Tag: space
Hubble Detects 'shadow Play' Caused By Possible Planet
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a "shadow play" caused by a possible planet that is moving counterclockwise around a gas-and-dust disk encircling a young star.....
Digital Workspace Helping Firms Improve Management Costs
Enterprises embracing digital workspace across devices, applications and services are experiencing business, operational and financial benefits, a new report said on Thursday.....
SpaceX Successfully Launches Rocket Since September Explosion
A Falcon 9 rocket of the SpaceX aerospace company had a successful lift-off from the launch pad at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in the US, the company's first launch since a similar unmanned rocket exploded last September in Florida.....
Nitish Kumar Rejects BJP Demand To Postpone Longest Human Chain
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday rejected BJP's demand to postpone its programme of forming the world's longest human chain on January 21 in support of prohibition in the state in view of the boat tragedy that claimed 24 lives.....
Japan Launches Defence Communications Satellite
Japan on Tuesday launched a new communications satellite designed to promote the sharing of military information.....
India To Launch Standby Navigation Satellite
India will launch one of its back up navigation satellites this year as a replacement to IRNSS-1A satellite, whose three atomic clocks have failed, an official of the Indian space agency said on Monday.....
Vodafone Confirms Talks With Idea For Merger
Ending months of speculation, Vodafone on Monday confirmed it is in talks with the Aditya Vikram Birla group for the merger of its Indian entity and Idea Cellular in what will be the largest such deal in the country's telecom space once it materialises.....
This Space Radio Could Help Track Every Flight In Real Time
Researchers have developed a reconfigurable radio that could help air traffic controllers see in real-time the location of every plane in the air -- even those flying across oceans.....
NASA Telescope Spots Most Extreme Blazars Yet
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope has identified the farthest gamma-ray blazars, a type of galaxy whose intense emissions are powered by super-sized black holes.....
Can Trump Make The Whole Earth Green Again?
In the barrage of criticism against US President Donald Trump for his utterances on refugees and Muslims, what has been missed is that he has an "open mind" on environmental issues. He should now again see with an open heart the image of the "whole Earth" taken by the Apollo 17 mission commanded by Eugene Andrew Cernan (who died on January 16, four days before Trump assumed office). That may trigger action to make not only America, but the entire Earth, great again.....
