India is working towards becoming self-reliant in the space sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, adding that the country will have its own space station in the near future.
It began with a crack - barely visible, tucked away in the weld joint of a pressure feedline on a Falcon-9 booster. A minor flaw, perhaps, in the grand machinery of spaceflight.
The Cabinet on Wednesday accorded a heartfelt welcome to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla on his safe return from the International Space Station on July 15.
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to reach the International Space Station (ISS), is set to return to Earth on Tuesday, marking the end of a historic mission under Axiom Space’s Ax-4 program.
Following undocking, SpaceX’s Grace, its latest Crew Dragon capsule, will embark on a nearly 23-hour journey back to Earth, with splashdown expected off the California coast.
The launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), has been postponed once again on Friday, as NASA and its partners continue technical evaluations.
The Axiom-4 mission — a much-anticipated commercial spaceflight carrying Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla and three other crew members — is now expected to be launched on June 19.
The much-anticipated launch of the Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), featuring Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, has been postponed once again due to technical observations related to the Zvezda module of the ISS.
The Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed again—this time due to a technical glitch in the launch vehicle.
India’s first experiment aboard the International Space Station will examine how microgravity and space radiation affect the growth of small edible algae — a potential food source for future long-duration space missions.
