A huge chunk of ice that apparently fell from the sky in a West Bengal village caused a flutter in the area even as weather experts dismissed such phenomenon as absurd.
The incident occurred Friday evening, January 27th , in Katnabil village in Burdwan district , about 100 km from Calcutta
Wi...
Today, January 29, 2006 is the first day of the Chinese new year.
The New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children car...
A Proton-K Auxiliary Motor that was launched on the 24 June 2005, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome LC200/39 for the Express AM-3 mission, will re-enter the Earths...
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G Madhavan Nair has said that the Insat-4A will be launched on 14 November from the second launch pad at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Media reports indicate that Insat-4A will facilitate Direct To Home (DTH) service of the Indian Bro...
Mystery still surrounds a bang that shook Spalding and the surrounding area.
The noise was heard at 2.19pm on Wednesday, January 17, 2006, causing buildings to shake and the ground to vibrate.
But Lincolnshire Police, Lincolnshire Ambulance Service and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue receive...
A possible New Dwarf Nova in Cetus was discovered by Bogumil Pilecki, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory on Jan 20.121 UT at visual magnitude 12.08.
Position(2000): RA = 02:33:21.398 +/- 0.07 Dec = -10...
A Molniya 1 Satellite launched on the 26 December 1986 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the Molniya 1-70 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 1st February, 2006@ 18:17 UTC ± 38 hours.
Fo...
A Delta II Stage 2 Rocket Body launched on the 26 September, 2005 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station SLC-17 on the USA 183 Mission is predict...
Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station
35°12'49.07"N 35°12'15.48"N
The Katsuura Tracking and Communication Station's facilities include four parabolic antennas, tracking and control build...
Two new studies suggest that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface is increasing...
Previous work had found the opposite trend, leading to a popular theory known as "global dimming".
But using two different methods involving ground monitoring stations and satellite data, t...
The US space agency NASA may choose the Northern Cape, in Africa as a site for an array of telescopes and antennae that communicate with spacecraft.
Nasa was considering establishing the Deep Space Network Array (DSNA) to replace the existing Deep Space Network (DSN).
"There were disc...
Beyond the 1986 Challenger explosion and the February 2003 Columbia accident, NASA has had close calls on several missions. NASA identified 12 of the near-misses this spring to use as teaching tools for shuttle managers.
They were: December 1983, Columbia: Dual shuttle...
A magnitude 15.0 Supernova, 2006N, was discovered on the 21st January, 2006, by Mark Armstrong in the galaxy MCG +11-8-12, in the constellation Camelopardalis (z = 0.014277)
It is located 0".4 east and 0".1 north of the centre.
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The Image satellite launched in 2000 to study the Earth's magnetic field has successfully completed its mission. It made observations until last month when engineers discovered that its power supply had failed.
Image - short for Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Aural Global Exploration - was the...
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