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The success of manned mission into Earth’s orbit is seen as the beginning of affordable Space programme to Moon and further putting the Mars mission within human travel grasp.

A fresh western disturbance and southwesterly winds along with the formation of a low pressure system in the Arabian Sea will bring moisture to Delhi-NCR.

Top US leadership including President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and thousands of curious Americans had gathered to watch the launch live on a bright Sunday afternoon. 

With big businesses taking a keen interest in its commercial use, the space race is set to get more heated in the future

SpaceX and NASA managers monitored the weather not just at Kennedy Space Center, but all the way up the Eastern Seaboard and across the North Atlantic to Ireland.

The launch pad is the same one used by NASA`s final space shuttle flight, piloted by Hurley, in 2011.

Skymet Weather CEO Jatin Singh said all conditions such as rainfall, Outwave Longwave Radiation (OLR) value and wind speed have been met to declare the arrival of the southwest monsoon over Kerala.

The locusts had invaded the district thrice in the past one week, but they have now scattered and their density shrinked due to continuous spraying of insecticides, said District Deputy Director, Agriculture, Kamal Katiyar.

Meanwhile, the IMD has predicted rainfall along with a dust storm and thunder storm in the national capital and neighbouring areas.

SpaceX's latest Starship prototype exploded just during a ground test in south Texas on Friday (May 29,2020), erupting in a dramatic fireball. The explosion comes as the company is counting down to another major launch on a different rocket. However, there was no immediate indication of injuries. 

A lunar eclipse only occurs during a Full Moon. The Earth, Moon and the Sun form a straight line during the lunar eclipse, with the Earth partially or completely hiding the Moon from the Sun.

In just two months, desert locusts have multiplied and have been causing problems for many farmers as locust swarms are destroying crops on their way.

Warnings of probable locust attack in Delhi have been issued by Locust Warning Organisation (LWO) which is a body under the Ministry of Agriculture.

The searchers conducted geotechnical, hydraulic and satellite imagery studies and developed a dredging methodology with minimum impact on the lake ecosystem.

The launch was called off on Wednesday with less than 17 minutes to go in the countdown because of thunderclouds and the danger of lightning.

After swarms of immature locusts have wreaked havoc across at least 13 districts in four states in India, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare has stepped in with a new plan that includes using aircraft and drones.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its onset date forecast on May 15, had said the monsoon is likely to hit the southern state on June 5, four days after its normal onset date.

In a study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, Ray and her team observed mutations in SARS-CoV-2 samples isolated from Indian patients.

The launch of two NASA astronauts on a SpaceX rocket, the rocket company founded by the billionaire Elon Musk, will mark a historic beginning of a period of human spaceflight stretching beyond national space agencies.

Heatwave, in its first spell this year, has affected five states and has caused severe to very severe conditions making the summer of 2020 somewhat unusual than it really is.

IMD’s forecast for the next few days highlighted temperature’s falling tendency till at least June 1 before it starts rising again.

The spacecraft designed, built and owned spacecraft by SpaceX was set to blast off in the afternoon for the International Space Station, ushering in a new era in commercial spaceflight.

Uttarakhand forest fire has come in as a fresh bad news, a trend in the year 2020 which is already hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic.

Uttarakhand forest fire has come in as a fresh bad news, a trend in the year 2020 which is already hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The Demo-2 mission is the latest mission to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station on SpaceX's human spaceflight system-- Dragon.

On the progress of the southwest monsoon, the national weather forecasting centre of the IMD said it has further advanced into some more parts of south Bay of Bengal.

The last time astronauts launched from Florida was on NASA's final space shuttle flight in July 2011. Hurley was the pilot of that mission.

Delhi recorded its hottest day in 18 years as the mercury touched 46 degrees Celsius on Tuesday. Most parts of north India are reeling under sweltering heatwave.

Aurélie, who is also a senior research fellow at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) compared it with the Dead Sea Fault (DSF) in the Middle East and San Andreas Fault in California (US).

The people sweltered under a scorching heat wave as most places recorded their maximum temperatures six notches above normal and the mercury soared to 47.6 degrees Celsius in Palam area. 

It said Allahabad continued to be the hottest place in the state, recording a maximum of 47.1 degrees Celsius.Day temperatures rose appreciably over Gorakhpur and Faizabad divisions, it said.

The IMD said rainfall is likely at most places, with heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected at isolated places. A few isolated will also receive extremely heavy falls, it added.

The shift would inevitably change the way world navigates itself using not just ships, maps, smart phones but a plethora of tools to map journey of life.

Virgin Orbit declared on its Twitter timeline that a team is already working extensively on the data obtained from the first unsuccessful attempt to launch the rocket.

Virgin Orbit says it has dozens of missions on the books for customers including the US Space Force and the Royal Air Force.

Astronomers also believe that a supermassive black hole with a mass of 4 million suns is located at the center of Sagittarius A*. 

They said rain and thunderstorm are "very likely" at isolated places over East UP on Wednesday.

The Health department of the state is actively working with several awareness initiatives so that people's participation is leveraged during the Kerala monsoon months.

The international space agency said that it is looking for people who are 30-55 years old and are proficient in both Russian and English languages.

While heat wave conditions prevail across the northern parts of India, it may be recalled that scientists had warned earlier at the beginning of the year that 2020 would rank among the 10 warmest years on record based on the weather conditions of the first two months of the year.

There were several videos on social media platforms where people sighted it for over 20 seconds.

On May 26, 2020, the temperature in the national capital is likely to touch 46 degrees Celsius with heatwave to severe heatwave conditions.

The four cosmonauts shortlisted for Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission, have resumed their training in Russia after it was put on hold due to Covid-19 scare.

With a vaccine still a long distance away, efforts to repurpose old medications used for other ailments provide hope of an early counter to Covid-19, say scientists, placing the antiviral remdesivir on top of the list of possible contenders.

Roscosmos also tweeted a picture of the Indian flag-bearing cosmonauts wearing a spacesuit. Four fighter pilots from the Indian Air Force are currently training in Moscow, and are likely to be possible candidates for the Gaganyaan program.

NASA astronauts have not launched from the U.S. since the space shuttle program ended in 2011. It will be the first attempt by a private company to fly astronauts to orbit for the space agency.

UNICEF said it was also very concerned that the COVID-19 could deepen the humanitarian consequences of Cyclone Amphan in both countries. Evacuees who have moved to crowded temporary shelters would be especially vulnerable to the spread of respiratory diseases like COVID-19, as well as other infections.

Although electricity and the mobile connection was restored in some parts of the state capital and North and South 24 Parganas, two worst-hit districts, large parts of the city continued to remain without electricity as power poles had been blown away and communication lines snapped.

Cyclone Amphan tracker updates: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is monitoring the situation from Nabanna, the state secretariat, said that at least 72 people lost their lives.

Cyclone Amphan tracker live updates: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is monitoring the situation from Nabanna, the state secretariat, said that at least 72 people lost their lives.