18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
...for over five years. It has also seen a few failures too, such as repetitive losses of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle and an unfortunate ending to its Chandrayaan-2 lander, which lost contact with mission control shortly after plummeting...
22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... the Apollo 11 mission took just 4 days to reach the Moon, India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (GSLV Mk-III) used in the launch, cannot thrust Chandrayaan-2 straight to our nearest celestial neighbour. Instead the spacecraft will...
October 2015
From the kitchen… to the stars?
... were successfully operated as a part of the 12KRB cryogenic upper stage on the Indian launch vehicle GSLV MkI, otherwise known as the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. As it turned out, this work then extended over years, due to financing...
