3 March : The United States is poised to launch on Wednesday the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth from high in space.
The launch window for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) will open at 0617 pm (2317 GMT) on Thursday and close an hour later, US space agency NASA said in a statement.
A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometres) above the Earth’s surface.

From orbit, GOES-P will collect and send …

1 March : Following the huge earthquake in Chile, Google has activated an online “person finder” tool toallow relatives and friends to find their loved ones.The “Person Finder: Chile Earthquake” from the California-based Internet giant is located at Chilepersonfinder.appspot.com

It offers users the choice of using it in English and Spanish.
It asks users “What is your situation?” and gives them the choice between “I’m looking for someone” and “I have information about someone.”Users can then search records by name or input information about someone.
As of 1:15 pm (local time) on …

CHANDIGARH- February 27, 2010: Panjab University celebrated Science Day to commemorate  the illustrious scientist Sir C.V. Raman, a Nobel Laureate in Physics, for inventing ‘The Raman Effect’ at P.U. Campus here today.  The celebration was held under the name of “BIO-NOCK 2010” at the Mathematics Auditorium, P.U.  The function was inaugurated by Prof. R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor.  He exhorted the students to inculcate and imbibe Science Culture in their routine lives.  He further mentioned that the Panjab University has been popularizing science from 1991.  His explicit address dwelt upon the myriad …

13 Feb ; NASA has launched a probe to study the sun and its dynamic behaviour “in greater detail than ever before” on Thursday in washington.
A rocket ‘Atlas V’ carrying the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was Thursday launched from Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
The SDO is the first-of-its-kind spacecraft designed to study the sun, the agency said.
It is expected to unlock the processes inside the sun, on its surface, and in its corona that result in solar variability which when experienced on Earth, is called space weather.
The five-year mission will disclose the …

5 Feb : NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) want to be part of Chandrayaan-II, the next Indian mission to Moon, by sending their instruments, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said in Bangalore on Thursday.
Replying to a query whether NASA and ESA have sent proposals to ISRO to be part of Chandrayaan-II, expected in 2012 or 2013, by sending their instruments, Radhakrishnan told reporters, “They are all there actually (they have sent proposals).”
NASA and ESA are among “several candidates” who have evinced interest in Chandrayaan-2, he said.
“There is discussion going on …