Tag: ISRO
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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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Indian rocket successfully delivers radar observation satellite to orbit
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from India’s spaceport on Sriharikota Island early Wednesday, local time. Credit: ISRO An Indian rocket fired into space Wednesday with a high-power radar imaging satellite designed to peer through clouds and darkness to resolve signs of pollution, natural disasters and foreign military movements. The 145-foot-tall (44.4-meter) Polar…
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Live coverage: Indian PSLV launches with RISAT 2B radar satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with the RISAT 2B radar imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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Indian PSLV rocket launches RISAT-2B
India upgraded its reconnaissance capabilities through the launch of a RISAT-2B radar imaging satellite Wednesday. Liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre aboard a PSLV rocket occurred at 05:30 local time (00:00 UTC), with the launch lasting fifteen and a half minutes from liftoff to spacecraft separation. The satellite launched on Wednesday was the first…
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Indian radar reconnaissance satellite set for launch
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle stands at the First Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center in preparation for launch Wednesday. Credit: ISRO An Indian satellite designed to collect all-weather, day-and-night radar imagery for military and intelligence authorities is scheduled for launch Wednesday on top of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The RISAT…
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India launches EMISAT intelligence-gathering satellite and 28 CubeSats
India has deployed its EMISAT intelligence-gathering satellite Monday via a PSLV launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The launch – which was also carry twenty-eight small satellites and demonstrate operation of the vehicle’s fourth stage as an orbiting experimental platform – lifted off at 09:27 local time (03:57 UTC). Monday’s launch, the second of…
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Ariane 5 launches Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 and GSAT 31
Ariane 5 opened her 2019 campaign on Tuesday with the dual passenger launch of two telecommunications satellites, Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 and GSAT 31. Liftoff from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana occurred on schedule at the start of a 61 minute launch window that opened at 21:01 UTC. Flight VA247 launched from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3…
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Photos: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flies in new configuration
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off Jan. 24 in a new, intermediate configuration with two strap-on solid rocket boosters, providing a lift capability between the PSLV’s previous variants with zero or six side-mounted rocket motors. The 145-foot-tall (44-meter) rocket took off from India’s spaceport on Sriharikota Island, located on the country’s southeastern coast,…
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Photos: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle flies in new configuration
An Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off Jan. 24 in a new, intermediate configuration with two strap-on solid rocket boosters, providing a lift capability between the PSLV’s previous variants with zero or six side-mounted rocket motors. The 145-foot-tall (44-meter) rocket took off from India’s spaceport on Sriharikota Island, located on the country’s southeastern coast,…