The North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW), one of the most critically endangered mammals on Earth, continues to be threatened with several dangers despite the prohibition of commercial whaling. Entanglement in fishing nets and collisions with ships are now the greatest dangers to their existence. To help protect these whales from these dangers, scientists have come…
Only weeks after the United States sounded the alarm over China’s mock “dogfights” in space, India has quietly pulled off a historic space manoeuvre of its own—one that marries sophisticated scientific finesse with nuanced strategic signalling. On its SPADEX (Space Docking Experiment) mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully executed a high-speed satellite rendezvous…
The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James Bond franchise, a seller of electronic gadgets like Echo smart…
SpaceX made a key milestone in delivering global internet connectivity on April 24, 2025, with the successful launch of the Starlink 6-74 mission. In the mission, 28 satellites were deployed in low Earth orbit, adding further to Spacex’s Starlink constellation. This expansion is central to the company’s mission of providing high-speed internet connectivity to even…
BENGALURU: Isro has successfully managed to dock the two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites for the second time, an achievement that would give the space agency data to further better its technology in the future.V Narayanan, chairman, Isro, told TOI: “This is a significant achievement and further activities are being planned now.” Stating that the…
Beginning next year, if you catch an American Airlines flight, you won’t have to pay to watch shows or movies, keep up with the latest news or endlessly scroll your social media feeds to pass the time. American Airlines will provide free high-speed Wi-Fi for its regular costumers on most flights, the company announced on…
Picture courtesy: X/John Kraus After a series of delays earlier in the week, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket finally lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A at 8:53 pm on Saturday. The rocket was carrying 21 starlink satellites into orbit, with 13 of them equipped with direct to cell capabilities, which is designed to enhance…
Jonathan McDowell is a go-to expert for all things spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers read his monthly Space Report, and far more people have seen him on cable news and other media platforms explaining unexpected events in orbit. But that has always been his side gig: For 37 years, Dr. McDowell has been a specialist in…
The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller three decades ago, is now a merchandising behemoth, the owner of the James Bond franchise, a seller of electronic gadgets like Echo smart speakers and…
BENGALURU: Isro, which recently undocked the two satellites part of its Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission on March 13, has successfully completed another experiment — the “rolling” or “rotating” experiment — which involved circumnavigation of one of the satellites and bringing it back to the same spot.This experiment, being likened to the Chandrayaan-3 “hop” experiment…