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Topic: Aerospace

Sunita Williams dances as her Boeing Starliner arrives at space station

The mission's success heralds a new era in space exploration and collaboration between NASA and private industry partners.

Amid Hong Kong spying row, China ‘uncovers’ espionage attempts in its aerospace sector

In a post on WeChat, Chinese Ministry of State Security claimed that it has cracked down on multiple espionage attempts in cases including inducement & coercion of 'core secrets'.

China’s CAS Space announces ‘space tourism vehicle’ will travel to edge of space by 2028

The company plans to arrange a launch every 100 hours from a newly-built aerospace theme park. Its vehicle will include a tourist cabin and carry 7 passengers per flight.

Capable of winds 4x the speed of sound, how India’s new trisonic wind tunnel will aid rocket launches

The 2nd of 3-part series looks at TWT at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre that can run at 3 wind velocity ranges. It was built by Tata Projects, Canada’s Aiolos Engineering Corp & others.

French aerospace giant Thales plans to set up avionics MRO in Delhi

French aerospace major, involved with the Indian military for over 7 decades, said the company is ramping up its engineering centres and teams in Bengaluru and Noida.

2024’s most exciting space missions– Moon’s south pole to ice-covered ocean world

New missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon in 2024.

India’s ‘Air and Space Force’: Spaceplane to ‘desi GPS’, how IAF renaming will widen its ambit

Renaming imminent, it is learnt. IAF aims to boost intel, surveillance & reconnaissance capabilities via space assets, has started training officers to operate in space.

Skyroot Aerospace ups the ante in India’s private space sector race, raises $27.5 million funds

The Hyderabad-based company, which launched India's first private rocket in 2022, is set to launch its second commercial rocket, the Vikram-I, next year.

Indian company enters Japanese market with swarm tech solution for disaster management 

Bengaluru firm NRT conducted 1st swarm demonstration in Japan on 1 August. The tech helps identify disaster survivors, assess damage as well as large-scale data collection.

50 years of robotic exploration has made Mars a garbage dump

Today, the main concern scientists have about trash on Mars is the risk it poses to current and future missions.

On Camera

AI integration for military is risky business. Combat monopoly must remain with soldiers

The Army has plans for a technology thrust in the near term, including the use of AI to support decision-making. While well-intentioned, this may have unintended consequences.

Web of spoof sites, scam call centres. Crypto theft racket modus operandi in focus amid ED crackdown

As part of the crypto theft racket, businessman Chirag Tomar and his aides targeted 542 victims and managed to steal a total of Rs 19.9 million.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.