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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicSpace exploration

Topic: Space exploration

Space Activities Bill, meant to boost private role, will create confusion instead

Narayan Prasad -
The draft Space Activities Bill, which might be presented in the winter session of Parliament, leaves crucial newspace facets unconsidered.

Indians mansplain ‘planets’ to an engineer who helped land Curiosity rover on Mars

Mohana Basu -
Anita Sengupta, a former NASA scientist, even shared a chart on how men can avoid the temptation to mansplain.

Space exploration is commercial now. That’s how it should be

Michael R. Strain -
Missions like Apollo 11 served their purpose as public good. But it's time for private investment to push humanity out of its cradle and into the stars.

NASA marks New Year with flyby past farthest, oldest body ever explored

Sandhya Ramesh -
The New Horizons mission is likely to transmit initial data from its flyby past ‘Ultima Thule’ by 10 pm IST tonight.

NASA spacecraft finds signs that highrise-sized asteroid near Earth once had water

Sandhya Ramesh -
The finding made by NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is particularly noteworthy because we are yet to figure out how water came to be on Earth.  

China sends off Chang’e-4 for historic mission to the far side of the moon

Sandhya Ramesh -
Expected to land in January, Chang’e-4 will be the world’s first spacecraft to land on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth.

On its 10th anniversary, here are 5 key facts about India’s first space probe Chandrayaan

Sandhya Ramesh -
ISRO probe Chandrayaan was aimed at mapping the entire surface of the moon.

When NASA probe kisses the Sun, a star will spill long-held secrets

Sandhya Ramesh -
Why are the fringes of the Sun's atmosphere hotter than the surface? The Parker Solar Probe may tell us.
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Opinion

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

+TFP Praveen Swami -
Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Musk’s golden touch is on the line. Tesla needs him to do what he does best — sell a pen

Chinese chatter says Trump tariffs will make India turn to China and Russia

Economy

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Akanksha Mishra -
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

Defence

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

Javaria Rana -
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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