Tag: ISRO
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India’s 50th PSLV lifts off with satellites from five nations
India’s 50th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle soars into the sky over Sriharikota Island. Credit: ISRO The 50th flight of an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle delivered 10 spacecraft from five nations into orbit Wednesday, including a new Indian radar surveillance platform and a batch of small commercial Earth observation satellites. The 144-foot-tall (44.4-meter) launcher lifted…
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Live coverage: India launches second PSLV mission in two weeks
Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the RISAT 2BR1 radar observation satellite and nine secondary payloads. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at approximately 0330 GMT (10:30 p.m. EST) and will be available on this page.
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Indian PSLV launches RISAT-2BR1 military satellite
ISRO launched the fiftieth PSLV mission Wednesday, with its workhorse rocket flying for the second time in barely a fortnight to deploy a radar imaging spy satellite for India’s military. The RISAT-2BR1 satellite was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at 15:25 local time (09:55 UTC), with deployment into low Earth orbit expected sixteen…
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Amateur sleuth helps locate crash site of India’s Vikram moon lander
This before and after image ratio highlights changes to the surface; the impact point is near center of the image and stands out due the dark rays and bright outer halo. Note the dark streak and debris about 100 meters to the south-southeast of the impact point. Diagonal straight lines are uncorrected background artifacts. Credits:…
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Live coverage: PSLV launches with 14 satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the Cartosat 3 Earth-imaging satellite and 13 nanosatellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. ISRO’s live video stream begins at approximately 0330 GMT (10:30 p.m. EST) and will be available on this page.
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PSLV delivers India’s highest-resolution Earth observation satellite to orbit
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off at 9:28 a.m. local time Wednesday (0358 GMT; 10:58 p.m. EST Tuesday) with the Cartosat 3 satellite and 13 secondary payloads. Credit: ISRO Thirteen U.S.-built nanosatellites hitched a ride to space Tuesday with a sharp-eyed Indian Earth-imaging observatory at the top of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.…
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Next batch of Planet’s upgraded Earth-imaging satellites ready for launch
One of Planet’s SkySat satellites captured this view of a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. Credit: Planet A dozen SuperDove nanosatellites with improved vision are set to join Planet’s Earth-observing fleet Tuesday night (U.S. time) after riding into orbit aboard an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle alongside an Indian mapping…
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India’s PSLV conducts Cartosat-3 launch
India deployed the first in a new generation of remote sensing satellites Wednesday, via its PSLV rocket. The Cartosat-3 satellite lifted off at 09:28 local time (03:58 UTC), with the PSLV taking just under eighteen minutes to place it into orbit. Thirteen nanosatellites were also deployed by Wednesday’s launch. The Cartosat-3 spacecraft is the latest…
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LRO’s view of Chandrayaan 2 landing site obscured by shadows
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft captured this view of the moon in 1992 on its mission to Jupiter. Credit: NASA An overflight last week of the Chandrayaan 2 landing site on the moon by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has turned up no clear sign of the lost Indian lander. Another flyover with better lighting conditions is scheduled…
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NASA lunar orbiter to image Chandrayaan 2 landing site
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated to correct date of LRO flyover. This mosaic of the near side of the moon was created using data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will try to locate India’s Vikram lander on the moon during a flyover of the landing site Tuesday. Indian space officials said they…