Countdown for LVM3-M3 OneWeb India-2 mission begins

Countdown for LVM3-M3 OneWeb India-2 mission begins

The LVM3-M3/OneWeb India-2 mission mission has commenced | Photo Credit: ANI The countdown for the launch of 36 satellites on-board LVM3-M3/OneWeb India-2 mission has commenced, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Saturday. Network Access Associates Ltd, United Kingdom (OneWeb Group Company) has signed an agreement with ISRO’s commercial arm NewSpace India Ltd to launch 72 satellites […]

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Morning Digest | BJP picks Manik Saha as Tripura CM again; prisons allowed to conduct Aadhaar authentication of inmates, and more

Morning Digest | BJP picks Manik Saha as Tripura CM again; prisons allowed to conduct Aadhaar authentication of inmates, and more

Senior BJP leader Mahesh Sharma with party leader Manik Saha after the latter was named as the next Chief Minister of Tripura at a meeting of the BJP legislative party, in Agartala, Monday, March 6, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Tripura Assembly | Manik Saha elected leader, to take oath on Wednesday Dr. Manik Saha […]

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Morning Digest | SIT on Morbi bridge tragedy finds lapses in repairs, maintenance; Chandrayaan-3 lander completes EMI-EMC test, and more

Morning Digest | SIT on Morbi bridge tragedy finds lapses in repairs, maintenance; Chandrayaan-3 lander completes EMI-EMC test, and more

A cable suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi, Gujarat on October 31, 2022. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Navy plans for another Vikrant-size carrier before Vikramaditya retires As aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya gets ready to sail out of the dockyard after a long refit, the Indian Navy is finalising plans to repeat the order for an INS […]

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ISRO earns ₹1,100 crore in five years from foreign launches

ISRO earns ₹1,100 crore in five years from foreign launches

Minister for Space Jitendra Singh. | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had earned approximately ₹1,100 crore in the last five years from the launch of foreign satellites, Minister for Space Jitendra Singh, told Rajya Sabha on Thursday in response to a query. In the last five years, January 2018 […]

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Space News Weekly Recap: India’s first private spaceflight, ISRO Mars return, and more

Space News Weekly Recap: India’s first private spaceflight, ISRO Mars return, and more

ISRO’s plans for Mars return During a presentation on ISRO’s future missions, Anil Bharadwaj, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, announced that the space agency planned to send a probe to the red planet. According to the initial plans charted out by the Indian space agency, it will build a lunar lander and rover […]

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India’s first privately built rocket set for November 15 launch

India’s first privately built rocket set for November 15 launch

India’s first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S — is set for a November 15 launch on a sub-orbital mission with three payloads, Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace has announced. The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), will carry payloads of two Indian and one foreign customers and is set for launch from […]

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Space News Weekly Recap: India’s first private spaceflight, ISRO Mars return, and more

ISRO set for 1st runway landing experiment of reusable launch vehicle; monitoring weather, says its chairman

The Indian Space Research Organisation appears set for the first runway landing experiment (RLV-LEX) of Reusable Launch Vehicle – Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD) from aeronautical test range in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district, with its Chairman S Somanath indicating that weather is being monitored. “We are looking at the climate. Climate is still not good. So, we are […]

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ISRO plans to return to Mars, explore dark side of moon with Japan

ISRO plans to return to Mars, explore dark side of moon with Japan

After missions to the moon and Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has now set its eyes on Venus and also plans to explore the dark side of the moon in collaboration with Japan. Making a presentation on ISRO’s future missions at the Akash Tattva conference here, Anil Bhardwaj, Director of the Ahmedabad-based Physical […]

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Space news weekly recap: NASA’s UFO team, Martian bacteria and more

Space news weekly recap: NASA’s UFO team, Martian bacteria and more

The word “space” may conjure up images of planets, stars and other heavenly bodies that are light-years away from us, but that is because we forget that “space” is just 100 kilometres above us at any given time. And things that happen in space can sometimes have a profound impact on life on Earth. For example, a NASA […]

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ISRO successfully carries out key test of its heaviest rocket’s engine

ISRO successfully carries out key test of its heaviest rocket’s engine

The flight acceptance hot test of CE-20 engine has been successfully carried out in the High Altitude Test facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu for a duration of 25 seconds. The engine is earmarked for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next 36 OneWeb India-1 satellites, the Indian Space […]

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