Tag: India
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Launch managers sign off on final Ariane 5 flight of 2015
A team member working on the next Ariane 5 flight signs the rocket’s payload fairing ahead of Tuesday’s liftoff. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin A launch readiness review Friday cleared an Ariane 5 rocket for liftoff Tuesday with two communications satellites for Arabsat and India, the first three missions from…
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India’s first astronomy satellite launched into space
India’s Astrosat mission launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle at 0430 GMT (12:30 a.m. EDT; 10 a.m. Indian time) Monday. Credit: ISRO An Indian astronomical observatory rocketed into orbit Monday to study black holes and neutron stars — the compact, powerful remnants of exploded stars — in a five-year mission lauded as a milestone…
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Live coverage: India’s first space observatory in orbit
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the Astrosat X-ray observatory. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Indian space program buoyed by back-to-back GSLV successes
The GSLV lifted off at 1122 GMT (7:22 a.m. EDT) Thursday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast about 50 miles north of Chennai. Credit: ISRO/Spaceflight Now India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle soared into space Thursday and deployed a 2.3-ton communications payload into an on-target orbit, tallying its second consecutive success with…
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Countdown begins for launch of Indian military satellite
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rolls out to the Second Launch Pad at its launch base on Sriharikota Island on India’s east coast. A government-owned communications satellite heading for geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above Earth is set for launch Thursday to on a nine-year mission to to support the Indian military. The 4,667-pound GSAT 6…
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Orbital sail, Earth-watching satellites launched by PSLV
A video frame from India’s launch broadcast of Friday’s PSLV mission. Credit: ISRO Five satellites made in Britain to track the expansion of Chinese cities and demonstrate a new sail design to clean up space junk blasted off Friday on top of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. Making its 30th flight since 1993, the…
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Indian PSLV launches five British satellites
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) conducted its thirtieth flight on Friday evening local time, deploying five British satellites into a Sun-Synchronous orbit. Liftoff occurred at 21:58 local time (16:28 UTC) from the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. PSLV Launch: First flown in 1993, the Polar…
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British satellites set to ride Indian rocket into space
The PSLV’s second stage is hoisted onto the rocket during stacking operations at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on India’s east coast. Credit: ISRO India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is set for liftoff Friday with five satellites built in Britain to look down on Earth and test a solar sail’s ability to clean up space…
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Liftoff of Indian navigation satellite postponed
File photo of an Indian navigation satellite attached to the fourth stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle before a launch in 2014. Credit: ISRO The launch of a satellite for India’s indigenous navigation network has been postponed to resolve a problem with one of the spacecraft’s radio transmitters, officials said Wednesday. The spacecraft was…
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Indian navigation satellite launched by PSLV
A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off with the IRNSS 1C navigation satellite at 2002 GMT (4:02 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, or 1:32 a.m. local time Thursday, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. Photo credit: ISRO The third spacecraft to join India’s growing regional navigation system blasted off and flew into orbit Wednesday aboard…