Chang’e-4 lunar probe mission
China launched a rover destined to land on the far side of the moon.
Method to simulate, predict solar activity
A team of researchers from IISER Kolkata has developed a way of predicting the intensity of activity in the next solar cycle (approximately from 2020 to 2031) using data spread over the last 100 years.
Dendritic cells
Scientists in Sweden claim to have successfully reprogrammed mouse and human skin cells into immune cells called dendritic cells.
M.S. Swaminathan calls GM crops ‘a failure’
A research paper co-authored by leading agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, which describes Bt cotton as a ‘failure,’ was criticised by India’s Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA), K. VijayRaghavan as ‘deeply flawed’.
GSAT-11
GSAT-11, the heaviest Indian communication satellite built to date, for faster Internet connectivity, is back once again at the Guiana Space Centre for an launch.
Soyuz: first manned mission to ISS since October failure
A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit, in the first manned mission since a failed launch in October.
Soyuz: first manned mission to ISS since October failure
A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit, in the first manned mission since a failed launch in October.
Soyuz: first manned mission to ISS since October failure
A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit, in the first manned mission since a failed launch in October.
HysIS- Imaging satellite
HysIS, the country’s first hyperspectral imaging satellite for advanced Earth observation.
NASA’s InSight Rover
Nasa’s InSight spacecraft is about to endure “seven minutes of terror” and might end them dead on the Martian surface.