Victor Dasgupta | Mar 30, 2025, 7:24 AM IST
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is constructed to find out the different aspects of the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, to better understand solar wind, magnetic fields, and space weather that can impact Earth.
PTI | Sep 10, 2020, 3:40 PM IST
Northrop Grumman, an American global aerospace and defence technology company, announced that its next Cygnus capsule will be named the "S.S. Kalpana Chawla''
PTI | Oct 24, 2019, 8:18 PM IST
Chawla was the first woman of Indian-origin to fly to space, and in her will she had said that after her demise her ashes be either scattered over the Himalayas or the Zion National Park in Utah.
Vandana.Srivastawa | Feb 1, 2018, 2:05 PM IST
Kalpana Chawla was killed in the tragic accident of Columbia Space Shuttle when it disintegrated upon entering the Earth's atmosphere.
ANI | May 23, 2016, 3:47 PM IST
Heaping praises on the scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for successfully launching India's first indigenous space shuttle RLV-TD, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the launch was the result of the industrious efforts by them.
ANI | May 23, 2016, 1:44 PM IST
The nine-metre long rocket weighs 11 tonnes. Very similar in its looks to the USspace shuttle, the double delta-winged RLV-TD being experimented is a scale model which is almost 6 times smaller than the final version.
Press Trust of India | May 16, 2016, 9:37 PM IST
The Indian space agency is all set to undertake the maiden launch of its very own indigenously version of a ‘space shuttle’
ANI | May 15, 2016, 5:36 PM IST
After launch, it will be glided back onto a virtual runway in the Bay of Bengal. This flight will test the capability of the vehicle to survive a re-entry at speeds higher than that of sound, so it is called a hyper sonic experiment (HEX).
Rishabh Chakravorty | Dec 27, 2013, 12:31 PM IST
All the snobs of India, this is just the thing for you.
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