Tag: ISRO
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PSLV launches with IRNSS-1D to open India’s 2015 campaign
India has continued deployment of its IRNSS navigation system Saturday, with the launch of the fourth satellite atop a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota. Launched on schedule at 17:19 local time (11:49 UTC), the IRNSS-1D mission marks India’s first orbital launch of the year. Indian Launch: The IRNSS-1D…
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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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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…
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India debuts GSLV Mk.III with prototype crew capsule
The Indian Space Research Organisation has launched the first test flight of its newest rocket – the GSLV Mk.III – on Thursday, conducting a suborbital flight that also demonstrated a prototype crew capsule (CARE) for India’s proposed manned missions. Liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre occurred at 09:30 local time (04:00 UTC). ISRO Launch:…
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Powerful new Indian rocket poised for suborbital test launch
The GSLV Mk. 3 launch vehicle emerges from its assembly building at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. Credit: ISRO Indian engineers are counting down to a test flight Thursday of a next-generation launcher to verify the performance of two powerful solid rocket motors, a twin-engine core booster and a prototype capsule designed for…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 blasts off on commercial flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the DirecTV 14 and GSAT 16 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Ariane 5 sends up satellites for DirecTV, India
Two communications satellites rode an Ariane 5 rocket into space Saturday — one to beam down ultra-sharp television programming into millions of American homes and another craft to give Indian citizens expanded access to information technology. The dual-payload blastoff occurred at 3:40 p.m. EST (2040 GMT; 5:40 p.m. local time) from the Ariane 5’s ELA-3…
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Indian PSLV lofts IRNSS-1C satellite
India has launch its third navigation satellite Thursday morning local time, with a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully carrying the IRNSS-1C satellite on the first leg of its journey towards geostationary orbit. Liftoff was on schedule at 01:32 local time (20:02 Wednesday) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Indian Launch: IRNSS-1C forms part of…