What if a glimpse 12 billion light-years away shattered everything we knew about galaxy birth, revealing a structured spiral thriving in the universe’s chaotic infancy? That’s the bombshell of Alaknanda Spiral Galaxy discovery on December 3, 2025, by Pune’s NCRA team – a Milky Way doppelganger formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. …
Envision a robotic arm scooping Moon dust near the south pole, docking in lunar orbit, and hurtling 3kg of regolith back to Earth – Chandrayaan-4 mission details, approved September 2024, promise exactly that in 2028. But amid ISRO’s triumphant blueprint, a stark query haunts: Why must docking delays via SPADEX test our resolve, risking Viksit…
Picture this: A flawless GSLV-F16 thunders skyward from Sriharikota on July 30, 2025, birthing the world’s most advanced Earth-observing sentinel – NISAR Satellite Launch, a Indo-US symphony that peers through clouds to map our planet’s pulse. But amid cheers for 12-day polar orbits delivering microwave miracles, a bold question lingers: Why did five years of…
Chandrayaan-4 Mission Updates: India is poised to make another giant leap in its space exploration journey with Chandrayaan-4, an upcoming mission by ISRO that aims not just to land on the Moon, but to bring back lunar samples to Earth. This mission marks a bold step in India’s lunar ambitions, building on the success of…
NASA’s SunRISE Mission 2026: Scheduled for launch in mid-2026, NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission marks a groundbreaking advance in heliophysics. By deploying six CubeSats working as a distributed radio telescope, SunRISE will study solar radio bursts and map the Sun’s magnetic activity from the outer corona into interplanetary space. Its findings are…
Multipolar Space Race 2026: The year 2026 is shaping up as a landmark in the increasingly diverse global space race, spotlighting commercial ventures and ambitious lunar explorations. California-based Vast aims to launch Haven-1, the world’s first commercial space station, ushering in a new era of private sector presence in low Earth orbit. Simultaneously, China plans…
Gaganyaan’s 2026 Unmanned Flights: India’s ambitious Gaganyaan mission is gearing up for unmanned flights scheduled in 2026, marking a vital milestone before the historic human spaceflight planned for 2027. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has completed over 80,000 rigorous tests, developed advanced life-support, crew safety technologies, and established training and ground infrastructure to ensure…
Small-Sat Boom: According to BryceTech’s Smallsats by the Numbers 2024, 2,860 small satellites (≤1,200 kg) were launched in 2023, making up 97% of all spacecraft launched that year. Over 2014–2023, smallsats represented 93% of spacecraft by count and 41% of upmass. Market forecasts see the global small-satellite segment growing from about USD 6.0 billion in…
Gaganyaan G1 Launching: ISRO says the first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission (G1) is on track for early December 2025, with ~90% of work complete and Vyommitra—the agency’s half-humanoid—flying to help validate crew-system performance. Over the past few months, teams have closed out “last-mile” tasks: a full-stack parachute deceleration demonstration (IADT-01), human-rating of the CE-20 cryogenic engine,…
ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission: India’s human spaceflight ambitions just got one step closer to reality. On November 3, 2025, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully conducted a crucial Integrated Main Parachute Airdrop Test (IMAT) for the ambitious Gaganyaan mission. Conducted at the Babina Field Firing Range in Jhansi, this test aimed to validate the deployment…