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NEW DELHI : At the COP27 Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November, UN Secretary-General António Guterres painted a sobering picture of the global climate trajectory. “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator," he said in a stark warning about the perilous journey ahead. While nations are embracing the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) defined at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil in 2012, corporations are also trying out sustainability initiatives in the ESG (environment, social and governance) space.

aliens exist? Will they respond to the signals sent to them 40 years ago? Some astronomers believe that they may get the answer from aliens on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.

The ISRO has revealed two images obtained from the... moreThe ISRO has revealed two images obtained from the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft.

Minerals containing rare earth elements have become some of the most prized resources globally as countries rush to develop semiconductor industries and transition to clean energy. The Indian government, too, is looking to increase domestic production of rare earth elements. Here’s a look at the state of the country’s rare earth reserves.

volcano erupted on a comet, spewing the cold magma, that was thrown into space. The comet looked like a sprouted horn, according to reports.

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Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has completed its orbits around the earth and is now heading towards the moon after it was successfully injected into the translunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Tuesday. «Chandrayaan-3 completes its orbits around the earth and heads towards the moon. A successful perigee-firing performed at ISTRAC, ISRO has injected the spacecraft into the translunar orbit,» it said. «Next stop: the Moon. As it arrives at the moon, the Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) is planned for August 5, 2023,» ISRO added in a tweet. Translunar orbit injection is the process whereby the moon-bound spacecraft has escaped from orbiting the earth and is now following a path that would take it to the vicinity of the Moon. In other words, the spacecraft began its journey towards the Moon on Tuesday, after leaving the Earth's orbit following the TLI maneuver, which placed it on 'lunar transfer trajectory'.

Also Read: ‘NASA-ISRO collaboration is a sign of times to come,’ says EAM S Jaishankar Earlier on July 30, at the SemiconIndia Conference 2023, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar affirmed that the collaboration between India and the US is expanding to encompass new initiatives in various domains. As reported by ANI, EAM S Jaishankar said, "This collaboration today (between India and the US) extends to new initiatives in additional domains and can be expected to grow steadily in the times to come.

European Space Agency's (ESA) Aeolus has become the first ever dead satellite that was assisted back to earth in a bid to avoid space debris. The Aeolus spacecraft, also known as ESA's wind mission, was guided to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, after running out of fuel by the mission officials at ESA. It landed in Antarctica on July 28.

ALSO READ: ISRO's PSLV-C56 to launch on 30 July with six co-passenger satellites. Details here "PSLV-C56/DS-SAR Mission: The countdown leading to the launch on July 30, 2023, at 06.30 hrs has commenced," ISRO said in an update on Saturday.

Having exceeded its planned life in orbit, the 1360-kg Aeolus satellite is running out of fuel. Having ensured that enough fuel remains for a few final manoeuvres, ESA’s spacecraft operators will bring Aeolus back towards earth's atmosphere for its inevitable demise.

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is expected to perform its fifth and final Earth-bound orbit-raising maneuver today, positioning itself for lunar insertion. It will then transfer to an Earth-to-Moon trajectory, with the Moon's gravity eventually pulling it into lunar orbit. Speaking about the mission, space minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday, “Chandrayaan-3 will enter the next (Earth) orbit tomorrow.

Elon Musk founded Space X's Falcon 9 rocket has punched a hole in the Ionosphere, a part of the 10,000 kilometres Atmosphere. One Falcon 9 Rocket launched 22 Starlink satellites to orbit 23 July, Sunday, and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea, according to reports.  Elon Musk founded Space X's Falcon 9 Rocket is a reusable, two-stage rocket for ‘reliable and safe transport’ of people and payloads into Earth orbit and beyond,  as explained in the company website. The Falcon 9 rocket has conducted 240 launches and 198 landings.

Nasa said. The asteroid 2023 NT1 was first spotted on July 15, two days after it made its closest approach to Earth on July 13. In other words, by the time telescopes and scientists were first made aware of the rock’s existence, we were already in its rearview mirror.

diamond industry. Surat has achieved this record where Earth's 90% of the diamonds are cut. According to a report by CNN, the newly-opened Surat Diamond Bourse consists of 15-storey complex, built across more than 35 acres of land.

Final landing planned on August 23 will be tracked by Isro’s Bengaluru station; success will make India only the fourth nation to soft-land on the lunar surfaceChandrayaan-3, India’s third Moon mission, has an added ‘desi’ element to it. “Unlike Chandrayaan-2, when the landing was tracked through a Madrid (NASA-JPL) station, this time we will track the lander from our Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (Istrac) station in Bengaluru,” said a senior scientist. “As per calculations now, Vikram should land on Moon at 5. 47pm on August 23; it may change due to variation

most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday. This strange world, which is more than 260 light-years from Earth, reflects 80 per cent of the light from its host star, according to new observations from Europe's exoplanet-probing Cheops space telescope. That makes it the first exoplanet comparably shiny as Venus, which is the brightest object in our night sky other than the Moon. First discovered in 2020, the Neptune-sized planet called LTT9779b orbits its star in just 19 hours. Because it is so close, the side of the planet facing its star is a sizzling 2,000 degrees Celsius, which is considered far too hot for clouds to form. Yet LTT9779b seems to have them. «It was really a puzzle,» said Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at France's Cote d'Azur Observatory and co-author of a new study in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The researchers then «realised we should think about this cloud formation in the same way as condensation forming in a bathroom after a hot shower,» he said in a statement. Like running hot water steams up a bathroom, a scorching stream of metal and silicate — the stuff of which glass is made — oversaturated LTT9779b's atmosphere until metallic clouds formed, he said.

Economic Times has reported.  The Indian Space Policy 2023 was approved by a Cabinet Committee helmed by PM Modi. The policy delineates responsibility to ISRO, New Space India Limited (NSIL, a space sector PSU), and IN-SPACe.

Space.com. These disturbances can lead to adverse effects on Earth like disruption in power and communication facilities along with radio blackouts and GPS services getting affected. Space weather scientist Dr.

Sweltering heat is blanketing much of the planet, and one unofficial analysis says the past seven days have been the hottest week on record, the latest grim milestone in a series of climate-change-driven extremes. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distanced itself from the designation, compiled by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition. That metric showed that Earth’s average temperature on Wednesday remained at an unofficial record high, 62.9 degrees Fahrenheit (17.18 degrees Celsius), set the day before.

temperatures have shattered all-time records this week, highlighting the alarming consequences of escalating greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. For the third day in a row, Earth’s average temperature remained at a record high on Wednesday. According to the Climate Reanalyzer tool developed by the University of Maine, the average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius (62.9 degrees Fahrenheit), matching the record set the previous day.