NASA is following up its Apollo mission to the Moon with its new mission Artemis in 2024, and has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services as part of the Artemis program. The three consortia that will design...
India's Prolgae Spirulina to Make Food Products
Prolgae Spirulina Supplies a Tamil Nadu, India-based Nordic-Indian joint venture supplies sun-dried spirulina microalgae nibs and powder as ingredients to food and nutraceutical markets in Europe and the U.S. The blue-green algae became famous after it was used by NASA as a dietary supplement for astronauts on space missions. To...
U.S., India, China Step-Up Moon Exploration
NASA scientists have plans to visit the Earth-Moon Lagrangian point, or EML-2, about 37,000 miles above the far side of the Moon, where the gravitational pull of two separate bodies creates "parking places" or stable areas to land orbiting spacecraft. There is no clear timeline to this plan yet. China...
U.S., India Collaborate on Building Radar Satellite
NASA and India's ISRO - the Indian Space Research Organization - will jointly build a satellite called NISAR or the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite which could be the world's most expensive Earth imaging satellite, and will cost the two countries over 1.5 billion dollars. In a meeting in Toronto,...
Satellite Imagery Highlights India's Rapid Urban Growth
New satellite imagery released by NASA shows a huge growth of Indian cities in recent years. Vast swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up by large new urban areas in imagery from 2016. According to the Oxford Economics Global City Forecast: For Asia and...
ISRO Successfully Tests Reusable Spacecraft
Last month, I blogged about India’s Space Research Organization (ISRO), was in the final countdown stage of building and launching its very own version of a 'space shuttle'. On May 23, the organization successfully launched an un-manned reusable rocket approximately 43 miles into the air, which was followed by a...