Aloke Kumar
@aalokelab
Associate Professor @ Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Personal and Lab related tweets.
During COVID, the skies over India were unusually clear. We both loved stargazing since childhood. We had a small telescope used to spend nights just looking up. — Prof. Aloke Kumar @aalokelab
The photographs clicked on the station take some time to received, verified and cleared because of the multiple space agencies involved. While I wait for them I wanted to share an astrophotography story. I started into astrophotography upon returning to India after my first leg…
Literally no other photos like these exist. The star tracker he built and brought to space to take these is the first of its kind. It was previously impossible to achieve this level of deep space detail from orbit. Unprecedented in astrophotography.
Dragon flying among the stars.
Science from space - one of the highlights of this mission was conducting science in microgravity. Simple experiments become complex due to the environment of microgravity. Since everything floats, nothing would break if you leave it but would surely float away and you may end up…
Gp Capt. Shukla's journey has opened new portals. Many experiments conceived by Indian PIs were conducted. Shukla's training at @iiscbangalore came in handy during this. A new milestone for Indian academia. R. Dixit covers 4 @shaastramag @gagan_shux shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/special-featur…
We are hiring! We have an opening for a project associate at ctcs.iitm.ac.in at @iitmadras. Kindly refer to the attachment for details. To apply, send your CV to [email protected] #phd #Project #ComplexSystem #matlab #hiring #Recruiting
On this day in 1969 for the first time a human set foot on the moon. The moon that is 384,000 km away from us. The statement "It is a small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind" became etched in history as one of the most impactful. The achievement forever remains a…
A very just demand. @PMOIndia
ISRO's rocket launch livestreams are a huge mess.👎 #ISROfixYourPR Here's why: SpaceX, ULA, ESA, RocketLab, JAXA, ArianeSpace, all of them provide livestreams of their rocket launches with uninterrupted live views of the ascending rocket and on board camera footage from the…
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On this day in 1969 for the first time a human set foot on the moon. The moon that is 384,000 km away from us. The statement "It is a small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind" became etched in history as one of the most impactful. The achievement forever remains a…
Beautiful photos of our Moon from the ISS by our dear astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla. Yeh dil maange more 😍😍😍
On this day in 1969 for the first time a human set foot on the moon. The moon that is 384,000 km away from us. The statement "It is a small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind" became etched in history as one of the most impactful. The achievement forever remains a…
@aalokelab and I had an opportunity to visit the Anugami control room last week, and interact with the Anugami team. It was an interesting experience to watch (through CCTV!) the crew perform research tasks in a very confined setting. Being in a fully closed and confined... [1/2]
In a pioneering step for India’s Space program, the Indian Air Force enabled a ten-day Space Analogue Mission ANUGAMI at IAM Bengaluru under ICMR’s Space Psychology Centre. Led by #IAF astronaut Gp Capt Angad Pratap, the crew of three tackled terra farming, resilience,…
Project submission deadline brings students back to earth from space
Back home safe, sound and cheerful ! 😇😇🇮🇳🇮🇳
Mission Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, turned 'waterbender', with Commander Peggy Whitson show us some tricks with water in the microgravity of space 😄
Dragon departs for Earth ! Safe travels to all four astronauts.
🔴 LIVE NOW: Watch a Dragon departing the International @Space_Station with @astro_slawosz and the #Ax4 crew. 🐉🛰️👨🚀🇵🇱 ▶️ youtube.com/live/AWHM-psWA… This is what it looked like from @Astro_Andreas's POV when he recorded @astro_marcus's undocking in 2024.
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's experience on ISS will be very valuable to the Indian mission. Wishing him well for his return from ISS. 🙏🙏
Shubhanshu Shukla and Axiom-4 Crew Set to Return SpaceX Dragon will undock from the ISS today. Splashdown off California expected tomorrow at 3 pm IST. Watch Live: youtu.be/de-t09FEMKU #Axiom4 #ShubhanshuShukla
Happy to see Ravi Hosmani's experiment from University of Dharwad being undertaken in the ISS. Tardigrade experiments are from Sandeep's lab at IISc.
#IndianInSpace #Updates Haven't been able to share in the past few days. Here are some stories from our coverage on #ShubhanshuShukla and the #Ax4 mission @Space_Station
@QOSMIC__Space @aalokelab
India’s top tech professors are turning into deep-tech entrepreneurs, backed by VCs & IP-friendly campus policies. IITs/IISc/BITs now rival MIT in spawning startups, with over 20% faculty at some institutes founding ventures. Academia is fast becoming India’s next startup…
This is not how a Martian sky would appear to human eyes. This is a stacked long-exposure image and if you took images from a dark enuf place on Earth you will get similar images.
THE NIGHT SKY ON MARS LOOKS INSANE Imagine standing on Martian soil under a sky so dense with stars it feels unreal. That’s the view - no atmosphere to blur it, no city lights to drown it out. How long until we’re the ones under that sky?
Mirrorless Nikon cameras on ISS (?). I am told ISS has Z9s.
Take a look at low-Earth orbit through the lens of #Ax4. Check out the images below to explore the sights that the Ax4 crew captured aboard the @Space_Station.