ISRO is planning to launch its next rocket PSLV C23 carrying a French remote sensing satellite SPOT 7, along with four others from Sriharikota spaceport on June 26The Hindu
BENGALURU (PTI):India would launch a communication satellite GSAT-30 onboard Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana on January 17, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Monday. The 3,357-kg satellite is slated to blast off from the Ariane Launch Complex a...
He said the computer that was used in the rocket was made in India. In his brisk presentation, he said space tourism has picked up in the world with startups evincing interest in various applications which impact the day-to-day activities. The ISRO chairman said that the agency is ...
said after the launch, “This demonstration opens a gateway for cost-effective spent stage recovery using the Inflatable Aerodynamics Decelerator technology and this IAD technology can also be used in ISRO’s future missions to Venus and Mars.”Interplanetary missions are so undoubtedly one area that...
For ISRO, launch of multiple satellites at one go is not a new thing as it has done it several times in the past. According to Sasibhushan, the total payload/weight carried off into space by the PSLV-XL rocket will be around 1,600 kg. Citing non-disclosure agreements, Sasibhushan ...
TLI is a propulsive manoeuver which helps to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will put it on its course to the Moon. Generally, this process is performed by a chemical rocket engine and it involves a certain burn, this increases the speed of the spacecraft. ...
According to ISRO, India has built 62 satellites and 37 rockets starting from its first satellite Aryabhatta and rocket satellite launch vehicle (SLV). The total number of space missions till date is 99. "ISRO counts each of its rocket flights as a single mission. If our satellite is launch...
The space probe entered the Mars orbit on September 24, almost a year after its launch, and made its home around the Red Planet. European Space Agency (ESA) of European consortium, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US and Roscosmos of Russia are the only three oth...
The PSLV-C45/EMISAT is a special mission as it is the ISRO’s first ever effort to place satellites in three different orbits in a single satellite launch mission. On the other hand this will also test a new variant of the PSLV rocket “the PSLV-QL, which has 4 extra strap-on booste...
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1957 used the fact that his country had been first to launch a satellite as evidence of the technological power of the Soviet Union and of the superiority of communism. He repeated these claims after Yuri Gagarin’s orbital flight in 1961. Although U.S. Pre...