Science/Technology

Moscow: The communications satellite AngoSat-2, a joint space project of Russia and Angola, will be launched in October 2022, meeting its initial deadlines, according to the corporate newspaper of the satellite's manufacturer, Russia's ISS-Reshetev Company.According to the report, the...

Washington: American pharmaceutical company Moderna said Friday it is suing Pfizer and BioNTech, alleging that the competitors copied its mRNA technology to make their own COVID-19 vaccine."Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines,...

Los Angeles: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system, NASA said.This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a sun-like star...

Chennai: The Indian Space Agency has achieved yet anothermilestone, when it successfully conducted Low Altitude Escape Motor (LEM)Static Test of Crew Escape System for its first manned Gaganyaan mission.ISRO sources today said another important milestone in the Gaganyaanproject...

Taiyuan: China on Wednesday sent 16 new satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi.The satellites, including a Jilin-1 Gaofen 03D09 satellite and Yunyao-1 04-08 satellites, were launched by a Long...

Chennai: The Indian Space program will herald yet anothermilestone when the maiden flight of the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle(SSLV), which will ferry Earth Observation Satellite-2 (EOS-2) and aco-passenger satellite AzaadiSAT into a Low Earth Orbit will take placetomorrow from...

Chennai: India's maiden flight of its Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) mission, which will ferry Earth Observation Satellite-2 (EOS-2) and a co-passenger satellite AzaadiSAT, into a Low Earth Orbit, will take place on August seven.The Indian Space Research...

Taiyuan, China: China successfully launched a terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite and two other satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Thursday.The satellites were launched at 11:08 am (Beijing time) by a...

Beijing: China on Sunday launched the second of three modules for its space station.The first one was sent in April 2021.According to Global Times, the giant heavy lift Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket took off from the Wenchang Space...

Moscow: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti went for a spacewalk under the Russian flight program, the first time a Russian makes a joint spacewalk with a foreigner in 13 years, the broadcast is...