Tag: ISRO

  • Timeline for Ariane 5’s launch of Sky Muster 2 and GSAT 18

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    A communications satellite to broadcast high-speed Internet to remote parts of Australia and a new platform to beam television and multimedia programming across India are fastened to the top of an Ariane 5 rocket for launch Wednesday. Standing nearly 180 feet (55 meters) tall, the Ariane 5 is scheduled to lift off from Kourou, French…

  • ISRO PSLV conducts SCATSAT-1 launch

    ISRO PSLV conducts SCATSAT-1 launch

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    ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has successfully deployed the SCATSAT-1 ocean research satellite as part of an eight-satellite payload due to launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre early on Monday. Liftoff of the Indian rocket was on schedule at 09:12 local time (03:42 UTC). PSLV Launch: Monday’s eight-satellite launch, for which SCATSAT is…

  • Photos: India’s GSLV fires off the launch pad

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    Photo credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle climbed away from Sriharikota Island on the country’s east coast Thursday, delivering a weather satellite into orbit and achieving the third success in a row for the previously-troubled booster. The all-Indian 161-foot-tall (49-meter) rocket lifted off from the Second Launch Pad, one of two orbital-class facilities at…

  • GSLV puts advanced Indian weather satellite in orbit

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    Updated at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Sept. 8 after successful launch. The GSLV lifted off at 1120 GMT (7:20 a.m. EDT) Thursday. Credit: ISRO India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle blasted off Thursday with a meteorological observatory destined to track storms and tropical cyclones from a perch more than 22,000 miles above Earth. The Insat…

  • India tests scramjet demonstrator over Bay of Bengal

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    The Advanced Technology Vehicle, a two-stage sounding rocket, blasted off Sunday with India’s scramjet engine demonstrator. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency launched a modified suborbital sounding rocket Sunday and ignited two air-breathing scramjet engines at Mach 6 for a brief five-second experiment that could pave the way for a future reusable space transport system. The…

  • India’s PSLV-XL launches with Cartosat-2C and 19 satellites

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    An Indian (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL) has deployed twenty satellites – including its primary passenger the Cartosat-2C satellite – on Wednesday in India’s fourth orbital launch of the year. Liftoff was on schedule at 09:25 local time (03:55 UTC), launching from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. PSLV Launch:…

  • India flies winged space plane on experimental suborbital launch

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    India’s prototype reusable space plane blasted off at 7 a.m. local time Monday. Credit: ISRO A prototype for a future winged Indian spaceship took off early Monday on a suborbital flight 65 kilometers (40 miles) over the Bay of Bengal and steered itself to an on-target splashdown, testing a heat shield and guidance, navigation and…

  • India successfully launches Reusable Launch Vehicle demonstrator mission

    India successfully launches Reusable Launch Vehicle demonstrator mission

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    The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully launched a Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator mission. The flight began at 07:00 Indian Standard Time on 23 May (01:30 UTC), resulting in a successful launch for the winged, reusable space plane that conducted a suborbital mission to gather in-flight data. Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator: The quest…

  • India successfully launches Reusable Launch Vehicle demonstrator mission

    India successfully launches Reusable Launch Vehicle demonstrator mission

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    The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully launched a Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator mission. The flight began at 07:00 Indian Standard Time on 23 May (01:30 UTC), resulting in a successful launch for the winged, reusable space plane that conducted a suborbital mission to gather in-flight data. Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator: The quest…

  • India readies reusable launch vehicle testbed for flight

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    Artist’s concept of India’s reusable launch vehicle demonstrator. Credit: ISRO India’s space agency plans to boost a sleek winged prototype spacecraft into the upper atmosphere aboard a solid-fueled rocket early Monday on a short test flight that will end with a controlled, unpowered glide to a simulated runway landing in the Bay of Bengal. The…