“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” the English novelist L.P. Hartley wrote famously in his 1953 novel The Go-Between. In a peculiar twist, the same cannot be said of the Moon. It is not a foreign country, or even a foreign world: the U.S.’s manoeuvring to beat China to the…
Hyderabad: Diagnostic services provider Redcliffe Labs on Friday said it has joined hands with Skyroot Aerospace to explore the future of diagnostics in space. The collaboration will study how diagnostic materials perform in space, marking what the companies describe as India’s first partnership between diagnostics and private space science.Noida-headquartered Redcliffe said its diagnostic research capabilities…
A series of developments in India’s vaunted space sector — built up over the last six decades with grit and ingenuity, amid technology denials — has put the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the country’s premier space agency, under the spotlight. The developments have revolved around unprecedented failures, slowdown of projects with top billing, fears…
Photographic view during the Static Test of SOLVE-ST01 NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the first ground test of the solid motor for its Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle for Experiments (SOLVE), a new test platform being developed to support the Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.The static test was carried out at the…
