Tag: GSLV MK. 3
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India’s first moon lander stacked for launch
The Chandrayaan 2 mission’s Vikram landing craft and Pragyan rover undergo preparations for launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast. Credit: ISRO India’s first lunar lander has been hoisted on top of its GSLV Mk.3 rocket ahead of a liftoff scheduled for Sunday. The launch aboard India’s most powerful rocket —…
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India plans July launch of Chandrayaan 2 moon mission
An astronaut on the International Space Station captured this photo of moonrise in 2017. Credit: NASA Indian engineers hope to launch the country’s first robotic lunar lander between July 9 and July 16 on India’s most powerful rocket, the head of the Indian space agency said this week. The robotic Chandrayaan 2 mission will launch…
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India’s GSLV Mk.3 aces test launch, clearing way for lunar mission
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 7:30 a.m. EST (1230 GMT) after launch. Credit: ISRO The second orbital test flight of India’s GSLV Mk.3 launcher took off Wednesday, hoisting a high-throughput communications satellite into orbit to connect the county’s remote population and clearing the way for a robotic lunar lander to use the rocket in January. Boosted…
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Photos: India’s GSLV Mk.3 debuts with on-target test flight
India’s new GSLV Mk.3 launcher delivered to orbit the GSAT 19 communications satellite Monday, and these photos show the rocket lifting off from a launch pad on the eastern Indian coastline powered by two side-mounted solid rocket boosters. The GSLV Mk.3 took off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT) Monday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center,…
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Live coverage: New Indian launcher succeeds on maiden orbital test flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a GSLV Mk.3 rocket from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Center with the GSAT 19 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at 1125 GMT (7:25 a.m. EDT).
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India’s launcher fleet gets an upgrade with successful test flight
A powerful new launch vehicle climbed into space from India’s east coast Monday, delivering a multi-beam communications satellite to orbit on its first full-up test flight, setting marks for the heaviest rocket and spacecraft ever launched from India. The upgraded Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, named GSLV MK.3, lifted off at 1158 GMT (7:58 a.m. EDT)…
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Watch a replay of India’s most powerful launcher heading into orbit
Video credit: ISRO India’s GSLV Mk.3 rocket took off Monday on its first full-scale orbital test flight, delivering the GSAT 19 communications satellite to an on-target orbit after successfully demonstrating new solid rocket boosters, a twin-engine core stage and an upgraded cryogenic upper stage engine. The 142-foot-tall (43-meter) rocket lifted off from India’s east coast…
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India’s new rocket program achieves big success
The GSLV Mk. 3 launcher flies downrange from India’s east coast. Credit: ISRO India’s aspiration to launch all of its own satellites — and eventually astronauts — into space got a boost Thursday with a successful test flight of a powerful new rocket and a prototype landing capsule designed for the country’s human spaceflight program.…
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Live coverage: All-new Indian rocket takes off on maiden flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s first GSLV Mk. 3 launch vehicle on a suborbital test flight carrying a prototype capsule for India’s planned human space program. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Photos: India test flies new launcher, crew capsule
A powerful new Indian launcher and a precursor to a future piloted space capsule flew to the edge of space on a 20-minute test mission Thursday. The GSLV MK. 3 rocket and the Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment, or CARE, took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast at 0400 GMT…