GSLV mission with indigenous cryogenic engine early next year

Last Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 21:48

With a series of ground tests already over, ISRO was planning to launch its ambitious GSLV space mission with indigenously built cryogenic engine early next year, a top official said today.

China unveils ambitious space projects

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 16:34

China will launch several space projects, including a hard X-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, a Chinese academic announced Wednesday.

PM announces Mars mission, says will be huge step

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 09:19

India will send a spaceship to Mars to collect important scientific information about the Red Planet, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced today.

Sunita Williams blasts off for 2nd space odyssey

Last Updated: Sunday, July 15, 2012, 08:36

Indian-American record-setting astronaut Sunita Williams along with her two colleagues today took off for her second space odyssey on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

First private deep space mission to track asteroids could threaten Earth

Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2012, 19:22

Asteroid hunters have announced plans to launch the first privately funded deep space mission in history to look for asteroids that could threaten Earth.

Par panel pulls up Dept of Space for delay in key missions

Last Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012, 13:36

A Parliamentary panel has pulled up the Department of Space for delays in its headline missions of human spaceflight and sending satellites to moon and Mars.

Joining Chinese space mission doesn`t come easy!

Last Updated: Sunday, March 25, 2012, 19:40

China has selected its first two women astronauts for its next manned space mission to be launched between June and August.

Russia unveils robot for space missions

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 08:32

Russia has built an android -- a robot resembling a human being -- to work in orbit.

No manned space mission this year: China

Last Updated: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 14:42

China has put off its plan to send a manned mission this year to experiment space rendezvous and docking mission.

IAF to select crew for India`s 1st manned mission

Last Updated: Friday, December 30, 2011, 20:22

Indian Air Force (IAF) has signed an MoU with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and is now planning to set up facilities for selecting the crew for the maiden flight.