A. Rajarajan, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, displays a scale model of the crew module for the Gaganyaan programme on August 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) conducted successfully at Sriharikota on Sunday (August 24, 2025) marks an important step for Gaganyaan, India’s keenly watched programme for […]
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There are three movies from my youth that shaped how I felt about space: E.T., Cocoon and Independence Day. While the first two presented extraterrestrial life as wrinkly, cute and more or less benign, watching spaceships obliterate the White House didn’t give me the best feeling about what was out there in the universe. It […]
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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre performs tests at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre performs tests at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, that it has successfully demonstrated a hybrid propulsion system that uses a solid fuel and liquid oxidiser. The hybrid […]
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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested a technology that could aid cost-effective recovery of spent rocket stages and safely land payloads on other planets. The Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD) was designed, developed and successfully test-flown by ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) on a Rohini-300 (RH300 Mk II) sounding rocket from the […]
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HS200 booster designed and developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram HS200 booster designed and developed at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully carried out the static test of the HS200 solid rocket booster, taking the space agency one more step closer to the keenly awaited Gaganyaan human […]
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