India launched its INSAR-3DR advanced weather satellite on Thursday 4:50pm, 12.20GMTand slung the 2,211 kg satellite in to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, from where it could be guided to its final geostationary orbit. Indian Space Scientists took around two decades and $75m in conceiving and developing the cryogenic technology. The Satellite incorporates imaging in middle infrared…
NASA’s probe Juno, moving at 130,000 mph (208,000 km/h), has made its first close approach to the planet Jupiter, 2600miles (4200km) above, since going into orbit in July. Juno had all is instruments and camera switched on and is ready for the encounter. Nasa expects to release some high resolution images from the approach in…
NASA’s probe Juno, moving at 130,000 mph (208,000 km/h), has made its first close approach to the planet Jupiter, 2600miles (4200km) above, since going into orbit in July. Juno had all is instruments and camera switched on and is ready for the encounter. Nasa expects to release some high resolution images from the approach in…
Saturn’s largest Moon Titan, life might exist beyond the bounds of water-based chemistry, according to scientists at Cornell University. According to a report in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) in the planet’s atmosphere and speculate that it could become a possible prebiotic…
India today successfully launched 20 satellites, including its earth observation 727.5kg Cartosat-2 series, PSLV lifted off a total of 1288kg in to space and began placing satellites into orbit about 17minutes later, in the designated polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), in a single mission on board ISRO’s 320-tonne Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C34 from the…
A new plant belonging to apocynaceae family has ben christened ‘Cerepegia Nambiyana’, in honour of Professor Santhosh Nambi, head of Calicut University Directorate of Research. He spotted the species at Ponkunnumala in Nanmanda, outskirts of Kozhikode, in Kerala, India. The plant is known as Nagahtumpa, Nottanodan Valli or Thammanam Kizhangu . An article on the…
Mercury, the Solar system’s innermost and smallest planet, will make a rare transit of the Sun on Monday 9thMay 2016, an event which occurs 13 times in a century. It will resemble a black round dot as it passes in front of the star. The last this event happened was in 2006 when Mercury crossed…
Materials and mechanisms used on Indian rockets have been tweaked by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to make a device which some say definitely a step towards the making of an “artificial heart”. The prototype has been successfully tested on animals. The ISRO team known for orbiting satellites and flying giant rockets to space, made…
The US computer programmer, Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, the inventor of email and Internet Pioneer has died of heart attack, on Saturday March 5, 2016, at the age of 74. His ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses, is now an universal standard and his idea of sending electronic messages from one network to…
The Raspberry Pi sales are expected to surpass eight million units, featuring 64-bit processor and built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth connections according to founder Eben Crhistopher Upton, a Computer Science graduate from University of Cambridge, PhD, MBA and director of Studies in Computer Science at St Johns College. He is the technical director and SoC architect…