All is set for the launch of Indo-French satellite 'SARAL', aimed at oceanographic studies, and six foreign mini and micro satellites onboard ISRO's workhorse rocket PSLV from the spaceport of Sriharikota in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Monday. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C20 is slated for blast-off at 5.56 pm local time from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, 110 kms from here. President Pranab Mukherjee is...
10:42 AM, Feb 25, 2013
The Indian space agency will February 25 put into orbit seven foreign satellites including an Indo-French collaborative satellite SARAL and thus earn much wanted revenue. ...
03:21 AM, Feb 16, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to accomplish 10 space missions in the next one year, parliament was informed on Wednesday. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy told the Lok Sabha that eight of these are planned by September 2013 and the remaining two by 2013-end. The missions are three polar satellite launch vehicles, one geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle, two communication satellites,...
01:39 AM, Dec 13, 2012
Cape Canaveral: A tropical storm forced the delay of the US space agency's launch of a pair of satellites to Earth's harsh radiation belts, just four minutes before the rockets fired. The countdown was halted early on Saturday for the second time in as many days. NASA initially said it would try again on Sunday. But with Tropical Storm Isaac bearing toward Florida, launch managers decided to move the unmanned...
10:35 PM, Aug 25, 2012
Moscow: North Korea will continue satellite launches for peaceful purposes, an official said a week after a failed launch. "The DPRK's (North Korea) satellites for peaceful purposes will be put into space one after another," said a spokesman for the Korean Committee for Space Technology (KCST) in a statement posted on the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website. The statement, however, gave no specific launch date. "We have a comprehensive...
05:06 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Bangalore: Indian Space Research Organisation has signed a deal, believed to be valued at around Rs 100 crore, to launch an 800 kg satellite of ASTRIUM SAS, a Company under EADS, France. ISRO said in a statement a commercial launch services agreement between Antrix Corporation Limited (ANTRIX), its commercial arm, and ASTRIUM SAS, has been inked but gave no financial details of the deal. But sources in the Bangalore-headquartered space...
10:08 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's PakSat-1R geostationary communications satellite was on Thursday launched into space by a Chinese rocket from a site in southwest China. The satellite was carried into space by a Long March-3B rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province late on Thursday. PakSat-1R was built by scientists and engineers from Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with technical guidance and financial aid from China National Space Administration....
02:16 AM, Aug 12, 2011
Beijing: For the first time, China will be launching a communication satellite for close ally Pakistan, a move that will mark "a new beginning" in bilateral space collaboration. The satellite named PAKSAT-1R will be launched at an "appropriate time" in the coming days; state-run Xinhua news agency quoted an unnamed official as saying. The satellite, which was made in China, would provide a variety of benefits, including high-power communication and...
02:19 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which had a recent setback with the failure of its latest communication satellite GSAT-5P, is planning three major satellite launches in the first quarter of this year. 'Resourcesat-2', an advanced remote sensing satellite, 'Youthsat', a participatory scientific mission with payloads from both Russia and India, and X-sat, Singapore's first indigenous satellite, will be the launched on board of home made PSLV C-16 in February,...
04:49 PM, Jan 17, 2011
N Korea says it will thwart any attempt to interfere with its satellite launch. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 10, 2009
N Korea will retaliate against those seeking to stop the satellite. ...
02:55 AM, Mar 10, 2009
New Delhi: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels Sachin Tendulkar should bid adieu to the one-dayers in order to make things easier for the selectors. Akram believed no matter how badly the champion batsman performs, Indian selectors cannot dare to drop him. I feel Tendulkar should leave one-dayers and concentrate on Test cricket in order to make things easy for the selectors. The Indian selectors can never dare to drop...
11:22 PM, Apr 28, 2008
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C8 carried a 352 kg Italian satellite and put it into orbit in 23 minutes. ...
10:29 PM, Apr 23, 2007
The Ariane-5 rocket, carrying INSAT-4B, had a perfect lift off from Kourou in French Guiana. ...
09:07 AM, Mar 12, 2007
The launch of India's latest telecommunication satellite INSAT-4B has been deferred at the Kourou spaceport. ...
09:43 AM, Mar 11, 2007
