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Blue Origin is halting its New Shepard space tourism flights for at least two years. The company is reallocating resources to accelerate its human moon-landing capabilities for NASA’s lunar program. This decision impacts the reusable rocket system that has flown 98 passengers to the edge of space, shifting focus to America’s lunar ambitions. Amazon founder…
Elon Musk confirms ‘SpaceX and xAI are now one company’; says future of AI is in space (Image Source – X/ xAI) SpaceX has moved to absorb Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI, bringing the smaller company and its Grok chatbot under the aerospace firm’s control. The deal continues Musk’s broader effort to align his…
BENGALURU: The Department of Space (DoS) has been allocated Rs 13,705.6 crore for 2026-27, marking a steady rise over the revised estimate of Rs 12,448.6 crore in the current fiscal. The increase is driven largely by higher capital expenditure, signalling a push towards new launch vehicles, satellite infrastructure and upcoming exploration missions .Of the total…
For years, space tourism felt like a novelty that just kept growing. A quick ride up. A few minutes of weightlessness. A view of Earth that only a handful of humans had ever seen. Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket became part of that story, lifting celebrities, billionaires, and guests to the edge of space and…
NASA uses AI to scan 35 years of Hubble data and finds space mysteries humans missed (Image source: NASA) For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been quietly building one of the largest visual records of the universe ever assembled. The problem is scale. With nearly 100 million small image cutouts stored…
BENGALURU: India was to ring in its 2026 space calendar with a launch that quietly captured the direction the sector is now taking. The PSLV-C62, carrying a clear private sector imprint, however, failed on Jan 12. Notwithstanding that setback, 2026 is still shaping up as the year when India’s private sector can show results in…
Ahead of the Union Budget, India’s fast-growing private space industry has called on the government to step up public procurement of space products and services and formally recognise space assets as critical infrastructure to unlock financing and accelerate scale-up.Industry leaders said assured government demand, along with easier access to long-term capital, is essential for domestic…
Scientists warn! Earth’s darkness is at risk from thousands of space mirrors (AI-generated) The idea sounds simple enough when reduced to its basics. Put reflective surfaces in orbit and redirect sunlight back to Earth after sunset. A California startup plans to test that idea with a small satellite launch. It is presented as a way…
NEW DELHI: “When I reached International Space Station for the first time, the first thing I did was to locate India (on Earth), from where my father belonged to, and Slovenia, from where my mother belonged,” said Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams in Delhi on Tuesday — the only female astronaut who has set the…
When results from Maharashtra’s long-delayed civic polls came on January 16, it became clear that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has made it to the top once again. The BJP swept 1,425 of 2,869 seats across 29 municipal corporations, a strike rate of nearly 50%. In Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a Shiv Sena citadel…
