In a recent interaction with IANS in Bengaluru, S.Rakesh, Chairman-cum- Managing Director, Antrix Corporation said the low-cost small rocket requires a dedicated launch pad with a simple vertical launch mechanism.
"We have no plans to test fly any living being like live animals in our two test flights before sending human beings into the space in our rocket," K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told IANS.
The tourist will fly in the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) being designed to carry people into deep space, the Elon Musk led company said in a tweet.
"We're working incredibly hard not only to make sure Orion's ready to take our astronauts farther than we've been before, but to make sure they come home safely," Orion Programme Manager Mark Kirasich, said in a statement.
The PSLV rocket will blast off from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
The satellite will provide critical observations of how ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice are changing, leading to insights into how those changes impact people where they live.
Researchers are also applying the successful machine-learning algorithm to find new kinds of signals that could be coming from extraterrestrial civilisations.
The team divided the hazards into five classifications -- radiation; isolation and confinement; distance from Earth; gravity (or lack thereof); and hostile or closed environments
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) -- a global group of astronomy experts -- established that to be called a planet, it is required to "clear" its orbit, or in other words, be the largest gravitational force in its orbit.
The exoplanet 'Wolf 503b' is in the Virgo constellation and it orbits its star every six days and is thus very close to it, about 10 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
The rover surveyed its surroundings after collecting a new rock sample on August 9.
Lunar swirls resemble bright, snaky clouds painted on the Moon's dark surface. The most famous, called Reiner Gamma, is about 40 miles long and popular with backyard astronomers.
The spacecraft is likely to run out of a key fuel knwon as hydrazine -- which keeps it oriented and in communication with Earth -- between September and October.
The rocket launched on Friday carried the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment (ASPIRE) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
"After being roused from sleep mode, the spacecraft's configuration has been modified due to unusual behaviour exhibited by one of the thrusters," NASA said in a statement on Thursday.
The ISRO is working on building smaller launch vehicles that will carry satellites weighing 500 to 700 kg to up to 500 kilometres from the earth's surface, its chief, K Sivan, said Thursday.
FOXSI (Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager) is a sounding rocket mission and it will take its third flight from New Mexico on September 7.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy.
The two-member team of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, who conducted the study, found 626 microplastic particles in the tested samples.
Obesity has been linked to factors such as genetics, diet, physical activity and the environment.
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