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PTI 12:15 PM | November 19,2009
The agreement with the Indian Space Research Organisation will lead to the use of data from Oceansat-2 for various US agencies for research, education and other activities of public good including weather forecasting
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AFP 04:40 PM | November 17,2009
Space agency officials said the mission was crucial as just five more shuttle launches remain before the planned September 2010 retirement of the fleet
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Jacob P. Koshy 11:40 PM | October 29,2009
Methane, in spite of being the second most prevalent GHGs in the atmosphere, is only about 0.4% by volume of the total carbon dioxide present
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Prasanto K. Roy 12:36 AM | October 14,2009
For all their multitasking abilities, our gadgets rely heavily on the batteries that power them. If the small-is-bigger buzzword is driving the gadget world, batteries too must shrink in size and pack in more juice. A primer on the future of battery technology
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Jean-Louis Santini / AFP 10:12 PM | October 09,2009
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) satellite crashed into the Cabeus crater floor near the moon’s south pole at around 9,000km per hour, followed four minutes later by a shepherding spacecraft equipped with cameras to record the impact
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K. Raghu 09:45 PM | September 25,2009
The space agency has planned two rovers on board this time to mine the moon’s surface to find more water
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K. Raghu and Jacob P. Koshy 11:49 PM | September 24,2009
India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I has detected evidence of water across the lunar surface
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K. Raghu 11:36 PM | September 20,2009
When the new engine is ready for commercialization, which GE is targeting in six years, it would be the first one to give fuel efficiency as high as 30% over existing plane engines
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K. Raghu 10:54 PM | September 08,2009
‘Chandrayaan-1’ was terminated on 30 August after its power systems failed and scientists lost contact, caused by an inadequate thermal system that could not protect some of the instruments on board from the moon’s heat
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Reuters 09:33 AM | August 31,2009
After nearly two days of traveling following its launch late Friday night, Discovery reached the Space Station at 8:54pm EDT as it sailed 362 km over the Atlantic
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PTI 01:14 PM | August 30,2009
The scientists, with the help of Nasa satellite data, have found that ground levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33 centimeters (one foot) per year over the past decade
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PTI 11:58 AM | August 30,2009
The two-year mission, launched on 22 October last year, was abandoned early on Saturday as the mission controllers “abruptly lost” radio contact with the mooncraft at 0130 IST
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Reuters 03:44 PM | August 26,2009
Discovery and its seven-member crew were preparing for a 13-day supply mission to the International Space Station
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AP 09:40 AM | August 24,2009
Nasa to use pop culture figures to get the ‘average Joe’ interested in its missions
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PTI 03:48 PM | August 18,2009
The amino acid was found in samples returned to earth by Nasa’s Stardust mission, which flew by Comet Wild-2 in 2004 to capture particles shed by the five kilometre object
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