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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

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

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

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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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First test flight of Gaganyaan mission in February next year: ISRO official

First test flight of Gaganyaan mission in February next year: ISRO official

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will start a series of test flights for India’s maiden human space flight mission from February next year, a senior official said here on Thursday. The space agency also plans to deploy the heavy lift Chinook helicopter and the C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft for testing the crew module, which […]

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Failure of maiden SSLV flight likely to affect US firm’s launch booking on ISRO rocket

Failure of maiden SSLV flight likely to affect US firm’s launch booking on ISRO rocket

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Failure of the maiden flight of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) on Sunday is likely to further delay a launch that was booked on the SSLV rocket by US space launch services firm Spaceflight Inc. The SSLV received a commercial booking in 2019 from Spaceflight Inc in anticipation of […]

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ISRO faces setback as maiden SSLV mission suffers ‘data loss’

ISRO faces setback as maiden SSLV mission suffers ‘data loss’

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ISRO chief S. Somanath said all stages of the mission performed and separated before ‘data loss’ ISRO chief S. Somanath said all stages of the mission performed and separated before ‘data loss’ Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) tryst with history suffered a setback on Sunday, as the maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) suffered “data […]

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Gaganyaan abort mission this year; solar, lunar missions in 2023

Gaganyaan abort mission this year; solar, lunar missions in 2023

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has set new deadlines for major missions, with its first solar mission and third lunar mission set to take place in the first quarter of next year. The space agency’s third scientific mission scheduled for next year is the space observatory, XpoSat, designed to study cosmic x-rays. The first […]

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