18 May 2020
India opens its space industry to private firms and start-ups
... to combat the crippling financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Prior to a slowdown in economic growth, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) has seen a number of successes in recent years including an historic launch of 104 satellites...
15 February 2017
Indian rocket sets new satellite launch record
...of 37 satellites launched by Russia in 2014. But former ISRO chairman G. Madhavan Nair expressed concern over the potential for ... satellites on 15 February 2017 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This was the thirty-eighth ...
07 September 2019
Chandrayaan-2 lander fails to touchdown successfully
... three other countries have managed so far. It would also have been a huge technological achievement for ISRO and the country’s space ambitions. But not all is lost. The Chandrayaan 2 orbiter still remains in orbit and will...
21 August 2017
First Slovak satellite launched into space
... and constructed completely in Slovakia by the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA), skCUBE successfully blasted into space with the aid of the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
...radar to successfully spot both NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [LRO] and the “lost” Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Pioneered by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the technique...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... lifetimes. The Indian government had initially claimed it would take no longer than 45 days for any space junk to burn... be tracked, much research is needed to help mitigate the burgeoning space junk problem that litters the space so close to our...
