News Archive / Tagged: India

• India lands robotic Chandrayaan-3 near Moon’s south pole

  Derek RichardsonAugust 23rd, 2023

  India successfully soft-landed a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, becoming the fourth country to do so, and the first to touchdown at the south pole region.

• India’s PSLV places RISAT-2B into orbit

  Derek RichardsonMay 22nd, 2019

  Launching its third rocket of 2019, the India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sent the RISAT-2B spacecraft into low Earth orbit on May 22, which should provide Earth-imagining services to

• Reactions mixed regarding India’s anti-satellite test

  Derek RichardsonMarch 28th, 2019

  After India tested an anti-satellite missile by destroying one of its own spacecraft in orbit, the reaction from around the world has been varied.

• India aims to send its first crewed mission to space by 2022

  Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 20th, 2018

  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled on Wednesday, August 15, an ambitious plan to send the first Indian to space by 2022. The announcement was made when he was addressing the nation during Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi.

• India conducts pad abort test for its crewed space flight program

  Tomasz NowakowskiJuly 6th, 2018

  On Thursday, July 5, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully carried out an emergency Pad Abort Test (PAT), marking the first step to qualify India’s indigenous Crew Escape System technology for launching astronauts into space.