22 July 2019
Its lift-off for India's Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission
... and a rover, most of which has been designed and made in India for a price tag of around $140 million. “Indian at heart...Chandrayaan2 is a fully indigenous mission,” said Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi via Twitter. This paltry figure, by usual...
28 March 2019
India carries out first-ever anti-satellite weapon test
...subject to military control. The country’s commitment against weaponisation of outer space was reaffirmed by the PM while he applauding India’s DRDO on the successful test. “The missile travelled a distance of almost 300 kilometres from earth and hit...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
...– from both the DRDO and U.S. military sources, shows that India’s predictions were far off the mark and that the test wasn...no satellites are known to have been hit by fragments from India’s ASAT test, data studied by AGI identifies 25 spacecraft most...
18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
...of its human spaceflight programme in an orbital spacecraft called Gaganyaan. Although companies like Skyroot Aerospace, Solar Industries India, L&T and Godrej Space are already working with ISRO on rocket systems and other space-related technologies...
06 September 2019
India's Chandrayaan-2 lander due to touchdown tonight
... system's origins. It will be a momentous occasion for India, if Vikram lands successfully, as the nation will become ...of onlookers witnessing this extraordinary moment in the history of India's space will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi who ...
29 November 2021
Skyroot successfully test fires India's first privately developed cryogenic rocket engine
...fuel, the company said. “This is a completely ‘Made-in-India' cryogenic engine developed using 3D printing with a superalloy, reducing... awardee and a pioneer of cryogenic rocket propulsion in India, who heads the cryogenic propulsion team at Skyroot, ...
