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Pranab Mukherjee lauds satellite launch- Another landmark in space programme

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 21:02

India will immensely benefit from the applications of the country`s second navigation satellite that was successfully placed into orbit Friday, said President Pranab Mukherjee.

India puts second navigation satellite IRNSS into orbit

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 20:57

India Friday moved a step closer to setting up its own satellite navigation system when in a copy-book style it successfully placed into orbit a satellite using its own rocket.

India successfully launches second navigation satellite IRNSS 1B

India successfully launches second navigation satellite IRNSS 1B

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 19:08

It`s another achievement for India. India has successfully launched its second navigational satellite IRNSS 1B on board PSLV-C24.

ISRO to launch its navigational satellite IRNSS 1B today

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:40

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is looking forward to lift-off of its IRNSS 1B satellite from Sriharikota on Friday.

Gamma ray emissions may hint at elusive dark matter

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 11:37

A new research of gamma-ray light from the center of our galaxy makes the strongest case to date that some of this emission may arise from dark matter - an unknown substance making up most of the material universe.

Mars comes closest to Earth in six and a half years

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 10:38

Researchers have revealed that this month Mars is at its closest to Earth in the past six and a half years.

Monster `El Gordo` galaxy cluster weighs 3mn bn times the mass of our sun

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 09:45

Researchers have claimed that the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, catalogued as ACT-CL J0102-4915, is 3 million billion times the mass of our sun.

Vast underground ocean found beneath ice on Saturn`s Moon Enceladus

Last Updated: Friday, April 4, 2014, 12:42

Researchers have uncovered evidence of an "ocean" of water under Enceladus, one of Saturn`s smaller moons.

Watch live telecast from moon in 2015

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 22:33

You may soon be able to watch live telecast from the moon, and closely see how it looks like from the surface that has fascinated young and old alike since ages.

Regolith of small asteroids are formed by thermal fatigue

Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 12:43

Researchers have revealed that the centimeter-sized fragments and smaller particles that make up the regolith - the layer of loose, unconsolidated rock and dust - of small asteroids is formed by temperature cycling that breaks down rock in a process called thermal fatigue.