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NASA has picked Bengaluru-born astronomer Dr. Ramya Anche as Principal Investigator for PUFFINS, a space telescope mission worth $20 million. The acronym PUFFINS expands to Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features...
Satleo Labs, a spacetech startup based in Ahmedabad, has sent TAPAS-1 (Thermal Access Platform for Analytics & Solutions-1) into orbit on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter-18 rideshare mission. It is In...
On 28 September 2026, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) performed its third gravity assist around Earth, adding roughly 12,606 km/h (3.5 km/s) to its speed during the flyby. In a gravit...
The foundation stone for ISRO's Advanced Radar Research Centre has been laid at Chandrapur near Guwahati, Assam. The centre comes under Project NETRA (Network for Space Object Tracking and Analysis), India's programme fo...
Akasa Air and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) flew India's first commercial flight powered by aviation turbine fuel blended with 1% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The flight ran from Chhatrapati Shivaji Mah...
ISRO successfully launched the Earth observation satellite EOS-05 aboard GSLV-F17 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, placing it in a Sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. EOS-05 is India's first imaging satellite...
India aims to set up its own space station by 2035, and ISRO has approved the first module of the proposed Bharatiya Antariksh Station, called BAS-01. The station is planned as a 52-tonne facility in low-Earth orbit at 4...
ISRO intends to launch GISAT-1A (Geo Imaging Satellite-1A) in September 2026, resuming launches after a recent pause. It replaces GISAT-1 (EOS-03), lost in the GSLV-F10 mission of August 2021, when the cryogenic upper st...
IN-SPACe approved India's first fully commercial indigenous Earth Observation (EO) satellite constellation under the Public-Private Partnership model. The consortium, Allied Orbits Private Limited, is led by Pixxel Space...
IntroductionMarking a triumphant personal and scientific milestone in orbital human spaceflight, Indian-origin NASA astronaut Dr. Anil Menon successfully completed his first career spacewalk (Extravehicular Activity - EV...
IntroductionOne of the most prolific and celebrated celestial events of the astronomical calendar, the annual Perseid meteor shower, reached its spectacular peak around 12–13 August 2026. The 2026 celestial display was e...
IntroductionIndia scripted space history on 12 August 2026 with the successful launch of Chandrayaan-4, the country's first-ever lunar sample return mission, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The...
