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Thursday, April 9, 2026
TopicSpace programme

Topic: space programme

Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka to serve as ‘manufacturing hubs’ for India’s homegrown space dreams

Gujarat will focus on manufacturing of satellites & payloads, Tamil Nadu on launch vehicles, and Karnataka will look at the overall manufacturing and assembling.

UP village kids forced ISRO to bring space lab. Now they use drones, building weather station

A Bollywood movie, students with big dreams, a supportive pradhan, and ISRO's leap of faith gave UP's Hasudi Ausanpur village India's first primary school with its own space lab. Now, village elders are learning through science.

NASA cat-apulted a cute video to Earth from a spacecraft 31 million km away. Why this is big

The 15-second clip of a ginger tabby named Taters has become the first ultra-high definition streaming video beamed from space. It took only 101 seconds to reach Earth.

Cosmic treasure! NASA’s asteroid sample that’s landed on Earth could hold clues to origin of life

US space agency's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, dropped off capsule containing sample in Utah desert. Asteroid Bennu could potentially collide into Earth a few centuries later.

India, US, UAE & Israel announce joint space venture to tackle environment issues, climate change

Venture launched by I2U2 group comprising the 4 countries & aims to use their combined data and capabilities to create space-based tool for policymakers, institutions and entrepreneurs.

China is using sci-fi & mythology to sell its space programme to the world

Government bodies have encouraged China’s sci-fi filmmakers to incorporate narratives that fit with the regime’s wider ideological and technological ambitions.

Chinese cargo spacecraft docks with its new space station module in orbit

The Tianhe core module of the Tiangong-3 space station was launched into orbit last month. The station is expected to be completed in 2022.

UK govt-Sunil Mittal joint venture wins satellite sale, inching closer to space

Sunil Mittal's Bharti Enterprises will provide London-based bankrupt satellite operator, OneWeb, with 'commercial and operational leadership'.

India must boost start-ups to catch up with China’s private space firms

Chinese space start-ups raised 555 million US dollars in 2018 alone, India was nowhere close. A govt push could create jobs & boost tax revenue.

Nehru’s belief in science fuelled India’s ‘audacious’ space programme

Nehru’s closeness to Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha, and his belief in science, were behind India’s space and atomic programmes.

On Camera

A stronger Iran has emerged from the rubble. US learned the lesson 40 days late

The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.

Data centre gold rush risks blackouts, central electricity body warns states against tripping grids

India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.

Theaterisation in play: Air Headquarters to control strategic assets  

Exclusive: Theaterisation proposal has been stuck over how limited air assets would be divided. Consensus reached on division of air assets among 3 theatres, it is learnt.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.