Chennai: Nine satellite launches, a policy for managing remote sensing data and commissioning of the country's fastest supercomputer - India's space agency can look back at 2011 with a fair sense of satisfaction, though the scrapping of a controversial spectrum deal with a private company remains a blemish on its yearly report card. During 2011, the Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) launched eight satellites using its own rocket Polar...
05:25 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Sriharikota: Indian Space Research Organistaion's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C17 (PSLV) carrying a new communication satellite has been successfully launched from Sriharikota. An extra large PSLV rocket knows as PSLV-XL was used to boost the GSAT-12 communication satellite into space. GSAT-12 will link doctors and teachers from the cities with rural India and can help in a medical diagnosis over a satellite link. ISRO is currently battling a severe shortage in...
05:12 PM, Jul 15, 2011
The eighteenth flight of India's tried and trusted PSLV rocket launched the country's eighteenth remote sensing satellite into space. ...
07:56 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Sriharikota: India's PSLV-C16 rocket on Wednesday successfully launched into orbit the latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 that would study and help manage natural resources along with two nano satellites. ISRO's homegrown workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed in a 'Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit' Resourcesat-2, Youthsat and X-Sat about 18 minutes after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch pad here, 90 km from Chennai, at 10.12 am. ...
10:41 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Sriharikota: India's PSLV-C16 rocket on Wednesday successfully launched into orbit the latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 that would study and help manage natural resources along with two nano satellites. ISRO's homegrown workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed in a 'Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit' Resourcesat-2, Youthsat and X-Sat about 18 minutes after it blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre launch pad here, 90 km from Chennai, at 10.12 am. ...
10:41 AM, Apr 20, 2011
ISRO will launch Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C 16 - a remote sensing satellite into space on Wednesday. ...
07:10 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Chennai: After 16 successful launches of its workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in the last 17 years, the Indian space agency is now testing a key component to re-qualify its on-flight performance parameters to avoid any unpleasant surprises. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is testing the gas motor which is fitted in the second stage/engine powered by liquid fuel for high temperature tolerance levels. The test has...
02:38 PM, Feb 26, 2011
Students who built the StudSat say designing the satellite was the toughest part of their work. ...
10:23 PM, Jul 12, 2010
The StudSat, which was carried to the space by PSLV on Monday, has been built by engineering students. ...
10:01 PM, Jul 12, 2010
The satellite launch vehicle carried Cartosat-2B, an advanced remote sensing satellite built by ISRO. ...
09:25 AM, Jul 12, 2010
The countdown for the launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre began at 6.52 am on Saturday. ...
01:12 PM, Jul 10, 2010
OceanSat-2 is the second major satellite to watch Indian waters. ...
12:30 AM, Sep 24, 2009
The launch is ISRO's first major satellite launch since Chandrayaan 1. ...
12:05 PM, Sep 23, 2009
Oceansat-2 will be ejected into a sun-synchronous orbit. ...
07:53 AM, Sep 23, 2009
Mission definitely over, says project director for India's first moon mission. ...
03:41 PM, Aug 29, 2009
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