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India’s space agency, ISRO, has reported a failure in launching its EOS-9 surveillance satellite into the planned orbit after a technical problem during the rocket’s flight.
The PSLV-C61 rocket took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday morning. However, during the third stage of the launch, a drop in motor pressure caused the mission to fail, ISRO chief V Narayanan confirmed.
“This mission could not be completed due to a fall in the chamber pressure of the motor case,” Narayanan told local media. He added that the agency is reviewing the entire launch to understand what went wrong and will share more details soon.
Despite this setback, India’s space program has made rapid progress over the years, achieving milestones like the Mars orbiter mission in 2014 and a successful moon landing in 2023.
ISRO has faced only a few failures in its PSLV rocket missions since the program started, with the first one back in 1993. A committee will now investigate the latest incident to find the cause.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday (17 January) that concerns over security in Greenland should be addressed within the framework of NATO, describing a ground military intervention as highly unlikely.
Ashley St. Clair, mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, has filed a lawsuit against Musk’s company xAI, alleging that its AI tool Grok generated explicit images of her, including one portraying her as underage.
Egypt and Sudan have welcomed an offer by U.S. President Donald Trump to restart mediation with Ethiopia in a bid to resolve the long-running dispute over Nile River water sharing.
Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing that the companies profited unfairly from his early support of the artificial intelligence firm, according to a court filing made public on Friday.
Lithuanian prosecutors have charged six foreign nationals with terrorism over an alleged plot to attack a private military supplier providing aid to Ukraine.
The European Union faced calls to implement a range of economic countermeasures in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to impose tariffs on eight European countries in connection with Greenland.
Six people have been killed after a massive fire tore through a shopping centre in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, authorities said, as firefighters battled through the night to contain the blaze.
The world is entering a more unstable and fragmented phase as global cooperation declines and rivalry between major powers intensifies, the World Economic Forum has warned.
The Trump administration has denied a report that countries would be required to pay $1bn to join a proposed U.S.-backed peace initiative, after Bloomberg News said a draft charter set out a membership fee.
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