News Archive / Tagged: ISRO

• Launch of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-2 mission delayed

  Jason RhianJuly 14th, 2019

  A prestigious mission the India Space Research Organisation is planning on sending to the Moon did not fly today. What was described as a "technical snag" has placed the mission on hold - with no new launch date announced.

• New technique can spot failing bridges from orbit

  Jim SharkeyJuly 13th, 2019

  Bridges are a critical but vulnerable component of transportation infrastructure. Age, structural damage or design flaws can result in a bridge collapse. A group of researchers, led by  Pietro Milillo, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), have developed a new technique to examine bridges for sign of decay using satellite data. The team's study was recently published in the journal Remote Sensing.

• 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

• ISRO launches new PSLV-DL variant

  Derek RichardsonJanuary 24th, 2019

  The Indian Space Research Organisation launched a new variant of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, the PSLV-DL, to send Microsat-R into orbit.

• India launches HysIS satellite along with 30 co-passengers on PSLV-C43

  Curt GodwinNovember 29th, 2018

  At 9:58 a.m. Indian Standard Time (IST) on Thursday, November 29, 2018 (11:28 p.m. EST on Wednesday, November 28), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully delivered the HysIS imaging satellite, along with 30 smaller satellites, to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) on flight PSLV-C43.

• GSLV Mk III lofts GSAT-29 communications satellite

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 14th, 2018

  India successfully conducted the second orbital mission of its heavy-lift GSLV Mk III launch vehicle, sending the GSAT-29 spacecraft into space.

• 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’s Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission slips to 2019

  Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 9th, 2018

  Chandrayaan-2, India’s second mission to the Moon has, according to Indian media outlets, been delayed again. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now targeting a January 2019 launch date.

• IRNSS-1I navigation satellite launched by Indian PSLV rocket

  Derek RichardsonApril 11th, 2018

  Some two weeks after mysteriously losing contact with the GSAT-6A satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its next spacecraft into orbit, IRNSS-1I, which was launched to support the country’s regional navigation satellite system.

• ISRO chairman confident of Chandrayaan-2 success

  Tomasz NowakowskiApril 6th, 2018

  India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission, which was recently delayed to October 2018, will end in success, believes the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

• India looks to return its workhorse PSLV rocket to service with launch of 31 satellites

  Curt GodwinJanuary 9th, 2018

  Nearly four and a half months after its last launch ended in failure, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is looking to return its workhorse Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) to service with the flight of the Cartosat-2ER Earth-observation satellite and 30 smaller, secondary payloads. ISRO is currently targeting a launch date of January 11, 2018, at 10:58 p.m. EST (January 12, 2018, at 03:58 GMT).

• ISRO plans to develop light-lift rocket to launch small satellites into orbit

  Tomasz NowakowskiDecember 19th, 2017

  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) eyes the development of a new light-lift booster dedicated to launching smaller payloads into space.

• Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission to be launched in first quarter of 2018

  Tomasz NowakowskiNovember 10th, 2017

  A. S. Kiran Kumar, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has recently revealed that Chandrayaan-2 – India’s second mission to the Moon – will be ready for launch sometime in the first quarter of 2018, noting that the spacecraft is currently in its final stages of integration.

• India launches its largest rocket

  Derek RichardsonJune 5th, 2017

  India launched its most powerful rocket to date. The GSLV Mk.3, which has two solid-fueled boosters, a twin-engine core, and cryogenic upper stage, lifted off the pad at 7:58 a.m. EDT (11:58 GMT) on June 5, 2017, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island in India.

• India announces opportunity for instruments on Venus mission

  Paul KnightlyMay 9th, 2017

  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is seeking experiments to include on a potential mission to explore Venus. A launch date was not provided for the mission, but it seeks to build on past missions launched by other nations that have included satellites, landers, and atmospheric probes.