15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
India has catapulted itself into the spaceflight history books today by successfully launching 104 satellites on a single mission, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014. But former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair ...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
India’s attempt to be the first nation to land close to the south pole of the Moon has unfortunately been thwarted as contact with Chandrayaan-2 was lost minutes before its Vikram module was due to touch down at the lunar south pole. The Chandrayaan...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
... but differently. AstroQuest aims to maximize “the enjoyment and engagement of our volunteers” this time by turning the research into a quest. “A few of us on the team are avid gamers, so it’s no surprise we’d try to inject a bit of gaming flair into...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... out on Earth then there is in principle no need to take the detour into space. However, this is not how research and innovation functions. Some discoveries occur by accident (e.g. penicillin, electricity), some through transfer from one field...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... of cost-to-performance options. Many of these microgravity experiments were oriented towards space exploration and this advanced research started to push the boundaries in physics, biology and chemistry. A big shift began in the USA when constrained...
16 August 2016
Have researchers uncovered a fifth fundamental force?
... and dark matter. "If true, it's revolutionary," said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics & astronomy and lead author of the research paper that worked on the re-analysis of the original Hungarian experiment. This new force has come to light...
