Amitabh Sinha is Deputy Editor at The Indian Express. He writes on Environment, Climate Change, Water, Science and Technology, Space and Nuclear affairs, and related stuff. He has worked with PTI, Reuters, and BBC before joining The Indian Express in 2007. Amitabh has a PG Diploma in Journalism from IIMC, New Delhi, and a Masters in Public Administration from National University of Singapore.
September 09, 2023 23:17 IST
The G20 also committed to making lifestyle changes to curb greenhouse gas emissions, agreeing on a cause being championed by India for the last few years.
Sun, Sep 10, 2023September 09, 2023 04:00 IST
Space cooperation had formed a very important part of the joint statement between the two countries during Prime Minister Modi’s state visit to the US in June this year.
Sun, Sep 10, 2023September 09, 2023 00:21 IST
The synthesis report of the Global Stocktake (GST), a Paris Agreement-mandated exercise at assessing the progress on climate action, notes that while headway had indeed been made, countries were nowhere close to achieving targets that would keep global warming under agreed levels.
Sat, Sep 09, 2023September 07, 2023 07:26 IST
Dubbed the "moon sniper", Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 metres of its target site on the lunar surface. The $100-million mission is expected to reach the moon by February.
Fri, Sep 08, 2023September 07, 2023 07:07 IST
India’s 150 large reservoirs are a crucial source of water for the rest of the year, for not just households and industry, but also power generation. Storage levels are about 10% below the last 10 years’ average for this time of the year.
Fri, Sep 08, 2023September 06, 2023 01:26 IST
Dr R Krishnan, Director, Centre of Climate Change Research at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, analyses the factors behind extreme weather events and predictive models.
Wed, Sep 06, 2023September 05, 2023 07:43 IST
This is the first Moon-landing attempt being made by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Thu, Sep 07, 2023September 04, 2023 12:01 IST
“Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment. On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30-40 cm away,” ISRO said in a statement.
Wed, Sep 06, 2023September 02, 2023 08:48 IST
Annadurai said the key to maintaining this momentum was for ISRO to keep doing these kind of space missions at regular intervals.
Sat, Sep 02, 2023September 01, 2023 03:32 IST
ISRO released preliminary data from instruments called RAMBHA and ILSA, both installed on the lander module, and another called APXS which is on the rover. It had earlier released data from instruments called ChaSTE and LIBS.
Fri, Sep 01, 2023August 30, 2023 07:30 IST
By Tuesday morning, the country had received 160 mm of rain this month. Never has the rainfall figure for August been less than 190 mm. What are the likely implications? What is the outlook for September?
Thu, Aug 31, 2023August 29, 2023 21:22 IST
The presence of oxygen, calcium and iron has also been detected, the space agency informed
Fri, Sep 01, 2023August 29, 2023 07:00 IST
ChaSTE is meant to study the heat conductivity of the Moon’s surface and measure the differences in temperatures at different points on and below the surface, with the overall objective of creating a thermal profile of the Moon.
Wed, Aug 30, 2023August 25, 2023 20:57 IST
The Chandrayaan-3 lander reached the lunar surface on Wednesday, making India the fourth country to achieve soft-landing on the Moon. India also became the first country to land near the South pole of the Moon.
Sat, Aug 26, 2023August 24, 2023 20:51 IST
ISRO released a video, taken by the Horizontal Velocity Camera on the lander, showing the last two minutes of the descent, just ahead of the touchdown on Wednesday evening.
Fri, Aug 25, 2023August 24, 2023 17:49 IST
K Kasturirangan, during whose tenure as ISRO chairman the Moon missions were planned, speaks about the past and the future of India's moonshot moment.
Fri, Aug 25, 2023August 24, 2023 04:33 IST
Kasturirangan, during whose tenure as ISRO chairman the Moon missions were planned, said space capabilities would be increasingly important in international affairs, and Chandrayaan-3 ensures India would be part of all decision-making process in matters related to space.
Mon, Aug 28, 2023August 24, 2023 04:30 IST
When the Chandrayaan-2 project was being executed, Sivan had repeatedly talked about the “15 minutes of terror” referring to the heightened risks in the last phase of landing on the Moon. He said those “15 minutes of terror” were applicable in the case of Chandrayaan-3 as well.
Thu, Aug 24, 2023August 24, 2023 04:00 IST
As of now, ISRO is preparing for one more lunar mission, this one in collaboration with Japanese space agency, JAXA. This mission, called LUPEX, or Lunar Polar Exploration, is slated for 2024-25. But there would be more in the Chandrayaan series as well.
Thu, Aug 24, 2023August 24, 2023 03:26 IST
In a feat hailed by space agencies and leaders from across the world, India became only the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the Moon -- after the erstwhile Soviet Union, United States and China — just three days after a failed attempt by Russia’s Luna-25 mission.
Thu, Aug 24, 2023August 23, 2023 11:44 IST
The Indian Express interviewed three prominent entrepreneurs in space technologies to understand what Chandrayaan-3 means for their own future, and how do they intend to contribute to ISRO’s space programme in the future.
Wed, Aug 23, 2023August 23, 2023 04:15 IST
Unlike some countries that have a whole series of lunar missions planned, India has not yet announced follow-up missions to Chandrayaan-3.
Thu, Aug 24, 2023August 22, 2023 21:06 IST
If all goes to plan, the lunar landing will be the finest moment till date of the Indian space programme, ending the disappointment of the crash-landing of the Chandrayaan-2 lander four years ago.
Wed, Aug 23, 2023August 20, 2023 15:24 IST
Spacecraft had touched down on the Moon in the 1960s. Why then are modern space agencies struggling with soft-landing?
Tue, Aug 22, 2023August 20, 2023 14:47 IST
On Sunday afternoon, Roscosmos announced that Luna-25 had crash-landed on the Moon’s surface in a disappointing end to the mission. Meanwhile, Chandrayaan-3 is readying for its descent at around 5.45 pm IST on Wednesday.
Wed, Aug 23, 2023