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Junk in space is a huge threat to everything from Internet to GPS & weather forecasts

Mark Buchanan - September 20, 2018

More than 20,000 satellites, rocket pieces and collision fragments are orbiting earth & present a clear and present danger to satellite operations.

Why IAF fighter pilots are the natural choice for ISRO manned missions

Sujan Dutta - August 30, 2018

There's the passion for flying, of course, but there are many other factors as well. ThePrint explains.

Pune telescope hailed for discovering one of farthest known galaxies

Sandhya Ramesh - August 14, 2018

The Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope has singularly detected several record-breaking objects.

The faces of the people left out of the NRC, and why you can’t click stars in space

Yashasvini Mathur - August 1, 2018

Front Page As uncertainty ensued over the 40 lakh names missing from the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the Registrar...

Black hole 26,000 light years from us proves Albert Einstein’s theory right

Sandhya Ramesh - July 31, 2018

Stars close to the supermassive black hole were found to be losing energy, a phenomenon predicted by Einstein almost 100 years ago.

Should India lead the way and set up a colony on the moon or focus on Mars instead?

ThePrint Team - June 13, 2018

Ahead of ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 launch later this year, and the planning for Mangalyaan 2 mission underway, there is global talk on going back...

The ISRO spy case that became a potboiler of ‘sex, spies and rocket science’

Vidya Sagar Reddy - May 6, 2018

Scientist Nambi Narayanan in Ready to Fire: How India and I Survived the ISRO Spy Case writes about being accused of selling top-secret data to foreign nationals and his acquittal.

Remembering a Haryana girl who made Hindi Medium Type cool by becoming a heroic astronaut

Shekhar Gupta - February 2, 2018

Kalpana Chawla died in a space tragedy 15 years ago. But she brought home to me the Hindi Medium Type, or HMT, advantage.

TalkPoint: Does it make sense for India’s private sector to venture into space?

ThePrint Team - January 10, 2018

As the moon-landing proposal of private space start-up TeamIndus hits a new financial roadblock, experts weigh in on the question.

With help from ISRO, Japan plans to take humans to the moon by 2020s

Vandana Menon - November 20, 2017

Space agency chief Naoki Okumura says Japan & India may be in competition, but cooperation on moon mission will help fend off other countries.

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