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The space shuttle Enterprise flew to New York from Washington on Friday piggybacking atop a Boeing 747 and made a dramatic flight along the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty to the delight of observers. En route to John F. Kennedy International Airport, the retired shuttle flew at low altitude along the river,...
Scientists have made a tiny crystal which they claim will take quantum computing to the next level, creating one of the world’s most powerful computers ever developed. “Computing technology has taken a huge leap forward using a crystal with just 300 atoms suspended in space,” said Michael Biercuk at the University of Sydney, who...
India’s first indigenous all-weather radar imaging satellite (RISAT-1), whose images will facilitate agriculture and disaster management, was today launched successfully on board the PSLV-C19 from here. The 1,858 kg spacecraft, the country’s first microwave remote sensing satellite, was injected into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle about 19 minutes after a perfect lift...
Buoyed by the successful launch of all-weather radar imaging satellite RISAT-1, ISRO today announced it would launch two GSLVs and a PSLV this fiscal and the second Indian moon mission of Chandrayaan 2 in 2014 on board a GSLV. “The launch of Chandrayaan 2 will be in 2014. We are working towards it. It...
India’s plans to send a human into outer space could not take off as budgeted funds remained unutilised due the failure of Department of Space to secure necessary approvals for the ambitious project. The Comptroller and Auditor General, in its report tabled in Parliament today, also pointed out “unrealistic budgeting” by the Department of...
Just go to Google, and you will find a giant zipper running down the centre of the global search engine’s home page. No prizes for guessing. It’s to mark the 132nd birth anniversary of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American inventor of the ubiquitous zipper — the fastening device that has revolutionised the clothing industry. In...
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