launch of an Indian rocket that carried five foreign satellites. The achievement was a "significant milestone" in the progress of India`s space capabilities, he said.

Indian rocket costs less than movie `Gravity`: PM Modi

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 13:52

The cost of sending an Indian rocket to space is less than the money invested to make the Hollywood film "Gravity", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here Monday.

PSLV-C23 successfully launched; PM Narendra Modi calls for developing a SAARC satellite

Last Updated: Monday, June 30, 2014, 15:04

India`s national space agency ISRO on Monday launched five satellites from four countries from the spaceport of Sriharikota in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

ISRO`s PSLV-C23 to be launched Monday; committed to give impetus to space programme, says PM Narendra Modi

Last Updated: Sunday, June 29, 2014, 22:03

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Sriharikota for the launch of PSLC-C23 rocket, said on Sunday that his government was committed to giving further impetus to space programme.

NASA`s `flying saucer` tests new Mars-landing technology

Last Updated: Sunday, June 29, 2014, 12:16

NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky Saturday to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean.

ISRO`s PSLV-C23: PM Narendra Modi to attend launch on Monday

Last Updated: Sunday, June 29, 2014, 20:30

24-hour countdown for PSLV-C23 Mission has begun at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on Sunday. The mission began at 8:52 am yesterday with a delay of 3 minutes from the proposed time due to the high chances of space debris getting in the way of the launch vehicle.

Spanish scientists discover that some satellites were mistaken

Last Updated: Saturday, June 28, 2014, 19:15

The 2011-2012 eruption of El Hierro volcano in Spain`s Canary Islands caused such changes in the surrounding sea that it became a bank of opportunities for all kinds of scientific projects, like the one that just found flaws in the sensors of three earth observation satellites.

Countdown for ISRO`s PSLV C23 begins at Sriharikota

Last Updated: Saturday, June 28, 2014, 09:54

The 49-hour countdown for launch of ISRO`s PSLV C23 carrying a French Earth observation satellite along with four others from Singapore, Canada and Germany on June 30, commenced at the spaceport of Sriharikota on Saturday.