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23 stories for “Science & Technology”
Clear filtersSpace-tech firm Pixxel and AI company Sarvam are jointly developing Pathfinder, India's first orbital data centre satellite. The satellite belongs to the 200 kg class and is expected to be launched in the fourth quarter...
Vikram-1, India's first privately developed orbital rocket, has been flagged off. It was built by Skyroot Aerospace, a startup based in Hyderabad. Vikram-1 is a three-stage launch vehicle made of carbon composite, fitted...
New Appointment: Vishvajit Sahay Takes Charge of Defence FinanceVishvajit Sahay, a 1990 batch officer of the Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS), has assumed charge as the Secretary (Defence Finance) in the Ministry o...
India’s Orange Economy: Pioneering the Creative FutureThe Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has launched three landmark initiatives in March 2026 to strengthen India’s Orange Economy (Creative Economy). Thes...
A new study shows that NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) altered the orbit of a whole asteroid system. In September 2022, a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into Dimorphos, a small moonlet circling the as...
Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Bellatrix Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly develop Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) satellite systems. VLEO refers to orbits between 150 km and 450 km above t...
Skyroot Aerospace is getting ready to launch Vikram-1, the first orbital rocket developed by a private company in India. The rocket is designed to place satellites weighing up to 300 kg in low Earth orbit and will lift o...
**Overview** The India AI Impact Summit 2026, held from February 16 to 21 in New Delhi, marked a historic global convergence for artificial intelligence. The mega-event concluded with the adoption of the 'New Delhi Decla...
India set up its first government-supported National Biobank devoted to Lysosomal Storage Disorders. These are inherited metabolic diseases caused by the lack of particular enzymes, leading to harmful build-up of substan...
Two new telescopes in Ladakh, along with an upgrade to one already operating there, received approval in the Union Budget 2026. The National Large Solar Telescope is planned at Merak, close to Pangong Tso, and will be us...
Azista Space demonstrated India's first in-orbit imaging, or 'space snooping', capability by photographing the International Space Station with an indigenous satellite. The images were captured by the ABA First Runner (A...
