Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. IMAGE: Gopi Thotakura.......
I have a bit of a personal dilemma: I have a soft corner for Shashi Tharoor, but I do like Rajeev Chandrasekhar's pitch, confesses Rajeev Srinivasan. IMAGE: Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Lok......
Preparations are in the final stages by the Chennai-headquartered space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos for the maiden launch of India's first-ever private launchpad and the second rocket launch by a......
Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday successfully launched its proven Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket carrying seven Singaporean satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre......
India would launch a satellite from Singapore carrying a Synthetic Aperture Radar payload developed by Israel Aerospace Industries capable of taking images under all weather conditions, on July 30.......
A team of three aerospace-engineering students from India has been selected as one the finalists in a contest organised by Airbus to find a future aircraft with near-zero propulsion noise.The team......
Jet Airways on Monday awarded $750-million contract to a leading Singaporean firm for maintenance support to engines of its 67-strong Boeing-737 fleet over the next 10 years. Jet and its......
Air India will be the first Indian carrier to acquire the ultramodern Boeing 787 Dreamliner. However, the airline will get its first 787 Dreamliner in the second quarter of 2011, according to......
A new portable electrocardiogram machine, the MAC 400, can take 100 EKGs on a single battery charge and weighs less than three pounds. This is appropriate for rural areas in emerging markets where......
As staff at the College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering wait patiently in a conference room, a loud rumble shatters the silence. "Must be him," someone says. Alain E. Kaloyeros has just pulled......