Sunita Williams Retires from NASA: After spending nearly three decades pushing the boundaries of human spaceflight, Sunita Williams has officially retired from NASA, bringing to a close one of the most accomplished astronaut careers in modern history. Effective December 27, 2025, Williams steps away after 27 years of service, three missions to the International Space…
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,…