Aerospace

07 Jan 2019

Lenders are wary of taking Jet Airways to the National Company Law Tribunal for insolvency proceedings since they are not sure of the value of its assets, but expects partner Etihad Airways to buy more stake in the company

03 Jan 2019

Besides a variety of equipment to study the lunar surface in great detail, Chang'e 4 also features totes, a biological experiment that will track how silkworms, tomatoes and Arabidopsis plants grow and develop on the lunar surface

03 Jan 2019

The year 2019 will be more challenging to Isro with 32 planned missions (14 launch vehicle, 17 satellite and 1 technology demonstration mission), including the most complex Chandrayaan-2, its chairman K Sivan said

02 Jan 2019

31 Dec 2018

05 Dec 2018

Christian Michel, a British national, is wanted in a case related to organising bribes of Rs225 crore (about 30 million euros) to push a Rs3,600-crore contract for VVIP helicopters during the UPA regime

22 Nov 2018

Despite Mars’ reputation as a dry, arid world, water is believed to have played a key role in sculpting `Nili Fossae’ where the surrounding environment has visual cues of once flowing water

29 Aug 2018

11 Aug 2018

A US jury has ordered chemical giant Monsanto to pay $289 million, including $250 million in punitive damages to a dying groundskeeper, saying the company did not even care to warn the poor man that its weed killer Roundup might cause cancer

05 Jul 2018

The Crew Escape System test comes three and a half years after the Crew Module Atmospheric Reentry Experiment (CARE) which successfully demonstrated the spacecraft’s ability to withstand the rigors of atmospheric reentry