December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... being transmitted to the principal investigators for analysis. Geopolitically, the success of the Mars mission now allows India to stand shoulder to shoulder with other powerful nations at international forums such as the UN. The success of the Mars...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... issued on ISRO’s website. To foster the growth of the India’s space sector, Kivan said every centre of ISRO has been ... ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) was India's nerve centre for the country’s first interplanetary mission,...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...Space Age which has far stronger parallels to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) which acted as an expansionist power for the...coming decades. Portrait of the Directors of the Dutch East India Company by Johan de Baen in 1682. Commercial leadership The...
03 December 2019
Found! The remains of India's Vikram Lander are identified
... about 4.5 feet (1.5 meters) across. Vikram measured 2.5 metres (8.3 feet) in its longest dimension, according to materials released by India's space agency before the landing attempt. Two subsequent image sequences were acquired on 14 and 15 October...
June 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
..."China is still far ahead of everybody else", Johnson-Freese adds. "India is desperately trying to catch up. Japan has been in the same place ... orbiter, lander and rover in 2016 or later. India also launched the robotic Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM, ...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
...is often painted. Two countries with hitherto ‘peaceful purposes’ programmes have developed military dimensions (Japan and India). Two axis-of-evil countries (Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) developed rockets sufficiently powerful...
