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China to launch manned mission with three astronauts for its space station

The station will rival the ageing International Space Station (ISS).

NATO countries ready to collectively respond to attacks in space

Article 5 of NATO's founding treaty states that attack on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all.

Order in space

International agreement will boost India's space capabilities

In space, on a joyride

In 2011, Space Adventures, a space tourism company that successfully sent seven clients to orbital journey, suggested the number of space tourists could reach 140 by 2020 but little changed since then

Blue Origin discloses $2 mn as current highest bid for seat on space flight

Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos' rocket company, disclosed $2 million as the current highest bid for a seat on its New Shepherd spacecraft after the startup closed the first phase of its auction.

Why Chinese rocket's crash should alert us to the problem of space junk

Navigating the celestial traffic jam caused by defunct rockets, satellites and their debris is both challenging and dangerous

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by Sunday, say research centers

EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said its latest prediction for the timing of the re-entry of the Long March 5B rocket body was 190 minutes either side of 0211 GMT on Sunday

Falling space rocket 'highly unlikely' to cause any damage on earth: China

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it was tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend

SpaceX launches third crew in under a year, fly on reused rocket

SpaceX launched four astronauts toward orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover extracts first oxygen from Red Planet

The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen

Note to future space travellers: Reduced gravity will shrink your heart

Without the pull of gravity, the heart does not have to pump as hard, and like any other muscle, it loses some fitness from less strenuous use

SpaceX launches test rocket Starship, breaks apart before landing

SpaceX chalked up another failed landing Tuesday for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown.

ISRO demonstrates free space quantum communication for the first time

QKD technology underpins quantum communication tech that ensures unconditional data security by virtue of principles of quantum mechanics, which is not possible with conventional encryption systems

India, Saudi Arabia hold talks on initiating cooperation in space

India and Saudi Arabia held discussions on initiating cooperation in the space field and explored the possibility of inking a county-level MoU

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin postpones New Glenn debut to Q4 2022

The flight was earlier scheduled for sometime this year

Isro on a mission to give leg-up to start-ups in space sector

ISRO has embarked on a mission to take startups in the space sector to a higher orbit with a string of initiatives to help them realise their business potential. It is keen on formulating an exclusive space startup programme -- "Space Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development (SEED)", Secretary in the Department of Space and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K Sivan said. SEED is conceived as a competitive early stage encouragement programme to startups and MSMEs (Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises) keen on developing products/services in focus areas of interest to ISRO with the space agency helping them to use its facilities, officials said. A formal mechanism for the programme was expected to be announced soon, they said. With recent reforms opening up doors for enhanced private sector participation in the space sector, ISRO is thrilled to receive several proposals from industries and startups, Sivan said. "These proposals reflect the true ...

Amid criticism, Nicaragua creates Min of Extraterrestrial Space Affairs

The agency was approved by 76 legislators Thursday in the country''s congress, which is dominated by President Daniel Ortega''s Sandinista Party. Fifteen opposition legislators abstained

NASA in talks with US space startup to secure 1 Soyuz seat

NASA is reportedly in talks with the Texas-based aerospace firm Axiom Space which arranges private astronaut rides

Japanese space experts to examine source of high heat on asteroid

Japanese space experts said Thursday they will examine soil samples brought back from a distant asteroid in an attempt to find the source of heat that altered the celestial body

This startup set up by 21-year-olds tracks dead satellites and 'space junk'

Digantara, a company incubated at Indian Insitute of Science (IISc), aims to combat the growing problem of space debris by developing India's first space-based surveillance platform