Space Bound!
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Hi folks!
I am Srinivas Laxman and by way of a brief intro I am a space addict---anything to do with rockets and spacecrafts fascinate me. To believe what I am saying come to my mini space museum in Mumbai and have a look at the numerous space posters and models of rockets and spacecraft.
I am happy to launch this space-themed website hopefully to trigger an interest about the fascinating world of space exploration particularly among the younger generation. That is why this website is called spacebound.
Space Updates
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* After ``The Martians,'' comes another possible blockbuster, `` Sky Line.'' No it is not about Mumbai's skyscrapers. It is a 74-minute film about a group of scientists and entrepreneurs who are planning to build a space elevator to space. The film, set for release on November 20, follows the team as they attempt to turn a present dream into a distant reality.
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Mars moon Phobos is slowly falling apart: Nasa.
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A test version of ESA's service module for Nasa's Orion spacecraft has arrived in the US for testing: ESA
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Japan's Venus-bound spacecraft, Akatsuki, achieved orbit on December 7 2015 after failing to do so almost to the day five years ago following the failure of its main engine.
New Horizons Returns First, Best Images Of Pluto: Nasa.
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India to launch a mission carrying six Singapore satellites on December 16 at 6 p.m. (IST). It wll have two firsts---it will publicly announce the space debris management system and second it will restart and cut off the fourth stage of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) after launch keeping in view future missions: Isro.
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UK's first official astronaut Tim Peake was launched to the ISS on December 15 2015 by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonour cosmodrome.
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ISRO SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED SIX SINGAPORE SATELLITES ON DECEMBER 16 2015. IT WAS THE THIRD TIME INDIA WAS LAUNCHING SATELLITES FOR SINGAPORE TAKING THE TOTAL NUMBER TO SIX.
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Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope will be launched by Arianespace's Ariane-5 rocket in October 2018: European Space Agency.
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Nasa's Curiosity rover has found silica in some parts of the Red Planet which has puzzled scientists: Nasa.
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In a major setback to the US space programme, Nasa has announced that it has suspended the March 2016 launch of the InSight mission to Mars following an unsuccessful attempt to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload. Nasa.
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US company Space X successfully landed an unmanned rocket upright after sending 11 satellites into orbit. The flight on December 21 2015 marks the return of flight of Space X after the company's Falcon-9 rocket broke apart into flames in June 2015. BBC.
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Nasa's Juno mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary when it was 793 million kms from the sun: Nasa.
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Jason-3, has been launched to monitor global sea level rise. It is an US-European oceanography satellite mission with Nasa participation: Nasa.
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India successfully launches fifth navigation satellite of a seven-member constellation IRNSS-IE The remaining two will be launched in February and March: Isro.
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Europe's next mission to Mars, ExoMars--2016, is provisionally slated for launch on March 14 2016: ESA.
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Nasa has announced that it will launch a powerful space observatory called WFIRST in 2020: Nasa.
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Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos' (Russian Space Agency) Mikhail Kornienko, touched down at Kazakhstan at about 10 am (IST) on March 2 2016 after a historic one-year mission on board the International Space Station laying the ground work for a manned mission to Mars.
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ExoMars 2016, a joint European -Russian mission to the Red Planet has been launched.
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Recent Stories
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STORIES IN THE TIMES OF INDIA
ISRO TO UP SATELLITE LAUNCHES NOVEMBER 18 2015.
DIRECTOR OF TIFR LAUDS INDIGENOUS SPACE GADGET DECEMBER 5 2015
LOOK OUT FOR CELESTIAL FIREWORKS LATE TONIGHT DECEMBER 14 2015.
IN A FIRST ISRO REVEALS SPACE DEBRIS MGMT PLAN FOR DEC 16 LAUNCH. DECEMBER 14 2015
TECHNICAL GLITCH DELAYS MARS PROJECT BY 2 YEARS DECEMBER 25.2015
TALK ON SPACE MISSIONS, CONTESTS ENTHUSE CROWDS AT IIT TECHFES---JOINTLY WITH SAIBA AHUJA DECEMBER 27 2015.
ISRO STARTS CAMPAIGN TO ATTRACT YOUTH-JANUARY 3 2016--TOI PUNE.
LIFE-SIZE ASTROSAT REPICA TOO BIG FOR TIFR AND NEHRU PLANETARIUM----JANUARY 10 2016.
AFTER SPACE, MOM TO WIN HEARTS AT SEA--JANUARY 28 2016.
SPACE X PLANS MARS MISSION BY 2025--FEBRUARY 3 2025.
TIFR PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTION---FEBRUARY 13 2016.
PRANK TWEET SENDS MANY LOOKING FOR TRUTH----FEBRUARY 13 2016.
PLAN TO LARGELY PRIVATISE PSLV OPERATIONS BY 2020: ISRO CHIEF---FEBRUARY 15 2016.
ISRO STALL TAKES VISITORS ON A CELESTIAL TRIP----FEBRUARY 17.
LANKA ONLY SIGNEE FOR SAARC SAT PLAN--FEBRUARY 19 2016
TO HELP SINGAPORE SEND MAN TO SPACE TIFR SENT 3 RATS TO STRATOSPHERE.----FEBRUARY 21 2016.
`LIGO IN INDIA TO BE OPERATIONAL IN 2022-23'--FEBRUARY 22 2016.
SPACE OUTLAY HIKED, ISRO AIMS FOR THE STARS-MARCH 2 2016.
NEED TO GET YOUTH EXCITED ABOUT MANGALYAAN, SAYS EX - ISRO CHIEF--MARCH 5 2016.
INDIA TO LAUNCH ITS 6TH NAVIGATION SATELLITE
MARCH 8 2016
AFTER MOM INDIA LEAVES
MARK ON EUROPE'S MARS
MISSION MARCH 16 2016
PARLE COLLEGE ON SIXTH
NASA TRIP MARCH 26 2016
MUMBAIKARS GO ON `MISSION
TO MARS' FROM NEHRU CENTRE
MARCH 27 2016
DATA SAFETY CONCERNS KEEP
PAK AWAY FROM SAARC
SATELLITE--MARCH 29 2016
3 INDIAN STUDENTS AIM FOR THE
MOON, GET THERE MARCH 31
2016.