The purpose of the satellite is to provide mobile communication applications in S-band in five spot beams and C-band in one beam during its 10-year lifespan.
The GSAT-6A satellite was successfully put into orbit around 17 minutes after the rocket's liftoff.
Hughes worked on overhauling his rocket in his garage for months before the launch on Saturday, which was given the go-ahead by Albert Okura, who owns Amboy.
The original targeted date for the launch was kept on April 23. However, as the ongoing tests for the lunar mission will take 20 more days, the date could not be met.
Google Doodle has dedicated a Doodle in the honour of Japanese scientist Katsuko Saruhashi on her 98th birth anniversary. The renowned scientist was born in Tokyo in 1920. Dr Sahushahi is known for groundbreaking research as a geochemist.
Though chances are there that a lot of living things on the planet might be destroyed due to this but forward-thinking astrophysicists have a plan to deal with this.
The physicist’s final work was published alongside his co-author, Professor Thomas Hertog, of KU Leuven University in Belgium.
In 1963, Hawking was given two years to live but and yet he became one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Albert Einstein.
At an event in Texas, Musk said that if there is a world war III, there is “some probability” that there will be another Dark Ages.
If the April launch of the Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, is not possible, then the ISRO will aim for a launch by October.
A US-based organisation has asked the Indian government to use modern technology to tackle social inequalities in India.
In 2016, China admitted that it had lost control of Tiangong-1 and would be unable to perform a controlled re-entry.
Hawking's theory lies upon the assumption that the universe has no boundaries.
The planned network will enable PTScientists' lander to broadcast a live video from lunar surface to the audience on earth and facilitate the communication among the lander and rovers.
The Soyuz spacecraft with NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 8.31 a.m. in Kazakhstan, NASA said.
"First two Starlink demo satellites, called Tintin A & B, deployed and communicating to Earth stations," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted.
Google AI scans retinas to work out your blood pressure, age and smoking habits and predict the major risk of heart diseases.
In a surprising research, scientists at the University of Hawaii and Germany’s Sonneberg Observatory have warned that aliens could destroy Earth, and that too with a single message.
The intestine chip may help doctors to test various drug options on the chip, without putting patients through drug treatments that may be costly.
People can watch the live streaming at the YouTube channel of NASA.
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