Aerospace
India launches high-power communication satellite GSAT-30
17 Jan 2020
The 3,357 kgGSAT-30 will provide continuity to operational services on some of the in-orbit satellites, replacing INSAT-4A in orbit, while also expanding reach in the Gulf countries, several Asian countries and Australia
China launches world’s largest single-dish radio telescope
13 Jan 2020
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ( FAST) is the size of 30 football fields and has been hewed out of a mountain in the south-western province of Guizhou
Isro plans a repeat of second moon mission with Chandrayaan-3
02 Jan 2020
Sivan said Isro has planned more than space 25 missions in 2020 and that preparations for the manned space mission, `Gaganyaan’ are going on simultaneously with the Chandrayaan-3 mission which is slated for 2021
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover to seek ancient life, scope for humans
30 Dec 2019
The Rover is equipped with state-of-the-art scientific instruments meant for acquiring information about Martian geology, atmosphere, environmental conditions, and potential biosignatures
China’s Long March-5 rocket places 8-tonne satellite in orbit
30 Dec 2019
The Long March-5, a huge, two-stage rocket, is capable of carrying a payload of up to 25 tonnes into low Earth orbit, 14 tonnes to geostationary transfer orbit and 8 tonnes to Earth-Moon transfer orbit
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