India's strategic NAVIC (Navigation with Indian Constellation) series of satellites, built and maintained by the space agency ISRO, are nearly defunct, with only a bare minimum of four among 11 satellites fulfilling their core purpose, government data shows. Of these four operational satellites, one (IRNSS-1B) has already exceeded its planned life of 10 years and could stop functioning anytime, while another (IRNSS-1F) has less than a year to complete its decade in service and has suffered partial equipment failure. NAVIC is India's own version of America's GPS, Russia's GLONASS, China's Beidou and Europe's Galileo systems.
Jul 26, 2025
NASA Welcomes Senegal as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory
Senegal signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony hosted by NASA at the agency's headquarters in Washington, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space for all humanity.
Director General of the Senegalese space agency (ASES) Maram Kairé signed the Artemis Accords on behalf of Senegal. Jonathan Pratt, senior bureau official for African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and Abdoul Wahab Haidara, ambassador of Senegal to the United States, also participated in the event.
Jul 25, 2025
NASA launches TRACERS Mission to Study How Earth Fights Space Storms
NASA officially launched the TRACERS mission (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) which will study the magnetic reconnection- an energy burst that occurs when the Sun's magnetic field interacts with Earth's magnetic shield. This will help in understanding on how space weather affects our planet.
The TRACERS satellites lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The mission includes two satellites flying just 10 seconds apart to take over 3,000 measurements in one year. Their job is to closely study magnetic activity in a region near Earth's North Pole called the polar cusp, where the Sun's magnetic field hits Earth's.
Jul 23, 2025
Tata Communications Partners with AWS for AI-Ready Network Rollout in India
Tata Communications partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deploy an advanced, AI-ready long-distance network across India.
The project, which is likely to involve a capital investment of about Rs. 430 crore from Tata Communications, is expected to be completed by the end of FY26.
The collaboration will establish a new high-capacity, long-distance network to connect three AWS infrastructure locations to boost generative AI adoption and cloud innovation in India.
Jul 22, 2025
NASA-ISRO Joint Satellite NISAR Set for July 30 Launch
The launch of NISAR, an earth observation satellite jointly developed by NASA and ISRO, is set to take place on July 30 from the country's only spaceport in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The satellite will be launched on the GSLV-F16 and be put in a 734 km sun synchronous orbit — an orbit in which the satellite reaches over a place at the same time each day.
The satellite will scan nearly all of Earth's land and ice surfaces twice every 12 days. The mission will measure changes in the planet's terrestrial ecosystems, growth and retreat of its ice sheets, glaciers, and sea ice, and tectonic deformation of its crust. The data will be accessible to all users across a range of disciplines, with potential applicability in disaster response, infrastructure monitoring, and agricultural decision support. Weighing 2,392 kg, it will be the first satellite ever to observe the Earth in two frequencies — NASA's L-band and ISRO's S-band.
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