Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday described ISRO’s 100th space mission as “a milestone” following the successful launch of its rocket carrying two foreign satellites.
ISRO’s 100th space mission “is a milestone in our nation’s space capability”, Manmohan Singh said after the launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.
He congratulated scientists and engineers of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Read more
According to latest reports, the Indo-American Sunita Williams has today taken off her second space odyssey. Earlier, Sunita Williams had lived and worked in the International Space Station [ISS] for six months in 2006.
As per the statement released by NASA, it said, “The spacecraft carrying the 46-year-old Williams blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8.10 am today with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.” Read more
On February 7, the first mission to the International Space Station by a privately built and operated spacecraft will lift off; this has been announced by NASA.
The builder and manager of this craft is SpaceX, techbiz visionary Elon Musk’s new company. This craft will be made with Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket that use to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
In fact, the craft lift by Dragon and the Falcon 9 which all are modern designs as compare to rockets that have been used since 1970. Along this operating cost of Falcon 9 is expected to be low which lifts it. Read more
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